🎶 British Politician Sings Bizarre 'Insomnia' Song At Conference

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, the UK's Greater Lincolnshire mayor. You know her, Dame
Andrea Jenkins Jenko. It's Jenkins with a j E n
k y n. It's a saying spell. Well. She was
at the party conference in Birmingham and she surprised everyone
by coming out and singing a song. This is a

(00:24):
song she wrote herself. She was wearing a blue sequin
dressed dress. She walks out, throws her arms wide and
to everyone's surprise, starts singing.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Insomnia, Insomnia, I am now too, thanks, She said.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
The song is about being an insomniac because the Labor
government gives her sleepless nights. It's very it's very Eurovision,
isn't it. Well, at least in Eurovision they can no.
I think she's good. She's good really Okay, well let's
a bit more bright. She's good like you.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Look at if you were to compare and could drast
to what we had.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, well let's look at it. Bob ca Yeah, I
can assure your bobcatter June, you're older, the best fire.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Your colonel's distorted, very sure and sounds dementing.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Okay, A day week do you remember remember Craigmerson he
went into the Senate courtyard that I think this was
all about. He was the carbon tax something like that. Yeah,
it was Tony Abbott had said that Julia Gillard's carbon
attacks would wipe out the town of Wire That's right,
And so he comes out the whole artifice around. This
was bum clinching because he had like a ghetto blasted

(01:49):
in his boom box and he set it up, set up,
and his teeth standing around watching it.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
He didn't cue the song up enough because the song
that he was singing to, the Skyhooks song, has got
quite a long intro.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, And so he just stood awkwardly, and then when
he sang, he didn't quite get the scanning and the
timing right. So, why allah wipe out there on my TV?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why allah wipe out there on my TV?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Why allah wipe out there on my TV? Shocking me
right out of my brain. Imagine him practicing in his
offices and then going, yeah, no, it'll be good, it'll
be really good to do it. Who was and then
we have well, I guess she's politics adjacent. It was
the wife of the Governor General David Hurley. Her name
is Linda Hurley. Everywhere she went she would insist on singing,

(02:35):
and but she get people to join in. Yeah, you
get people to join it. But let's have a listen
to her. Here she's honoring the Shepherd Center.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
The Shepherd Center was founded by a mother and a dad.
Their children needed some help to hear so they would
not be sad. This carpool called the Shepherds wanted children
to listen and speak. They searched and went to Los Angelele's,

(03:02):
were a clinic had methods. They tweet.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
She wrote it as and look, this is not what
the shepherd said, which is wonderful. Why does you do
a song about venereal disease stuff as well? I'd like
to hear that. Not everyone was happy to hear it,
as you can imagine. Apparently, there was one time when
she demanded that Defense Force personnel and adelaide sing you

(03:26):
are My Sunshine three rounds of it, and she got in. Well,
they asked her to respect the professionalism of the soldiers
and not get them to sing you are My Sunshine and.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Buying large austrains.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
We don't like it.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
We're not, we're not. We don't like it.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
No,