Great Tories in Pop Songs

[Gangster Octopus]

The Jam - Eden Rifles

[Snake Plissken]

Pull Shapps - The Pipettes
Grant Shapps Has Many Faces - Joni Mitchell

You could go with so many for him... "Who Do You Think You Are?", "The Pretender"...

[wittoner]

Making Plans for Nigel Lawson By eX Tory Chancellor

[Satchmo Distel]

Can't Help Fallon in Gove - Elvis Presley

Gene Pittney the Younger

You Winston Again - Hot Chocolate

Disraeli Gears - Cream

Alan Sugar Walls - Sheena Eden

[ad hoc]

An actual appearance

"Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies/ In a box on Beasley Street."

[Satchmo Distel]

"Mr Wilson, Mr Heath" in Taxman, which The Jam recycled as Start.

[G-Man]

(Struggling with the word 'great' in the header, but there we are...)

Purely for the sake of convention, with a slight nod to the absurdity of considering "great" any of the fuckers who'll get a mention here by way of making fun of their names. And, indeed, the absurdity of considering any Tory "great" (other, maybe, than Churchill in his quipmeistering Adolf-beating incarnation).

[Kevin S]

I Am The WalTruss - The Beatles

[Kevin S]

Howard You Feel (Paean) - Ed Sheeran

[Kevin S]

I'm Gummer Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

[Jah Womble]

Or maybe 'Gummer the First Time'..?

Purely for the sake of convention, with a slight nod to the absurdity of considering "great" any of the fuckers who'll get a mention here by way of making fun of their names. And, indeed, the absurdity of considering any Tory "great" (other, maybe, than Churchill in his quipmeistering Adolf-beating incarnation).

Fair dos - I was briefly looking for a 'Great Stories in Pop Songs' thread, on the assumption that this one might be a tribute.

[wittoner]

EU really got me - featuring that seminal guitar riff by David Davies.

[Mumpo]

I Wish It Could Be Rees-Mogg Every Day

[Gerontophile]

Hong Kong Patten by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Werrity by Steve Winwood

Pull Up To George Younger, Baby by Grace Jones

Some Candy Tom King by Jesus and Mary Chain

[Mumpo]

And Tebbit Goes On

[Mr Cogito]

My Maudling Career - Camera Obscura
Late night, Maudling Street - Morrissey

etc etc

Kinky reggie - Bob Marley
Reggie Maudling - UB40
Here Comes (Johnny) Reggie Maudling - The fuckin tory Piglets

ad infinitum

[Gangster Octopus]

I've spent all day trying to think of a Reggie Maudling one...

[Gangster Octopus]

The Detroit Emeralds - Feel Airey Neave In Me

[Mr Cogito]

I've spent all day trying to think of a Reggie Maudling one...

And bizarrely I spent yesterday thinking of Reginald Maudling, via Monty Python and a sketch about Enfield ("We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the bombing. Sorry, Enfield. Sorry").

[Antepli Ejderha]

Heseltine and Wine by Cliff Richard

[Gerontophile]

Touch Me In The Maudling by Diana Ross

[Artificial Hipster]

Charles & Eddie - Amber Rudd, "I Lie To You"

Small Faces - Itchycoo Parkinson

And a whole album's worth from Pink Floyd - UmmaSelwynGumma

[Snake Plissken]

Judas Priest - Breaking The Lawson
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lamont
Phil Collins - You Can't Currie Gove

[Satchmo Distel]

Sara in the Keays of Life

[Jah Womble]

Charles & Eddie - Amber Rudd, "I Lie To You"

Eh?