Moz turned down an offer to broadcast his own televised Christmas message.

Opinionated crooner Morrissey has declined an offer from UK television station Channel 4 to write an “alternative Christmas speech” that would have been broadcast at the same time as The Queen’s traditional annual address.

Morrissey’s back catalogue contains a number of songs that demonstrate his disdain for the monarchy, something that the former Smiths frontman has never hidden. Morrissey told True to You that he declined the offer in the spirit of the festive season:

My view that the monarchy should be quietly dismantled for the good of England is reasonably well-known, but I don’t think Christmas Day is quite the time to be trading slaps. The Queen should be allowed the impassioned trance of her annual address to the British people, if only to once again prove that, in her frozen posture, she has nothing to offer and nothing to say, and she has no place in modern Britain except as a figure of repression; no independent thought required. The Queen very well might be the most powerful woman in England, but she lacks the power to make herself loved, and the phony inflation of her family attacks all rational intellect.

All over the world highly civilized peoples exist without the automatic condescension of a ‘royal’ family. England can do the same, and will find more respect for doing so.

In other Moz-related news, the singer has revealed that he will begin recording a new album early next year. Unperturbed by this year’s ordeal with former label Harvest and his own health issues, Morrissey told Serbian radio station B92 that he’s already got an album’s worth of songs written and plans to begin recording in February. [via Brooklyn Vegan / Stereogum]