LOCAL NEWS Dacorum Community Choir
DCC - A BUNCH OF LOONY LEFTIES
Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusivity are buzzwords of the current age, despite the nation’s recent lurch to the political right. As a community choir, we are non- political as well as non-religious, after all “Girls just want to have fun” and that goes for tenors and basses too. But political and religious concerns figured in our first committee meeting of 2017. Is our choir a vipers’ nest of socialist radicals, a sanctuary for progressive liberals or the seat of social reactionism?
Our chairman, bless her, can hardly be described as a lingering vestige of the Loony Left. After all she long ago opted to continue with the traditional title of the office despite her gender, preferring its ancient dignity to any possible confusion with an article of furniture or a charwoman. (She does, however, get things done, so she might correctly be described as a ‘woman wot does’.)
When our committee’s deliberations turned to what to do as a social event later in the year, a suggestion was made to organise a coach party to the variety show extravaganza at Thursford in Norfolk, a hugely popular entertainment venue which grew out of a museum for fairground organs and steam engines.
The idea was received with interest, but our resident representative of the Red Ken Livingstone Liberation Front raised a strong objection. “Is it inclusive?”she asked. After all, tickets would be pricey and then there was the cost of the charabanc. We shouldn’t take decisions that involved too much expense for some members, thus excluding them.
“I didn’t hear anyone object when we decided on a choir weekend in Amsterdam” chipped in another
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member. The committee then embarked on a whistle- stop tour of old ground, as committees are wont to do, assessing the relative merits of past barn dances, quiz nights and murder mystery evenings, who went to them, who didn’t and why. Eventually a decision was taken to investigate alternatives, and there the idea may well rest in peace.
The committee then came to reviewing the contents of the choir’s Suggestion Box in which the headline act was “Could we please sing more carols next Christmas?”Further evidence of the choir becoming a hotbed of dangerous radicalism?
It was a fair point, conceded our musical director. For one reason or another our recent programmes for the festive season had been built around Epiphany and Advent, and the opportunity had also been taken of pursuing a broader repertoire to take account of the festive feelings of non-believers. So adding a bit more christmas to Christmas next time round seemed a perfectly reasonable idea.
Thus enlightenment rules and harmony is preserved in our community choir.
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