A protestor in the U.K. has gone viral for blasting a very appropriate Beastie Boys classic outside Downing Street. 

The U.K. is having quite a time of it this week. Reports emerged that several parties took place in Downing Street last December while the rest of the country was under strict COVID-19 lockdown. That meant the majority of the public were unable to spend time with their friends and family over Christmas. The phrase “one rule for them and another for us” springs to mind.

A video leaked by ITV News on Tuesday, December 7th, then increased the controversy. It showed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about the reports of a party from last December 22nd, 2020. “This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced,” she said (Stratton has since resigned).

In a move that sounds like a storyline from Veep, PM Johnson has now ordered an investigation into exactly what happened last December. Downing Street has insisted no party took place and that “COVID rules have been followed at all times.”

The U.K. public are understandably irate at the reports and one person took his protest to Downing Street yesterday, December 8th. A viral video shows a man wearing a top hat and holding a huge speaker system, blasting Beastie Boys‘ ‘Fight For Your Right (To Party)’ outside the Downing Street gates.

One of the most enduring protest songs, the 1987 single was taken from the hip hop icon’s classic 1986 album Licensed to III. It reached number seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was later named as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

It’s not known if PM Johnson or the rest of Downing Street heard the protestor’s speaker system but waking up to Beastie Boys’ fiery anthem during a national crisis probably isn’t what you want of a Wednesday morning.

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