Lib Dem activists have come under fire after they refused to drop their traditional karaoke song mocking Charles Kennedy's drinking problem from tonight's annual sing-along party.
The former Liberal Democrat leader died just three months ago due to a major hemorrhage caused by his long battle with alcoholism.
But tonight, at the party's traditional Glee Club karaoke night - a popular and noisy fringe event where attendees crowd around a piano and sing popular songs rewritten with politically-themed lyrics - supporters will sing about his battle with the bottle.
One of the songs due to be sung tonight describes their late leader as "a lovely little leader but a bugger when he's pissed".
On the day Lib Dems pay tribute to Charles Kennedy these lyrics in activists' evening song book pic.twitter.com/dBl7q12280
— Ross Hawkins (@rosschawkins) September 22, 2015
Lib Dem activists will go on to sing about Mr Kennedy "downing bottles in a trice" and asks him to "share the contents of your flask".
The song was written in 2004 - before Mr Kennedy, then Lib Dem leader, admitted to his alcohol problem and has been sung at the party's annual conference every year since, along with its raft of other edgy songs.
The Liberal Democrat leadership has distanced itself from the song, claiming "hardly anyone goes" to the Glee Club event.
Charles Kennedy - his political career in pictures
Another song on tonight's songbook - compiled by the long-running liberal satirical magazine Liberator, is one attacking the party's former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.
It mocks him for having many "Tory friends" and defending his ex-Conservative colleagues' record in office. Mr Alexander was criticised by some in the Lib Dems for "going native" at the Treasury and being too close to George Osborne, the Tory Chancellor, as the Coalition government made deep cuts to public services.
That's Sir Danny Boy to you pic.twitter.com/KxDnNdtM8v
— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) September 22, 2015
The chorus sings: "So why don't you just this once show you're a Liberal, show there is passion and some principles you share? But no, instead you sound robotically a Tory, and all the people see is that semi-vacant stare."
But the Lib Dems are not just making fun of their own. A new addition to the song sheet - composed over the last 24 hours - contains lyrics mocking David Cameron over extraordinary claims that he put his genitals in a dead pig's mouth as an initiation ceremony for an elite drinking club.
Mr Cameron has publicly refused to "dignify" the allegations with a response but has privately told friends that the story is "utter nonsense".
Titled The Prosciutto Affair, the song starts: "If your name is Cam, You've been amourous with ham, In an Oxford Country Garden...You'll find you're doing time, If you stick it in a swine, In an Oxford Country Garden."
Lyric sheets for "The Prosciutto Affair" (To the tune of "English Country Garden") have been produced! #ldconf pic.twitter.com/3XfyeFKnVG
— Zoe O'Connell (@zoeimogen) September 22, 2015
