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Thread #93653   Message #3447277
Posted By: Jack Campin
05-Dec-12 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: Songs & Jingles in Political Campaigns
Subject: RE: Songs & Jingles in Political Campaigns
From an election campaign in East Lothian, Scotland, in 1978ish. To the tune of "Brown Girl in the Ring" which was a hit in the UK at the time.

John Hume Robertson, he's the man for us
John Hume Robertson, he's the man for us
John Hume Robertson, he's the man for us
And he lives in a big house too!

Robertson was a local landowner who was standing for the Labour Party (i.e. what we would now call a "champagne socialist"). The big issue locally was whether the Torness nuclear power plant would be constructed (I was in East Lothian campaigning against it). Robertson was all for it, as was the Callaghan Labour government of the time.