“Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines.”

— Thom Yorke

source http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1736527,00.html
On rejecting the opportunity to meet Tony Blair for a campaign to lobby government to help stop climate change.

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English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

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