Morrissey Is Considering Running For Mayor of London

Derrick Rossignol
Mar 5, 2016 Image via DIY

Boris Johnson has been the mayor of London, England since 2008, but he is not running for a third term in the upcoming mayoral election on May 5. This means one less roadblock for Morrissey’s pursuit of the office.

According to fan zine True To You, Morrissey “has been invited to become the London Mayoral candidate for the Animal Welfare Party” and would need 330 signatures in order to enter the race. Morrissey provided a comment to the site that begins:

He goes on to write about how the meat industry “shows no compassion towards the planet, towards climate change, towards animals, towards human health,” and says that “Social justice for animals is not much to demand, because we are only asking humans to think rationally and with heart.
[null, {"document_url": "https://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2016/03/morrissey-is-thinking-about-running-for-mayor-of-london", "unformatted_src": "https://images.complex.com/complex/r7crq5hkta0vyngf8gp4.jpg", "src": "https://images.complex.com/complex/r7crq5hkta0vyngf8gp4.jpg", "formatted_filename": "r crq hkta vyngf gp", "alt_text": "Image via DIY", "rendered_width": 600, "rendered_height": 400}, null]