Morrissey Might Run for Mayor of London

Published Mar 04, 2016

After recently getting into a public spat with Supreme over a photo campaign, Morrissey is apparently ready to put up a fight as a potential mayoral candidate in London. The UK singer is reportedly considering an invitation to run this spring as a candidate for the Animal Welfare Party As fan site True to You reports, Morrissey was invited by the party to consider running as a candidate. He would need 330 signatures of support to do so before entering the election campaign. The election itself will be held May 5.A statement Morrissey gave tosuggests he is, at the every least, thinking about how animal rights should affect politics. A noted activist, Morrissey explained that a political dialogue needs to be started in regards to the ties between animal welfare, slaughterhouses, the meat industry, and climate change."The meat industry, after all, shows no compassion towards the planet, towards climate change, towards animals, towards human health," he wrote. "It is diabolically contrived and is the world's number one problem. It is also the number one issue stifled from any political debate, which, if anything, highlights its importance."Morrissey's position on animal rights has been well-known for decades, from the lyrics to early Smiths' songs like "Meat is Murder," to his work with PETA, to a continued Canadian concert boycott over the seal hunt Fittingly, the potential Animal Welfare Candidate semi-recently proclaimed oncut "Earth is the Loneliest Planet": "humans are not really very humane."Whether or not Morrissey will officially enter the race and become a candidate is unclear, but you'll find his statement in full below: