My daughter, Hannah, asked me about 'the old days'! About Margarate Thatcher, unemployment queues and so on.
I told her about the song 'Enola Gay', which really switched me on to politics.
I told her about the 'Thatcher milk snatcher'; the miners' strikes, (xref'ing to 'Billy Elliot'). I told her about UB40s and then UB40's song '1 in 10'. She felt that not a lot had seemed to change, but that there were lots of good things in the world and the Green Party seemed really hopeful about the future.
When I go out to GP meetings or doorknocking, we often joke, (whilst I stand in Superman flying pose), - "There goes Supermum...changing the world one person or doorstep at a time!"
We talked a lot and this, (in the run up to last year's elections), was the result. This encapsulates why I do what I do and who I do it for. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDAS9vC5V-8&feature=feedwll
I told her about the song 'Enola Gay', which really switched me on to politics.
I told her about the 'Thatcher milk snatcher'; the miners' strikes, (xref'ing to 'Billy Elliot'). I told her about UB40s and then UB40's song '1 in 10'. She felt that not a lot had seemed to change, but that there were lots of good things in the world and the Green Party seemed really hopeful about the future.
When I go out to GP meetings or doorknocking, we often joke, (whilst I stand in Superman flying pose), - "There goes Supermum...changing the world one person or doorstep at a time!"
We talked a lot and this, (in the run up to last year's elections), was the result. This encapsulates why I do what I do and who I do it for. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDAS9vC5V-8&feature=feedwll
Enola Gay, great song. Used to listen to it under the covers. Educational too. As is this, perhaps the 'best' song written about that period, or any period. Amazing that a song about Anne Frank, Eichmann and the holocaust could be so beautiful...
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Thanks for that; I wouldn't have expected a folk-style to work, but I found it very moving.
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