Lib Dems mark final night of conference with a very sweary song about Brexit

If there’s 1 contented that gets the famously middle-of-the-road Liberal Democrats worked up, it’s Brexit.

At respective events implicit the 4 days of the party’s league successful Brighton, leaders and MPs person been pressed connected wherefore they’re not pushing the Labour government harder connected perchance rejoining the EU.

But obscurity was that connection delivered much succinctly than astatine the accepted last nighttime ‘Glee Club’ lawsuit connected Monday.

Accompanied by piano, Lib Dem activists, affiliates, MSPs and MPs sang to the tune of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ from Mary Poppins:

“We had a referendum once, it didn’t spell our way
And folks were mostly unaware of what we had to say
Until 1 time we learned that they each listened erstwhile we cursed:
If ‘b******s’ wins america 2nd place, past what volition marque america first?

“It’s ‘B******s-bloody-b****r-knackers-f***ing-c*** to Brexit’
We’ll permission them successful nary uncertainty that we’re the enactment that rejects it
When you curse similar dockers you cognize everyone respects it
‘B******s-bloody-b****r-knackers-f***ing-c*** to Brexit’“

The Glee Club nighttime offers an accidental for the enactment faithful to bask a boozy singalong to immoderate of the 111 tunes successful the ‘Liberator Song Book’ – a spin-off from the namesake wide magazine.

A fewer of the satirical songs successful the pamphlet day backmost to the 19th period and notation figures similar William Gladstone and Lord Salisbury, but determination are galore caller additions astir much modern events.

They see ditties with titles similar ‘The Twelve Days of Coalition’ and ‘Guide Me O Thou Great Theresa’, arsenic good arsenic an ‘Ode to Liz Truss’ to the tune of Let It Be. (Lettuce Liz, Lettuce Liz, Lettuce Liz, Lettuce Liz – outlasted by a lettuce, Lettuce Liz.)

At the other extremity of the spectrum to the explicit Brexit opus supra – officially named ‘Who Swears, Wins’ – was an unapologetically corny mentation of Cliff Richard’s opus Congratulations:

“Our person Ed helium fooled astir to get attention!
The British nationalist enactment aged Rishi successful detention!
Farage felt cheated due to the fact that MPs helium wanted much of.
Whilst Prime Minister Starmer, crept done the backmost door!

“Congratulations and celebrations, the Liberal Democrats person 72 MPs!”

After 4 days of panels, speeches, debates and photograph ops successful the Brighton sunshine, the Lib Dem league comes to an extremity aboriginal today.

Leader Sir Ed Davey, who did not look to beryllium successful attendance astatine the Glee Club, volition instrumentality to the signifier for the closing code astatine astir 2.20pm – with rumours of a last sporty stunt successful the works beforehand.

He made a melodramatic entranceway to the league connected Saturday, riding a pitchy skis into Brighton Marina flanked by 4 of his recently elected MPs.

After drying disconnected and changing retired of his wetsuit, Davey told Metro.co.uk: ‘Everyone’s precise excited, having had our champion predetermination results for implicit 100 years.

’72 MPs that we achieved for section radical is the champion effect for the Liberal oregon Liberal Democrat enactment since 1923, truthful we deliberation we tin get our dependable heard to run connected things similar NHS and care.’

Those topics person travel up repeatedly successful authoritative events astatine the conference, with lawman person Daisy Cooper revealing for the archetypal clip how adjacent she came to death owed to her Crohn’s illness successful a code yesterday.

Davey is expected to heavy absorption his ain code connected the wellness work and societal attraction too, aft that attack paid dividends for his enactment connected July 4.

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