A right-wing politician has come under fire from one of the founding members of UK anarcho-punk group Chumbawamba, best known for their 1997 hit ‘Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)‘, for using the song as a “campaign anthem”.
As the Bendigo Advertiser reports, Bendigo councillor Elise Chapman took a page out of the book of controversial UK politician Nigel Farage by using the song, taking to Facebook to share a link to the tune.
“One of my campaign anthems,” Cr Chapman, at one time the One Nation party’s lead Victorian candidate for the Senate, wrote, much to the chagrin of Dunstan Bruce, a founding member of Chumbawamba who sang on the hit single.
“This idiot is using ‘Tubthumping’ as part of her nefarious election campaign. I have asked the idiot to stop. Idiot,” Bruce wrote. The post was indeed removed, which is probably for the best, since Chapman’s supporters were a bit miffed by it anyway.
“Surely you don’t want to align yourself with dirty anarchists?” one commenter wrote. However, as Ms Chapman explained to the Advertiser, she like most people focused on the chorus of the song and not the verses or the band playing it.
Chapman said she could relate to the line “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never gonna keep me down” and thought the line “p***ing the night away” was in fact “missing the night away”, because that totally makes sense.
