Plan B - First Past The Post lyrics

They call it first past the post
You live in a constituency
Kinda like an area code
There are 650 of these various zones
Up and down the country
Designed to compartmentalise votes
Check the system listen
The prime ministerial candidate with
The most votes
Don’t always win in this system
Our votes only count towards
Helping some random politician
In our local jurisdiction better his position
Come closer listen ere
Only takes a third of the population to give
A party the majority they need to win
Even if more people in total across the UK
IE the real majority vote
Against them getting in
Yeah the systems kinda fucked and
It doesn’t seem fair


But that’s the way it is
Here and also over there
In the USA where the
Air’s already turned sour
Cause more people voted for Hillary but
Trump still got into power
But check the loophole
It’s called tactical voting
If you live in an area where most
Of your neighbours are a mix
Of blue and red and are practically
Neck to neck in the polling
And the yellow party are the party you’ve
Invested all in your hopes in
And your vote will probably be in vain
I know this sounds insane
And probably makes you feel like you’d
Do better if you just abstain
And didn’t vote for no one
Like ‘fuck ‘em they all the same’
No one represents me or my peoples anyways
But what if one party is the
Best of a bad bunch
And you’d rather them get into power
Than those other lying cunts
What then? Think practically
The only way of ensuring the worst
Don’t happen is by voting tactically
IE voting for the party you hate least so the
One you hate most don’t
Just win automatically
In the past this has worked with those of
You liberals in the centre
Who’ve voted pragmatically
Accepting things the way they are without
Trying to change them dramatically
Cause you know you’ll lose systematically
We’re living in different times now
Unprecedented
Trump and his daughter political
System no matter
How demented and augmented can be dented
You ain’t gotta go out and vote the
Same way your family and friends did
So go on roll the dice and play the game
Not all constituencies are the same
Some are red, some are blue and some
Are altogether strange mixes
Of the two that hang in the balance
And you might do well by putting
Your X up on that ballot
Throw some seasoning in that salad
Just try and swing it hope your party win it
That seat in the commons still
Has some value in it
Even if your party ain’t
Running government they
Can have a voice within it
Veto policies they don’t agree with
They’re the party in control of trying to
Pass through and get them beated
Like when Boris tried to provo
Parliament and got defeated

Fuck how you want to live now
This is about how you want to move forward
What kind of future you want for
Your sons and your daughters
And all you OAP’s out there
The ones that are probably going to die
In the next 10 years anyway
Why don’t you ask your fifteen
Sixteen year old grandkids who
They’d vote for if
They could and go vote for them
Your generations already fucked up
The environment for them
How about not fucking up their
Futures for them aswell?

On your marks, get set, go

First past the post
That’s what they call the system we use
In this country when we vote
Cameron said that Britain’s broke
But the only thing that’s broke in
Britain is the system, trust me
It’s a fucking joke
Just a two horse race like Lidl and Aldi
Fuck where you do your Christmas shopping man
All they wanna know is you
An innie or an outie
They don’t wanna see your belly button man
You don’t wanna live to regret this
Second chance to stay or head for the exit
Obviously I’m talkin about Brexit
Yeah that’s right we’re all
Still talking about Brexit
This ain’t no super complex shit, it’s simple
Fuck how these politicians flexin’
Trying to make this shit
About their parties policies
When ain’t nothing moving forward til
This problems been corrected

So vote Tory if you want to
Be free from European influence and
Become the 51st state of the US
When it comes to trading
Or vote Labour and have another
Referendum on whether we leave
The EU now that everyone’s more
Informed about the situation

If you’re worried about Jeremy stifling
Wealth creation and don’t
Wanna vote for Boris cause
You fucking hate him
Then vote lib dem in the consistencies
They have a realistic stake in
Or the green party
I hear some of you shoutin
Respect if that’s where you
Stand your ground in
Or any of the other smaller independent
Parties in the areas they
Have some actual clout in and
Force a hung parliament
So no mother fucker has the majority
And we get another coalition government
The choice is yours
Vote with your head and your
Heart in equal measures
Now that you’re better informed
Take your vote and
Go and ruffle some fuckin feathers

Oh and merry Christmas
What’s at the top of your wish list?
Apart from wrapping up this
Whole dirty stinking business
Go out and get voting
After that you can get the smoke
In and crack the tins open
Cause you need a clear
Head for what’s approaching, no joking
Trust me the games wide open
You know what to do
Hit the likes on this bitch
It needs promoting