It's not awful, but it's definitely one of the weaker songs on the album. Considering the strength of some of the B-Sides, this should definitely not have made the cut, as it ends up being total filler material. The guitar riff is decent enough, but it gets very repetitive. Lyrically, it's Morrissey on autopilot, and contains one of his worst ever couplets:
"I've had my face dragged in
Fifteen miles of shit...."
OK - this is a strong opening, where are you going with this Moz - what clever way are you going to resolve this statement?
"And I do not -
and I do not -
And I do not like it"
Uh.
Not just the lamest ever rhyme of 'shit' with 'it', but you have to randomly repeat words to even make it fit? This from someone once considered a poet from the Smiths days? It's doggerel at this point. Even Johnny Marr would be embarrassed by something this lyrically clumsy.
It also ends on a bad note, by coming to a crescendo with -
"And as for you in your uniform
Your smelly uniform
And so you think you can be rude to me'
Sure, I get that no-one can ultimately know another person's true nature, but Morrissey isn't campaigning against some giant evil entity here, or singing a song from the viewpoint of some war oppressed innocent - going by the interviews from around the time he's angry because airport officials get to tell him where to stand. Coming from a man in late-middle age, it just feels like the whining of a self-obsessed manbaby. You had the nerve to write a song complaining about something this trivial - really?
[6 out of 10]