The rich, the rich, we gotta get ridda the rich
I was talking about Conservatives looking for certainty. The Socialist Workers have it in spades.
OK, they're going back a couple of decades, if not a century, for their inspiration, but listening to the chants outside the Metropole Hotel on Brighton seafront it was really wierd to hear such venom sounding so jolly.
No ifs, no buts, no education cuts! When they say cut back, we say fight back! Job cuts, no way, tax the rich and make them pay!And then of course that classic, that even makes the assembled Conservatives smile, reprised just for old times sake.
Maggie Maggie Maggie - out out out!
The constant repetition dulls the impact. Even freshly minted topical numbers seemed to miss the target.
Eton boys, Off our streets!
They're singing to themselves, I suppose. But they really know the beat. Eurovision perhaps?
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