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James singer ‘disgusted’ as Tommy Robinson uses ‘Sit Down’ to promote hate

As reported by the Canary, Britain’s far-right gathered in London on Saturday 13 September for their Unite the Kingdom march:


As part of the marketing push, Tommy Robinson used Sit Down by 90s indie legends James. In response, the band’s singer has come out to make it clear where he stands:


Unite the Kingdom: sit down

We described James as ’90s legends’, but their career began in the 80s and continues today. James’ biggest hits did land in the 90s, of course, including She’s a Star, Laid, and Sit Down. James aren’t the only 90s band to find their songs being lifted by the far right either:


Many of those responding were familiar with the band’s lyrics:

Turns out some fans don’t listen to the lyrics, though:


The brain geniuses among you will notice this is an example of a right-winger engaging in cancel culture – that thing they pretend to be ideologically opposed to. It’s also an example of them cracking down on what they think free speech is, which is a person’s right to express any opinion they like online without being criticised.

This guy, meanwhile, didn’t seem to understand how copyright works:

Black mirror

Booth also received a comment from the infamous Ian Miles Cheong:

As reported by Times of India, Cheong is a Malaysian man who began as a left-leaning games journalist only to pivot to being a right-wing shit poster. Despite living in Malaysia, he only talks about Western politics, and what he talks about is frequently called into question. A key recent example of this was when he claimed the Netflix show Adolescence was based on the murder of three young girls in Southport.

The reason he’s dipping into UK politics, by the way, is because Elon Musk supports the British far right:


Cheong best typifies what X/Twitter has become under Musk, and that’s a right-wing echo chamber in which the worst opportunists fight to make the same points so they can earn money from the site’s creator programme. The following tweet is a key example of that:


The reason why it’s a key example is because Cheong wrote many articles on GTA 5 in his time as a games journalist. The man will literally say anything to suck up to Musk and earn that mildly sweet X/Twitter moolah.

Here’s another user who came after Booth (we don’t fully follow his point, but looking at his profile, he’s a right winger):


Here’s the same guy celebrating a ‘tip’ he got from Musk:


For more on how Musk’s X/Twitter is warping the reality of British right wingers, you should watch the latest video from Tom Nicholas (Elon Musk is Rotting Conservative’s Brains…):

Unite against this

The Canary was on the ground on Saturday covering both the Unite the Kingdom protest and the counter marches:

It’s important that we all continue to stand up to these people.

As much as they talk about British independence, it’s clear they actually want Britain to be an impoverished American colony. I don’t know about you, but I think we can do a bit better than whatever the hell Musk and Trump have turned America into.

Featured image via BBC / X/Twitter

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.