A Song for Millom (I will survive)

It has been suggested that the song "I will survive" was particularly apposite to the recent county council election in Millom.

The Labour candidate was a recent Tory defector who fought one of the most most personal and nasty campaigns most of us had ever seen - a campaign which several senior members of the constituency Labour party from the MP's staff down have privately been falling over themselves to disavow.

As does not always happen in politics, this campaign reaped its just reward with a well above average swing and a wafer-thin Conservative majority converted into a gigantic one.

So here, to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive" is "A Song for Millom"


When the poll was called, I was petrified,
Kept thinking, would that two-vote margin really stay on side?
But then so many nights canvassing I heard you did me wrong
And I grew strong and I learned how to get along

And now you're back from outer space
And putting out your silly smear sheets all over the place
Electing you to Copeland council, that we never should have tried,
If we'd have known for just one second, that you'd turn to the dark side

Go on now, go! Walk out the door!
Just turn around now: 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt us with goodbye
Did you think we'd crumble, did you think we'd lay down and die?

Oh, no, not I! I will survive!
Oh, ’cause we have integrity, I know our cause will thrive
I've got all my life to live and we've got hard work to give
And I'll survive, I will survive, hey, hey

It took all the strength I had not to lose my way
Nor respond in kind to Labour lies in “Millom Today”
And I spent, oh, so many nights just knocking on the doors
I used to cry, but now I hold my head up high

And you see us, with purpose new
There’ll be no more misjudgements like when we elected you
But all your Macbride tactics did is turn your name to dust
And now we’re saving all our respect for people we can trust

Go on now, go! Walk out the door
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to break us with goodbye
Did you think we'd crumble, did you think we'd lay down and die?

Oh, no, not I! I will survive!
And a majority of two is now six hundred seven-five
I've got all my life to live and we've got hard work to give
And I'll survive, I will survive, I will survive!

(repeat chorus)

Go on now, go! Walk out the door
Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to break us with goodbye
Did you think we'd crumble, did you think we'd lay down and die?

Oh, no, not I! I will survive!
And a majority of two is now six hundred seven-five
I've got all my life to live and we've got hard work to give
And I'll survive, I will survive, I will survive!

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