LABOUR MPs were reminded of the impact of their assault on social security as a veteran Westminster protester added a new song to his repertoire.
Steve Bray – AKA Stop Brexit Man – blasts music from a sound system outside the UK Parliament most Wednesdays, including his own take on The Beatles’s Yellow Submarine with the lyrics changed to “we all live in a Brexit tragedy”.
But this week, apparently in light of Labour’s push to take money out of the pockets of some of the poorest people in society, he’s added a new song to his setlist.
MPs were blasted with the Dead Kennedys’s Kill the Poor.
Never one to turn up the chance to savage Keir Starmer’s pro-Brexit austerity government, Bray played the 1980 hardcore punk song in the morning before this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
That session saw Diane Abbott chastise the PM for referring to his quest to slash the welfare budget as a “moral” mission – telling him: “This is not about morality, this is about the Treasury’s wish to balance the country’s books on the back of the most vulnerable and poor people in this society.”
The song puts it in even blunter terms with the lyrics: “No more welfare tax to pay/Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light/Jobless millions whisked away/At last we have more room to play/All systems go to kill the poor tonight”.
