The BBC is being pressured to play a Christmas charity single that mocks Keir Starmer for slashing winter fuel payments. Freezing This Christmas by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers is a contender to top festive charts.

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The BBC is being pressured to prove its impartiality by playing a Christmas charity single that mocks Keir Starmer for slashing winter fuel payments.

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BBC under huge pressure to play Christmas song mocking Keir Starmer

Freezing This Christmas by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers is a contender to top festive charts

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BBC under pressure to play Christmas song mocking Starmer

A song mocking Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has topped the downloads and sales charts - but missed out on the Christmas number one, which went to Wham!'s Last Christmas

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Keir Starmer's humiliation as song mocking him tops downloads and sales charts

Failing British PM Keir Starmer is becoming so unpopular that the most popular Christmas song in the UK is a parody criticizing him. The Labour leader is being lampooned by a song that has now topped a second chart. But the liberal BBC is running cover for him and still won’t play the Christmas number one contender. ‘Freezing this Christmas’ uses the melody of Mud’s 1974 hit ‘Lonely this Christmas’ to satirize the Prime Minister’s cruel winter f…

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Anti-Starmer Holiday Parody Song ‘Freezing This Christmas’ that Criticizes Fuel Cuts for Pensioners, Reaches Top of the Charts in the UK - but BBC Still Won’t Play It

Watch as GB News Host Martin Daubney hilariously blares out a charity song mocking Sir Keir Starmer's winter fuel raid. Martin decided to head to Broadcasting House to mock the BBC for its refusal to play Freezing This Christmas, whilst also sharing a dance move or two... "Freezing This Christmas", a parody of Mud's "Lonely This Christmas", has garnered 1.6 million views on YouTube.The song, performed by the fictional band "Sir Starmer and the G…

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Martin Daubney brilliantly mocks BBC as he plays Freezing This Christmas outside its HQ

A parody song mocking UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 'Freezing This Christmas' will not be aired on BBC despite its popularity. Created by freelance writer Chris Middleton and performed by Dean Ager, the track criticises Labour's winter fuel payment cuts. The song is topping download charts and has raised over £24,000 for charity

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'Freezing This Christmas': The row over parody song mocking British PM Keir Starmer

THE songwriter behind a viral song panning Keir Starmer for the cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment has said it will be “almost impossible” to be…

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Media 'trying to avoid' chart-topping Keir Starmer Christmas parody song, writer says

A song protesting about a government decision to cut the winter fuel allowance is a surprise contender for the Christmas number one.

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As Guido noted last week, a festive tune criticising Keir Starmer over Labour’s winter fuel debacle is picking up a lot of fans. The track, by Sir Keir Starmer and The Granny Harmers, is called “Freezing this Christmas”… Now the BBC has been dragged into a row over its refusal to play the song, which is a contender for the Christmas charts.[…] Read the rest

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