"He posted images of the visit to Facebook on Friday, along with the caption: Great welcome yesterday in Caspe for a street press conference. The locals are sick of the migratory invasion. And we stand with them. Abascal or his media team decided to accompany the photos with Tubthumping, whose famously defiant chorus runs: I get knocked down/But I get up again/You're never gonna keep me down."
"When we wrote Tubthumping it was as an anthem for the underdog, for those fighting power, the band said in a statement. It sickens us that Spain's far-right Vox party would use the song to promote their small-minded, hate-fuelled agenda. We have asked Facebook to take down the video from its platform and we demand that Vox never use our song a song of hope and community again."
"It is not the first time Chumbawamba has felt compelled to speak out over the misappropriation of the song. In an article for the Guardian last year another member, Boff Whalley, criticised the populist New Zealand politician Winston Peters for using it. Let me be clear. The song Tubthumping was written to celebrate the resilience and tenacity of working-class folk"
Santiago Abascal of Vox posted images from a Caspe visit with a caption denouncing a “migratory invasion” and used Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping as soundtrack. Chumbawamba said the song was written as an anthem for the underdog and condemned Vox’s use as promoting a small-minded, hate-fuelled agenda, requesting Facebook remove the video and that Vox never use the song again. A former member, Alice Nutter, called the post vile and racist and noted the collective supports the Spanish government’s regularisation of undocumented migrants. The band previously objected to other political misuses of the song.
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