Ding dong about a ding dong

Seems like the right wing are sensitive after all. At least about their own feelings. It must have come as a shock to think that 'feelings' actually existed and were not just a device song writers used. Ah, songwriters, we'll come back to them in a minute.

Parliament was recalled on Wednesday so the politicians could say a few words in remembrance of Mrs T. Bearing in mind that some of those present also were behind her removal from power back in the early 90s. Turns out that MPs could claim £3750 in expenses just for being there. Those last minute flights don't come cheap you know?

And now there is something else for the right wing to get all angry about: not content with arranging celebration street parties the day she died, seems like hundreds of thousands of people have been downloading 'Ding Dong,the Witch is Dead' from the Wizard of Oz soundtrack. So many of them that it is currently at number 3 in the chart. And now the BBC says it will not play the song on their chart rundown on Radio 1 Sunday night in case it offends her family. I can just imagine Mark and Carol tune in to Reggie Yates every week.

I had a barny with one of my contacts on flickr too. I said how I felt, and that I thought the press were being liberal with the truth of her time in power, and just wanted to say it how I saw it. Sadly, it was not taken well. Is itpossible for two reasonable people to see events so differently? I guess it is. One persons heroine is the other's devil incarnate. She divides in death just as she did in life. And now there is the funeral, costing £8,000,000 and with full military honours, whatever that means. That this is going to be a magnet for protesters, now that they know how poorly the right and Tories take criticism.

So, in summary: Judy Garland: gay icon and bête noire of the right.

I guess i would have understood it better if maybe a more socially aware song had been chosen: Shipbuilding by Robert Wyatt, Between the Wars by Billy Bragg, Stand Down Margaret by the (English) Beat or best of all, Ghost Town by the Specials.







Goodnight.