English rock musician, singer-songwriter, and composer Roger Waters attends a photocall for the film"Roger Waters Us + Them" presented out of competition on September 6, 2019 during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. Picture: Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP
The singer said Johnson and other populist leaders like Donald Trump are hell-bent on destroying the planet as a movie of his latest world tour, “Us + Them” — which highlighted the plight of migrants — was premiered at the Venice film festival. British-born Waters, a long-time supporter of left-wing causes, told AFP that Johnson “fits all the fascist paradigms. He is a larger-than-life buffoon totally uninterested in anything beyond how can he can get power.
But the writer of such classic protest songs as “The Wall” said none of the wave of populist leaders across Europe were capable of feeling “for a fellow human being.“[Matteo] Salvini has no love in his heart,” Waters added, in a swipe at Italy’s former far-right interior minister. “Neither does Boris Johnson, neither does Donald Trump,” he said.
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