Posted on 09/10/2019 10:24:29 AM PDT by RummyChick
Labour MPs held an impromptu socialist singalong in the Commons this morning as they boycotted the prorogation ceremony in protest at Boris Johnson's decision to shut down parliament ahead of Brexit.
In scenes captured on video by shadow minister Danielle Rowley they sang the protest song The Red Flag which is the party anthem and is usually performed at the end of each of its annual conferences.
Its lyrics hail the fight for workers' rights, saying it was used to shroud the bodies of 'our martyred dead'. In the footage the MPs could be heard singing the chorus lines: 'Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.'
The Midlothian MP said: 'I know you’re not meant to film in the chamber, but everyone on the opposition benches is singing and this moment was beautiful.'
They performed the song after Tory MPs and the Speaker John Bercow had gone to the House of Lords to hear the proclamation of the prorogation decision read out.
It shut down parliament for five weeks, with MPs not due to sit again until October 14.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Bizzare? Not for them it’s not.
Yeah. What the US needs is a parliamentary system just like the UK!
Says many idiots.
Yeah. What the US needs is a parliamentary system just like the UK!
Says many idiots.
Looks like the Soviet Union’s dreams are finally coming true. And the idiots touting communism today (socialism at gunpoint) across the west are too blind and stupid to see the abject failure of it wherever its tried.
Not bizarre. They just scratched the paint revealing the red underneath.
The word “parallel” comes to mind here.
Oh, gee. Our rat commie Hussein Heads in congress are next.
Actually, maybe not. Too confusing for them. They love commies, but accuse Trump of doing so, too.
Mask? What mask?
Full Blown Marxists.
> it was used to shroud the bodies of ‘our martyred dead‘ <
By ‘martyred dead’ is he including all the innocents killed by Stalin and Mao? Just curious.
Philby, Burgess, MacLean, Cairncross, and
Blunt, all traitors, all KGB agents prepared the groundwork for this moment.
Britain WILL leave the EU on October 31 says top Boris Johnson aide Dominic Cummings as he tells reporters to get out of London and ‘go to talk to people who are not rich Remainers’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7447253/Britain-leave-EU-October-31-says-Boris-Johnson-aide-Dominic-Cummings.html
People claiming to represent the working class never really do, they represent their own interests. These Comrades should be reminded of how Labour’s polity actually voted in the referendum, and come the next election they will be.
‘Dominic Grieve can f*** off’: Downing Street is on a collision course with Remainer MPs after they demand access to the personal mobile phones of Number 10 aides in bid to prove Brexit ‘conspiracy theory’
Tell me again why we’re defending this decrepit, rundown, bygone shell of a “nation” now run by pasty faced Socialists and Pakistani Muslim terrorists?
You mean it wasn’t The Internationale?..............
Evil people
I’ve given up trying to follow politics over there.
I don’t understand it at all.
I just go by what knowledgeable Freepers post.
They think they’re in the driver’s seat.
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