Lib Dem Glee Club

Astoundingly, a real thing that actually exists. Since time immemorial the Liberal Party has ended its conference by getting plastered and having a sing-along of political filksongs, and after the great merger with the SDP the tradition continued, with the addition of a few songs griping about the merger itself. Other popular themes include the Irish Land Acts, how crap the policies of the other parties are, and how crap the Liberal Democrats are at winning elections.

Simon Hughes, Paddy Ashdown, and Tim Farron are regulars. In recent years Nick Clegg has stopped coming, but that's okay. The Glee Club brought their own copy.

As likely to fold in the face of Conservative opposition as the real thing!

Lib Dem Glee Club: you never know who will turn up.

Sometimes they even get someone who can sing.

Every year a new songbook is produced with new songs added and the most irrelevant/unfunny taken out. Below is a collection of some of the best/most important songs sun at Glee Club, taken from the 2010 song book.

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  Front page of the Liberator Song Book (21st edition)

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  Note from Lord Bonkers and a list of all the songs

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  "The Land" and "The Grand Old Chieftan"

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  "The Pink Flag", "Propaganda" and "I've Been A Young Liberal"

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  "Climb Every Staircase" and "Over The Sea To Skye"

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  "Letterboxes"

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  "The Lib-Lab Lie", "Song In Praise Of Charles Kennedy" and "Old Friends"

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  "Commons People", "Twelve Days Of Coalition", "Knock Around The Block" and "Stand By Your Vote"

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  A look back at all the previous Glee Club songbook titles