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Britain's fabulous Brexit song is even better than the Trump Girls Freedom song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTGt392Gas

Britain is to hold a referendum on leaving the European Union, and the “Brexit” group—largely represented by the country’s nativist UKIP party—have a fabulous music video to promote their cause.

Based upon a more charmingly patriotic soccer song by Lightning Seeds, with comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel, the new version is genuinely transfixing. It’s hard to tell if it’s a parody or not; the original artists write that they laughed like drains when they watched it.

They want our prisoners to vote

They’ve taken all our fish. And money

Through the years

There’s endless regulation, red tape

It seems there’s no escape

Till the leave vote takes shape.

UKIP (“U.K. Independence”) is often said to tap into the same currents of anger and despair as Donald Trump. Here, for comparison, are the “Trump Girls”…

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