Old friend of this blog, Mark Northfield, has written a swansong for the Tories:
As Mark says of this:
It's the end of an era here in the UK and as the Tories circle the electoral plughole ever faster I felt like marking the occasion with a new release, accompanied by a 'closing credits' video for 2010-2024. What a time that was.
The music is (largely) an arrangement of Rossini's William Tell galop and the lyrics taken from a brave, excoriating and still responant tweet sent out via the official UK Civil Service account in summer 2020, shortly after the Cummings Barnard Castle affair.
The original version was one in a multi-year series of anti-Brexit/anti-populist satirical mash-ups (you can find a playlist of them on my YT channel, linked above) which I bashed out at home in an attempt to process the ongoing shitshow and find some kind of creative cathartic release.
This perky and properly recorded new arrangement is performed by me with my trio Cherry Mint Koala, featuring fruity vocal assistance from good eggs The Cavendishies.
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I enjoyed this! Celebrating the Tory’s greatest failures is strangely exhilarating especially when set to Rossini’s William Tell.
Rossini retired aged 40 both insanely poular and insanely rich and made a virtue of never having to do another day’s work. If he were alive in the UK today he would vote Tory or Remain. He definitely would not approve of his music being used in this way which is something else I find perversely satisfying.
That’s neat
Do you know what Don Maclean said of American Pie when asked what the lyrics meant? He said they meant he’d never have to work again.
Will there be any Tories left to “fight back” and will they have anything to “fight back” with?
With regards to a comment on another thread (I cannot remember which one), a devastating Tory lost might make proportional representation an future reality. Do the Tories have any weapons remaining in there arsenal?
I personally doubt it
I think there will be a rump left, but as a party of government I doubt it can recover from this
That is the necessary precursor for the rise of a replacement
I am reminded of what Jeremy Paxman asked Michael Portillo on the evening of the 1997 election : “are we seeing the end of the Conservative party as a credible force in British politics?”
They remained below 200 seats until 2010.