Lib Dem Glee Club Mocks Kennedy's Drinking

Lib Dems will mock Charles Kennedy's drink problem at a conference sing-a-long just months after he died.

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 p*****."

Another speaks of him "downing bottles in a trice" and asks him to "share the contents of your flask."

The popular Lib Dem leader died of a haemorrhage related to alcoholism in June, aged just 55.

The 26th edition, the 2015 Liberator Song Book is dedicated to Mr Kennedy as a "Farewell to a dear friend" and says "Mr Kennedy was more singed against than singing".

For the uninitiated, "Glee Club" is an infamously raucous karaoke night at Liberal Democrat conference. Activists let their hair down by gathering round a piano to belt out tunes with "hilarious" politically themed lyrics.

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. "Get down, ye starvelings, from your food banks!" It reads, "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!"

One traditional favourite Glee Club song gleefully tells Tony Blair to "***** off and die".

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 this morning they were expected to sell out quickly.