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Lib Dem 'Glee Club' Mocks Dead Leader

Sky News has sneaked into a secret Lib Dem conference karaoke with songs mocking the recently deceased Charles Kennedy, Nick Clegg and telling Tony Blair to"***** off and die".

The "Glee Club" song book includes the lyric: "Charles Kennedy must be added to the list / a lovely little leader but a bugger when he's pissed." Another speaks of him "downing bottles in a trice" and asks him to "share the contents of your flask".

The popular Lib Dem leader was just 55 when he died of a haemorrhage related to alcoholism in June.

For the uninitiated, "Glee Club" is an infamously raucous karaoke night at Liberal Democrat conference. Cameras are usually banned, but Sky News managed to film hundreds of activists belting out pop tunes with "hilarious" politically-themed lyrics.

The gathered activists sung songs including "Tony Blair **** off and die" and "Clegg, Clegg, we are so dead / you've gone and let power go straight to your head / in order to please / now we're on our knees / cause Clegg we are so dead."

One new addition to the songbook mocks the 35 Labour MPs who nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership, to the tune of One Man Went to Mow.

One verse reads: "Four nomination tarts, nominated Corbyn / Four women, three tarts, two men, a moron and Skinner, nominated Corbyn..."

Another new song rails against Labour's recent abstention on the Conservatives' Welfare Bill. It reads: "Get down, ye starvelings, from your food banks!

"Get down, ye students who want! For you'll be losing your housing benefit, And your maintenance grant! Away with any Opposition! Labour MPs abstain! Abstain! Their attitudes to young workers are nowt but inhumane!"

Glee Club was founded when Liberals gathered informally in the hotel hosting the Liberal Assembly in 1965, when two young activists produced the first song sheet.

The 2015 songbook costs £5 and Sky News was warned they were expected to sell out quickly.