Heather Small Liz Truss Conservative Party Britain Manchester Heather Small Liz Truss Conservative Party Britain Manchester

M People ‘livid’ at Liz Truss using Moving On Up at Tory Party conference and urge PM to listen to lyrics: ‘Go and pack your bags and get out’

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Conservative Party conference.Mike Pickering has spoken out after Prime Minister Liz Truss walked on stage to their 1990s hit, Moving On Up, ahead of delivering her keynote speech.The dance anthem, which was released by the Manchester-based band in 1993, peaked at number two on the UK singles chart and features vocalist Heather Small.Expressing his outrage, Pickering said: ‘They (the band) are livid.

Heather’s boy James is a Labour councillor. Hopefully most people will know that they have pirated it off us.’With little faith in the current leader, he added: ‘She won’t be around to use it again for very long, I would imagine.’Pickering continued: ‘I am absolutely gutted by it because they are killing the live touring of bands and artists.

I am Mancunian and getting from Manchester to London these days is harder than getting on to continental Europe.’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoThe music star said the band had contacted their lawyers about the use of the song at the conference, but said they have been advised there was little that could be done.He said: ‘The rest of the band have rung me, “For God’s sake, how can we stop it?”‘And we just rang the lawyers and they went, “You can’t actually stop it.

We can send a letter to cease and desist but you can’t do it”.’Their lawyers allegedly told them that ‘they can play what they like,’ which Pickering thought was ‘a bit weird.’We’re all in fear that these freaks are going to use our music.Despite being ‘livid,’ Pickering made room for a sly dig in his comments, as he noted the lyrics in the song selected by the PM.‘I was just looking at the lyrics.

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