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The BBC has been urged to play “Freezing This Christmas” by “Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers” which is a play on Mud’s “Lonely This Christmas” as it is allegedly “impartial.”
The song brutally mocks Labour and Keir Starmer over their decision to cut the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners.
The song has surged in popularity which was created by Chris Middleton with the help of Dean Ager, who is an Rat Pack Singer.
Tory MP Greg Smith joined in the argument saying it is “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.”
Middleton told The Telegraph, “If the rules of your chart are that you play the number one every week, and you choose not to play it, that is bias.”
Ager told The Telegraph, “I’ve not heard it one time – I get being impartial, but surely that contradicts freedom of speech.
“If it’s not being played, it’s raising less money, and this message shouldn’t be blocked.”
The BBC said that radio stations make their decisions which are “always made with the relevant audiences and context in mind.”
Starmer has been brutally mocked in the parody and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been called a “fraud” in the song.
On the band’s JustGiving page it reads, “Not a single person in the UK in 2024 should die because of the cold.”
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