Stormzy is the new Bono

Stormzy has a song called Shut Up. ‘Oi rudeboy, shut up’, he raps. I wish he’d take his own advice. His predictable political musings are getting boring. His Corbyn cheering went down like a cup of cold sick with the populace. And his chattering-class views are just embarrassing for someone who claims to be grime. It’s time for a temporary vow of silence, Stormzy.

His latest ‘controversial’ utterance came at his former primary school. He told a bunch of seven-year-olds there that their new PM, Boris Johnson, is a ‘very, very bad man’. In response to one of the kids who asked him why he doesn’t like Boris — one of Stormzy’s best-known lyrics is ‘Fuck the government / Fuck Boris’ — Stormzy likened the PM to ‘the big, bad wolf’.

In one sense, this all feels entirely fitting. It sums up the infantile moralism of much of the pro-Corbyn camp who really did develop a fairytale view of the world in which Jezza was an allotment-tending Santa Claus figure come to save the poor from their own stupidity, while Boris was basically a blonde, British Hitler who would close all libraries, starve the poor and make it the law to always refer to women in niqabs as letterboxes.