Oasis man McGee turns back on Labour

Alan McGee (pictured), the rock music impresario who gave the world Oasis, has long been a supporter of the Labour Party, even attending Tony Blair's infamous ‘Cool Britannia’ post-election 1997 party at Downing Street. Now it seems he's become a Tory convert.

"I hope Labour get fucking stuffed the way they've fucked this country up. They're a bunch of retards," the Scotsman told the Sunday Times. "Do I think Cameron would do a better job? Undoubtedly. Could the Tories do any worse than this bunch of cretins that we've got in now? Labour are monumentally useless. Gordon Brown has had a charisma bypass. He's a fucking diabolical prime minister and the country is in a mess."

But the Tories can't expect any help from McGee anytime soon. He told the Times last week: "The Tories once tried to recruit me on a beach on Nevis in the Caribbean. This guy, I think he writes for newspapers, Daniel Finkelstein or something, came on up and said: 'You're that Alan McGee'. 'I said, 'Aye I'm that Alan McGee' and he went, 'You'd be a good MP'. I thought, God, if I'm your best bet for an MP you're in trouble."

Finkelstein, a former advisor to John Major and William Hague who now earns his crust as chief leader writer and columnist for the Times, has a different take on the encounter. He said: "I didn't try to recruit McGee – he wanted me to replace Liam in Oasis."