not being the man that they want him to be.

So, it turns out that they thought he was the new Billy Bragg, but he isn't so the writer has decided to have a needy tantrum over it. Then instead of asking Frank about it they've recycled some old interviews that they've googled and part of a blog he's written trying to get his own side over after (I assume) an evening of twitter whinging from other 'betrayed' crybabies.

Guardian Music is usually pretty poor but this really is a terrible tabloidy attempt at manufacturing a scandal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/sep/04/frank-turner-right-wing?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9385

http://frank-turner.com/blog/2012/09/schmolitics/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/05/frank-turner-im-not-a-tory