So Theresa May is delaying any decisive votes AGAIN, until practically the last minute, and it leads me, amid frustration and biting of knuckles, to think of suitable music.
Give Me Just A Little More Time
(Back)Stop in the Name of Gove
It’s Impossible
Making Your Mind Up
are just a few of the songs that came to mind.
You no doubt will have more. Also what strategies are you employing to keep calm during the political storm? Personally I am listening to an extremely soapy audiobook set in Chile, with all the depth of a puddle, but it goes on for 22 hours and is very soothing in its flowery predictable prose.
One for March 30th:
How about You can’t always get what you want?
The Sounds of silence.
Waiting in vain.
My favourite CAN track is Mother Sky and it’s Kicking!
Someone read from a Can biography in the latest edition of the Afterword pod. Just saying.
I intend to listen to that podcast when I next have a bath.
Ooh! Now, when I’m listening, I’ll be imagining you all soaped up Tiggs! (*flushes*)
Billy Bragg’s Waiting For The Great Leap Forward or, depending on your point of view, a song not by Billy Bragg…. Waiting For The Great Leap Backwards.
Or Billy’s version of Which Side Are You On?
Or Billy’s song Between the wars
“Then one day it happened.
She cut all her ties to the European Union and I stopped lovin’ ‘er…”
A Leaver (not Pajp) sings:
“Get your own free trade deal,
And cut out the middle man.”
Take It to the Limit by The Eagles or 11.59 by Blondie or
It’s The End of The World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine. No Really I’m Fine. I’m FINE. I’ve said I’m Fine, Now Stop Asking) by ERG
State of preparedness; every morning I wake up believing that everyone knows how bad No Deal would be and it can’t possibly happen. The adults in the Labour Party will move St Jeremy to a second referendum / remain and reform platform, there will be a delay and a public vote on May’s deal. But then I open my work emails and by lunchtime I believe the two main parties are complicit in a form of deliberate neglect that will starve the poorest and most needy and make austerity look like Christmas.
But hey, thanks to our leaders’ other neglected responsibility it’s 20degC in February, so at least they’ll die warm.
Obvious, really. For (all?) our beloved in HMG:
Worry makes me physically ill. It raises my stress levels and causes high blood pressure, IBS etc.
I know I can’t change anything, so I just read about it and then get on with my life.
only one thing really :
I agree with Chiz. They are bound to come to their senses before it is too late. Surely?
The ‘Orrible ‘Oo from 1977 may help you to channel your feelings of anger and frustration.
Sizzlingly magnificent.
We just haven’t got a clue what to do……
From the same authors
The Who – Were Not Gonna Take It
We’re not gonna take it
Never did and never will
We’re not gonna take it
Gonna break it, gonna shake it
Let’s forget it better still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtEdsntCPzY
and there’s always a nice bit of hair metal expressing the same sentinent
Twisted Sister
On March 30th, Theresa May springs boldly into action and follows David Cameron into the great bin of disgrace.
The song lyrics don’t fit with the situation but I’m sure we’ll all be dancing the Masochism Tango soon.
Although Theresa May is in Egypt today, her latest statement about being focused to leave on 29th and that a deal is “within our grasp” rather suggests she is actually with Dusty, In the Land of Make Believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwa0QL0Vps
“Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun” anybody?
It’s a good time to revive Roy Harper’s Referendum.
Originally dedicated to Harold Wilson at the time of the first European referendum, there are resonances today.
Genesis – Throwing It All Away
Chris Farlowe – Out Of Time
The Road to Nowhere
Time Is Tight
No Regrets (?)
Two thing have always struck me about that album cover:
A) That’s not Scott’s first can of Dog, judging by the fact he has mysteriously taken his shirt off
b) Gary looks like Mike Dixon from Brookside.
Something’s Gone Wrong Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Lb-JhsaEk
See also :
Surprised no one has posted this..!?
For Jeremy’s latest Referendum announcement, People Get Ready and Steely Dan’s Do It Again. For the ERG (and a lot of people at the moment, though I think that will change in coming days and weeks) I Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty.
The Flaming Lips have a lot to offer here.
Race for the Prize encapsulates Tess’s determination to deliver Brexit
And then of course there’s Mayshimi battles the Pink Robots
Time for a song by The Cooper Boles Amendment… sorry, The Cooper Temple Clause
Video (starring Michael Fassbender) oddly appropriate. Warning: contains goat.