{"id":2038452,"date":"2025-09-21T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2038452"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:00:10","slug":"lib-dems-complain-of-unbalanced-reform-media-attention-in-latest-glee-club-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lib-dems-complain-of-unbalanced-reform-media-attention-in-latest-glee-club-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dems complain of unbalanced Reform media attention in latest Glee Club song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyHeadlinesNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM dRzeRr\">Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM knvhy\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM kbCQAZ\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/morningHeadlines1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Morning Headlines\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>A song complaining about the amount of media coverage Nigel Farage\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/reform-uk\">Reform UK<\/a> receives features in the latest songbook for the Liberal Democrats\u2019 traditional end-of-conference bash.<\/p>\n<p>The Impartial Media Song is one of the latest additions to the Liberator Songbook, the bible of lyrics for the Lib Dems\u2019 annual Glee Club party.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night party is seen by many Lib Dem activists as the highlight of the conference, where they sing bawdy lyrics to popular tunes, mocking themselves and other political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics of the latest song, meant to be sung to the tune of traditional song The Wild Rover, complain that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/reform\">Reform<\/a> UK, with its five MPs, get more media attention than the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lib-dems\">Lib Dems<\/a> with their 72 MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The song goes: \u201cI\u2019ve been a broadcaster for many a year; at Liberal leaders I happily sneer; despite them returning with MPs galore; I cover the party in detail no more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s no, nay, never; no, nay, never, no more; will I cover the Lib Dems; no, never, no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song continues to complain that Mr Farage\u2019s party gets covered \u201cin the way that they like\u201d, and likens it to the far-right.<\/p>\n<p>It says: \u201cBut Reform are different, they make a good splash; I\u2019m happy to hear them and cover the fash; Creating the monsters, that\u2019s my job you see; When you can\u2019t defeat them, I\u2019ll blame you with glee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A \u201chistorical note\u201d at the bottom of the song reads: \u201cNot that we\u2019re, entirely justly, annoyed about the disproportionate coverage every news outlet gives to Reform or anything\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior Reform leaders have distanced themselves from far-right figures such as the activist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tommy-robinson\">Tommy Robinson<\/a>, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who led the Unite the Kingdom march through London last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage has also insisted that his party is the only political force holding back wider support for the far-right.<\/p>\n<p>The Lib Dem song \u2013 in a section of the 34th edition of the Liberator Songbook entitled \u201cSongs for journalists to pretend to be offended by\u201d \u2013 continues by suggesting members of the media do not cover the party as its polling is \u201ctoo low\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the book, Lib Dem leader Sir <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ed-davey\">Ed Davey<\/a> is mocked for his record as post office minister between 2010 and 2012 during the Post Office-Horizon scandal, which led thousands of subpostmasters to be wrongly accused of responsibility for financial shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>Postman Ed, intended to be sung to the tune of the Postman Pat theme song, goes: \u201cPostman Ed, Postman Ed; Postman Ed ignored the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEd, he was the minister; Now everything looks sinister; Ed claims he was never told the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song\u2019s second verse describes Sir Ed\u2019s record as \u201csuch an epic fail\u201d, concluding: \u201cEd should go and never lead again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well-known parody lyrics sung by the Lib Dems at their Glee Club party in previous years include the words \u201cLettuce Liz\u201d sung to the tune of The Beatles\u2019 Let it Be.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled An Ode To Liz Truss, the song mocked Ms Truss\u2019s short-lived premiership.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosciutto Affair, sung to the tune of English Country Garden, reached the headlines in 2015 as it made light of the so-called \u201cpig-gate\u201d allegations about former prime minister Lord David Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>Reprinted in this year\u2019s songbook, a note accompanying the lyrics insists the allegations were \u201cmade up by a scurrilous pair of journos\u201d and that Lord Cameron got the \u201clast laugh\u201d as he was elevated to the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Another song which caused controversy in previous years was An Ode To Charles Kennedy, which mocked the late Lib Dem leader\u2019s alcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics remain in the latest edition of the songbook, with a note which states \u201cKennedy himself liked it\u201d, with the author adding: \u201cWe miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A song complaining about the amount of media coverage Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK receives features in the latest songbook for the Liberal Democrats\u2019 traditional end-of-conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lib-Dems-complain-of-unbalanced-Reform-media-attention-in-latest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}