Stipe to quit US if McCain is elected

01/09/2008 - 19:17:35
REM frontman Michael Stipe has threatened to quit America if Senator John McCain is elected President.

The singer - who has recorded a song for McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama - will move to the UK if America picks the Republican candidate at the upcoming November elections.

Stipe says: "He served his country and he did a good job as a serviceman, I will honour him for that, but he is not presidential material."

He adds: "I'd have to move to England".