Hats off to the (presumably) Coldstream Guards band for this musical thumbing of the nose at one of the world’s leading financiers / exporters of Islamist terror:
Via Bruce Gottfred, Autonomous Source. Also noted at Daimnation!
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I believe a UK military band, perhaps the same one, once played the theme from “Bridge Across the River Kwai” on the occassion of the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister.
These little covert raspberries of defiance are hilarious.
Was it the actual movie theme, or the well-known Colonel Bogey on Parade?
It wasn’t the Brits.
Be proud, men.