It's an August bank holiday weekend, so please forgive me a short, tenuous post linking politics and popular culture.
Oasis have always enjoyed being compared to the Beatles. So how's about this for a parallel?
The Beatles came to prominence in 1963 and a year later a Labour Government was elected, with the band coming to represent the spirit of the Swinging Sixties. The Labour Prime Minister even arranged for them to be awarded MBEs - although John Lennon later returned his in protest at the Government's foreign policy. Paul McCartney quit the band in April 1970, and just over a month later the Labour Government was thrown out of office at a general election.
Oasis came to prominence in the mid-1990s, and after a Labour Government was elected in 1997, they were deemed to be ambassadors for what the new regime branded Cool Britannia. The Labour Prime Minister even invited them to a party a Downing Street, although Noel Gallagher later attacked the Government over the Iraq War. Today Noel Gallagher has quit the band... and here's hoping it's not too long before the current Labour Government is given its marching orders..
That said, I dare say there can't be too much which occurred under the Conservative Government elected in 1970 which a potential Cameron Government should be seeking to emulate...
