This seems like a song for this election.
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There seems to be a messianic fervor amongst the electorate for Johnson. No matter how manifest his inadequacies, his failures and his dishonesty, they are unshaken in their belief that when he is elected, he will command the sick to be well, the hungry shall feast on manna, and the sky will be a field of rainbows.
Nothing worse than buyer’s remorse when the product can’t be returned.
I fear that
… I Can’t Explain…
Love the song. Love the story behind the video.
The band went to Daytona Beach with two dozen friends on Spring Vacation and ‘spent much of the budget on alcohol, buying so much that they broke their hotel’s elevator trying to lift it. They shot the video in the afternoon so that they could recover from hangovers in the morning and drink in the evening. The scenes were shot without a script or storyboard.’
Canadian Legends.
Canadian??
Richard seems to have posted the song by Len, ‘Steal my sunshine’. (They are Canadian.)
No idea what went wrong there
Seemed to work anyway.
“..No idea what went wrong there.”
Corbyn! Must have been. (We know Emmanuel Goldstein is only a fictional character, so it must have been Corbyn. QED)
Kind of an ideal Consensus anthem we can all get behind, whatever our views.
Everyone feels the words apply.
(Especially Roger Daltry! He’s fiercely pro Brexit, calling the EU “a f***ing mafia”.)
Unfortunately Roger Daltrey is more likely to vote Tory if anything:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/roger-daltrey-brexit-pro-why-jeremy-corbyn-politics-new-album-the-who-a8378986.html
Johnson also used The Who’s Baba O’Riley as the intro music to his speech at the Tory Party Conference last month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUAReeUxIk
Pete Townshend apparently voted remain, though.
I was liking the sentiment of one song
You are quite within your right to like the sentiment.
The question for me is, ‘How many more times have the electorate been fooled since 2010, and between 1979 and 2007 by the Tories??
Too many times Richard, far too many times. And it could happen again.
🙂
Apologies, I didn’t mean to sound critical of your post. I have always loved the song and completely agree with the sentiment. I just found it depressing to see the Who’s music becoming associated with Brexit and Johnson by other people.
I agree
A well known economics editor has accused me of being a mod after all…..
A sign?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/18/boris-johnson-lying-media
When the Guardian publishes such an article that almost suggests traditional tory voters should consider Labour?
I also read somewhere this week Murdoch suggesting Corbyns Labour may not be such a disaster.
The Cabinet Office gets the real polls.
I consider the untimely call me ‘Prince’ Andy panto to be a’deadcat thrown on the table ‘ gambit. Desperate.
Don’t just pray. Encourage as many of the shire folk to register. Make them actually turn up and vote on the 12th. Hope they base it on the manifesto choices. Hope that ballot stuffing is curtailed. We may have a Friday the 13th to celebrate from now on.
Onivar. No pasaran.
As an aside the Joe website have come up with some wonderful music parodies on our current times.
They can all be found on this Youtube list and while they help lighten our times the truth is never far away.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZyPqYz41qavAvZnwcfxvo2PAO8faOHuF
I’ll take a look
Do!
Check out ‘Monster Crash’, ‘No Surprises’ and ‘Common People’.
They’d be even funnier if none of it were true!!
🙂