Which side are you on?

Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, September 12th, 2009 - 7 comments
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Following on from the workers’ rights/class war theme of the last few days, here’s an old classic:

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  1. burt 1
    12 September 2009 at 3:42 pm

    This continuation of “a battle” so is Trotteresque.

    Yawn… dreamy romantic memories of standing up to the man…. workers rights just ain’t like that anymore.

    Forget any union that can’t get past their own best interest maintaining their empires while corruptly aligning themselves to one political party that lost it’s way decades ago.

  2. Steve 2
    12 September 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Notice the supporters only new 5 words, the chorus “Which side are you on”
    What’s that? they wanted to hear the lyrics?
    If the song is an old classic they should have known the lyrics.
    Not a bad tune though, if you like banjos yeehaa!
    What are we supporting? never mind, bang that drum

  3. outofbed 3
    12 September 2009 at 6:27 pm

    The trouble is that most people think that they are only a lotto ticket away

  4. vto 4
    13 September 2009 at 9:22 am

    Still played today in some parts of the west coast. You know, land of labour origins and feral inbreds? No wonder Clark lost it at the end – she was lost at the start.

    • Zetetic 4.1
      13 September 2009 at 10:21 am

      Let’s just see if your boy wonder manages to make it three victories in a row.

      • vto 4.1.1
        13 September 2009 at 11:05 am

        He aint my boy wonder zet but I do tend to prefer nat policies over lab most of the time.

        My point was that that ballad and similar are still heard on the west coast on a regular basis – and that labour and Clark especially would have no idea that it is still like that such was their disconnect. Evidenced by feral inbred commentary and losing the west coast seat..

  5. Ron 5
    13 September 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Can’t agree vto. I don’t vote labour either but my experience of their leadershp is tht they are still strongly worker focused.
    The leadership HAVE moved away from Socialist roots but then again most of the world – including the West Coast heartland have.
    I think the divide was more about social conservatism. While both the Labour leadership and the traditional socialist heartland agreed on things like working for families and nationalising railways they diverged on issues like Treaty rights and smacking.

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