The Red Flag's flagging a bit... Lol.

[Guest]

Oh dear. Excruciating! The commie anthem in its worst ever performance. And Ed doesn't know the words.

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I didn't dare listen to them with Jerusalem!

[amateur51]

Not a patch on this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIwBvjoLyZc

[Chris Newman]

Commie Anthem? I thought it was a German Christmas song about a tree. Hey ho.....Maybe they'll do better another day.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ammy I knew that link was to Redwood! But I think the Labour fiasco shades it ! The flutes at the beginning of Jerusalem....

[Simon]

I might have known that amateur would link to Redwood - the facile knee-jerk that one would expect.

But let us not forget that Land of my Fathers was being sung in a foreign language that few outside Wales have the chance to learn - and many in Wales don't know. Yes, Redwood should have been prepared for the anthem, but in reality no big deal. Better to have respectfully kept his mouth shut though, IMO.

But even I know the words to the Red Flag! And to the alternative version.

[amateur51]

I might have known that amateur would link to Redwood - the facile knee-jerk that one would expect.

But let us not forget that Land of my Fathers was being sung in a foreign language that few outside Wales have the chance to learn - and many in Wales don't know. Yes, Redwood should have been prepared for the anthem, but in reality no big deal. Better to have respectfully kept his mouth shut though, IMO.

But even I know the words to the Red Flag! And to the alternative version.

Welsh is not, of course, a foreign language but one of several languages spoken within the United Kingdom

[Nick Armstrong]

I might have known that amateur would link to Redwood - the facile knee-jerk that one would expect.

Take a chill pill Simon. Redwood makes just as big a knob of himself as Ed squared and their gang.

Amateur's clip is the perfect counterpoint - what the Labourists achieve in sheer cloth-eared lack of musicality, Redwood matches in head-wagging extraterrestrial creepiness

[mercia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpTeSETtMls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pYYVPLchg

[Bryn]

Welsh is not, of course, a foreign language but one of several languages spoken within the United Kingdom

Oh but "Welsh" is, by etymology, foreign, is it not?


As to the Tory-lite rendition of The Red Flag (words, at least, originating on a train journey for London's Charing Cross to New Cross in 1899) to the wrong music (it was written to be sung to The White Cockade), it was pretty much par for the course.

http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/songs/rf-wc-dg.mp2

[vinteuil]

Oh but "Welsh" is, by etymology, foreign, is it not?

ah, Bryn - but for the Welsh, Welsh isn't "Welsh"...

[Bryn]

ah, Bryn - but for the Welsh, Welsh isn't "Welsh"...

Come to think of it, if 'Simon' is indeed a native of the Peak District, he may well be somewhat Wilisc himself, the "Peak" of "Peak District" relating to "Pict" rather than anything to do with the hilly topography of the area.

[MickyD]

Oh dear. Excruciating! The commie anthem in its worst ever performance. And Ed doesn't know the words.

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I didn't dare listen to them with Jerusalem!

Definitely the best laugh I've had for ages - and if you look carefully, I am pretty sure that even the normally po-faced Harriet Harman is having difficulty stifling a laugh. Who in their right mind decided on these performers?

[Mandryka]

That performance suggests the performers are taking some kind of personal revenge on the song/tune.

Surprised that they still drag this one out....Labour, as a Party, long ago distanced itself from the sentiments expressed in it.

I believe the Liberals sing a dreary dirge called 'The Land' at their conference, but the Tories don't have any kind of 'theme tune.'

[greenilex]

But Ed knows the difference between "will" and "shall" and I respect him for it.

[french frank]

I believe the Liberals sing a dreary dirge called 'The Land' at their conference

A militant battle song, not a dirge, usually sung at the evening 'glee'. It's a call for a Land Value Tax: the land belongs to the people, so those who have use of it (temporary 'owners') should pay rent to the community for it. Good stuff (much harder for the wealthy to move it abroad) - it probably isn't sung any more musically though with a lot of raucous enthusiasm drowning out the quavery octogenarian cradle Liberals who've been singing it since birth and still come to conference