The BBC is under pressure to play a Christmas number one contender parodying Keir Starmer’s winter fuel cuts by ‘Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers’. The Telegraph has more.
The track by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers, which mocks Labour’s decision to strip millions of pensioners of the benefit, is topping music downloads charts with a week to go before Christmas Day.
However, the musicians behind the hit claim their campaign to get it to number one is being thwarted by radio stations refusing to play it.
The BBC is now being urged to prove its impartiality by giving airtime to the charity single, which is raising money for causes supporting the elderly.
Greg Smith, the Tory MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, said it was “an absurdity that the BBC who like to present themselves as being allegedly impartial should not play a song that is selling so well – and could even be number one”.
He told the Telegraph: “Satire is often the most powerful check on power – and this song is highlighting the seriousness of Labour’s political choices to give bumper pay deals to their union paymasters whilst stripping some of our poorest pensioners from vital funds to heat their homes this winter.”
The track, Freezing This Christmas, is based on Mud’s 1974 festive number one Lonely This Christmas.
The lyrics read: “It’ll be freezing this Christmas, without fuel at home, it’ll be freezing this Christmas, while Keir Starmer is warm. It’ll be cold, so cold, without fuel at home, this Christmas.”
The song finishes with the line: “Merry Christmas, Keir, I hope you can sleep at night.”
It was created by Chris Middleton, a 33-year-old freelance writer and marketer, with the help of Dean Ager, a 51-year-old Rat Pack tribute singer.
The single is already topping the EE Big Top 40, which ranks songs based on downloads and Apple Music streams.
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