{"id":481983,"date":"2019-02-08T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=791897"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:36:31","slug":"thom-yorke-slams-u-k-prime-minister-theresa-may-over-brexit-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/thom-yorke-slams-u-k-prime-minister-theresa-may-over-brexit-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Yorke Slams U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May Over Brexit Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/10040424j.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/thom-yorke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thom-yorke\" data-tag=\"thom-yorke\">Thom Yorke<\/a> lashed out at U.K. prime minister Theresa May and her methods of using \u201cintimidation\u201d and \u201ccausing immense distress and suffering\u201d in order to deliver a Brexit deal.<\/p>\n<p>In the Radiohead singer\u2019s early Friday tweet, he also likened May\u2019s actions to \u201cthe early days of the Third Reich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody voted for you to threaten chaos upon this land in myriad form in order to intimidate citizens and parliament,\u201d Yorke wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody voted for you to drive this red bus over a cliff with the passengers screaming in the back. None of this has been an expression of the democracy you\u2019ve been claiming to uphold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Yorke has employed his Twitter feed to decry May\u2019s tactics, including European Commission president Donald Tusk\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OFOCBrexit\/status\/1093120933420847136\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">special place in hell<\/a>\u201d warning to Brexiters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite major hurdles to clear before May\u2019s appointed March 29th Brexit deadline, the prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theresa_may\/status\/1093565011883188225'\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> Thursday, \u201cI\u2019m clear that I am going to deliver Brexit, I\u2019m going to deliver it on time, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do for the British public \u2013 I\u2019ll be negotiating hard in the coming days to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yorke countered in his tweet, \u201cFear is not a weapon to be used by a UK Prime Minister in the 21st century. Stop the bus\u2026\u2026 now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.2676056338028\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oPW0rhByDm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oPW0rhByDm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomyorke\/status\/1093804570445336576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">February 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/thom-yorke-theresa-may-brexit-791897\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Yorke lashed out at U.K. prime minister Theresa May and her methods of using \u201cintimidation\u201d and \u201ccausing immense distress and suffering\u201d in order to deliver a Brexit deal. In the Radiohead singer\u2019s early Friday tweet, he also likened May\u2019s actions to \u201cthe early days of the Third Reich.\u201d \u201cNobody voted for you to threaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:55:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}