SCOTTISH comedian Limmy is known for promoting Daft Punk’s Get Lucky as the sound of the summer – and now he’s created his own sound of the winter with a hilarious yet depressing anti-Brexit song.
Limmy created his “Song for Brexit Day” by transforming a clip of a remorseful Leave voter on James O’Brien’s LBC show into an instant dance classic.
Since posting the song this morning, the clip has been viewed more than 200,000 times.
The song samples Bill from Exmouth, who spoke to the LBC host back in 2018 – admitting he was “wrong” to vote for Brexit, breaking down in tears and asking: “What have I done to my country?”
Yous having a nice Brexit? pic.twitter.com/Y8XkKmQHff
— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) January 2, 2021
Paired with an upbeat backing track, the tune is both hilarious and grimly depressing.
“That's the first song that's ever made me simultaneously angry, happy and sad,” one user responded.
Several Twitter users responded calling for Song for Brexit Day to get to Number 1 in the UK charts.
O’Brien himself chipped in, responding: “Only James Brown gets sampled more than me. But his estate gets royalties!”
Composer Aiden O’Brien summed up the response to the song succinctly: “This is the ultimate Limmy joke. Irreverent, silly and very funny in a way that somehow also stings like hell.”
An anti-Brexit protester outside Holyrood on December 31
The UK left the EU officially on December 31 at 11pm – Scotland voted by 62% to Remain in the 2016 referendum.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted just after the clock struck 11, posting a photograph of the words Europe and Scotland attached by a love heart.
“Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on,” she wrote.
The image had previously been projected on to the side of the EU Commission building in Brussels.
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Scotland’s Constitution Secretary Michael Russell – whose speech on Scotland’s forced removal from the EU received widespread praise last week – also said the separate Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland and Gibraltar show independence is the “only alternative”, as the transition period ended.
In December 2016, the Scottish Government proposed keeping Scotland in the single market post-Brexit. This idea was rejected by Westminster.
Russell tweeted on Thursday night: “The NI & Gibraltar deals make clear that the 12/16 @ScotGov proposals could have produced a Scottish deal but were never pursued in EU negotiations by UK.
“Consequently the UK has itself created the circumstances in which independence is the only alternative for Scotland.”
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