That wasn't very socialist of you, Michael Eavis — avoiding inheritance tax is hypocritical
Eavis and Glastonbury are — in case you've been living under a rock for the past 55 years — by-words for socialist principles. Raised in a working-class Methodist farming family, Eavis has maintained working for social good is what 'gets me up in the morning'. As he told the BBC in 2018, he is more concerned with his legacy being 'what I've done for humanity than what I've done for myself'. He refers to 'my socialism,' in interviews. And this is the festival, lest we forget, that became synonymous with the chant 'oh Jeremy Corbyn'.
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