Oona King to release record?

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Ex MP Oona turns to pop with genocide message
21 May 2008
EXCLUSIVE by Ted Jeory

FORMER Labour MP and current Downing Street adviser Oona King could be set for pop stardom — by releasing a record about genocide. Oona is following in the steps of George Galloway, the man who deposed her at Bethnal Green and Bow in the 2005 General Election, by recording a track with a political message. She has teamed up with soul artist JDaCosta for a song called Genocide.

The record is still in the production stage, but an anonymous tipster dropped off a CD copy at the offices of the East London Advertiser in Bethnal Green on Tuesday (May 20). Hip hop fan Oona, who called her memoirs House Music, opens the track by talking about “gross atrocities.” The former supporter of the Iraq War is heard saying: “Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker. I’m initiating this debate on the International Criminal Court, which represents nothing less than Mankind’s efforts to outlaw gross atrocities, crimes against humanity.”

As Oona’s voice fades out, JDaCosta starts singing: “I’m not a politician, nor neither a magician, but I’ve come to the conclusion, there’s only one solution, to walk so far away from this public disarray of disillusion. You’re nothing but confusion.” Two minutes later, Oona restarts her speech, saying to music: “The Nuremberg Tribunal tried war criminals, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. “The Genocide Convention in 1948 defined genocide as an attempt to destroy, in the whole or in the part, a national, ethnic or religious group. The Genocide Convention gave a name to what Churchill described in this chamber of the House of Commons as a crime with no name. Despite the large body of existing humanitarian law, we’ve seen continued genocide.”

Ms King, who was this week being touted for a high profile role as Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s political adviser, told the East London Advertiser that JDaCosta was a friend and former constituent. “She asked me for some help in a song she was singing and I agreed to read out the text of an old Parliamentary debate on genocide. I hope she’s really successful. But as for any chance of me going into the music business, I would not want to inflict that torture on the nation.”

However, JDaCosta’s manager Henry Ellis said Oona’s musical ability was “amazing.” He added: “She was a natural. She’s known JDaCosta for years and when the opportunity came up for them to work together, she just took it. She did the recording in one day.” The record, produced by Asian rapper The Jackal, would soon go on promotional release to test reaction, he revealed. If it goes well, it will be given a general commercial release with some proceeds possibly going to charity. “After that, the two of them might work together again, who knows,” Mr Ellis added.

MP George Galloway reached Number 6 in the charts in February last year with a spoof cover of Edwin Starr’s War.

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Not to besmirch the memories of those killed in genocides, the track sounds painfully trite. Unless she's going to name names it's just empty rhetoric, though I'd be interested to hear what her voice is like.

[nekokate]

Haha, you're right about those lyrics - they sound like a 12-year-old kid's poem.

"I'm not a politician, nor neither a magician, but I've come to the conclusion, there's only one solution, to walk so far away from this public disarray of disillusion. You're nothing but confusion."

Good gravy! In a way it sort of reminds me of that playground chant "It's a man's obligation to insert his boneration in a woman's ventillation to increase the population of the human generation..."

And this idea of inserting clips from speeches into songs... Where have I heard that before????

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The sooner Oona gets a real job, the better for us all
Martin Samuel
8th July 2011

My grandad used to have a rabbit stall in Bethnal Green Road. One day a bloke came up and asked him to stand for the Conservative Party at the General Election. Bit of a career change, but that is how much chance the Tories have in Bethnal Green and Bow.

Based on a weekly chat putting the world to rights over the odd skinned rabbit, the Conservatives thought they had found their man; or their mug. No serious aspiring politician would take the job. No point. Bethnal Green and Bow was one of the safest seats in the country. Labour could have put up Archie Andrews and won, and the old man was no dummy. He was fighting one lost cause against myxomatosis without embracing another. And he had no time for politicians anyway.

This was the seat Oona King managed to lose for Labour in 2005. George Galloway won for the Respect party. It is back in Labour hands now King has gone. After her defeat, with great hubris King attempted to act as an unofficial MP in a constituency that had rejected her, in an office funded by the GMB union. Then she ran for Labour candidate as London Mayor and lost to Ken Livingstone. This week King announced she was having a fundraiser at the Ministry of Sound nightclub to avoid bankruptcy.

She has been left in debt by the failed mayoral campaign and a media gig that isn’t as lucrative as she’d hoped (presumably because nobody needs insight from a politician on the wrong end of a 26.2 per cent swing, or one that presided over a five per cent increase of the Conservative vote during the Labour landslide of 1997).

If declared bankrupt she would lose her seat in the House of Lords, where she was inexplicably made a life peer in January. And like all career politicos, getting a proper job never occurs to her. ‘This will be the most entertaining fundraiser you’ve ever been to,’ she promises. Yet to what end? In her mind, King is a national treasure (self-elected) and we must pass the hat to preserve the wonder that is her. Yet, in a recession, potless Baronesses are of as little value as potless Duchesses and Princesses. Why should anyone pay to bail out King’s overplayed hand?

More pressingly, what use is a politician who is beholden to fundraisers to stave off bankruptcy? Does that not make her uncomfortably vulnerable to vested interests? If a firm puts in 20 grand to keep Baroness King out of Carey Street, is it not entitled to expect something in return? Protection in the Lords, perhaps.

The people would have been better served by my grandad. To be fair, they would have done better with one of his dead, skinned rabbits.

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She must owe a lot to be able to hire the Ministry of Sound - I'd guess that would be at least 10 grand

[luke]

i didn't know she'd made it into the house of lords



the ministry of sound with oona king and ed miliband ?! fuck right off