Watch David Cameron Misquote the Smiths in Parliament

British Prime Minister David Cameron is a well-known Smiths fan (much to the chagrin of Johnny Marr.) However, his memory of one of their most iconic songs is a little dodgy, as NME points out. On Wednesday, during Prime Minister’s Questions (the weekly session at the House of Commons where the PM hears from Members of Parliament), Labour MP Kerry McCarthy invoked the Smiths’ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” when asking a question. Cameron, in his response, mistakenly quoted the lyrics: “I think the lyrics are ‘If a double decker bus crashes into us, there’s no finer way than by your side.’ I think. I think I’m right in saying.” The proper lyric is: “If a double decker bus crashes into us/To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.” Watch it below via NME.

With all the time the soon-to-resign PM will have on his hands, he can brush up on his copy of The Queen Is Dead. 

NME also reports that Cameron intentionally misquoted the Smiths’ “Cemetry Gates” when answering a question about embattled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been called upon to resign from the leadership. “As someone about to enter the political graveyard perhaps I could misquote my favorite man and say ‘let’s meet at the cemetery gates’!” Cameron reportedly said. (The lyric is “So I meet you at the cemetry gates.”)

Read “The Smiths Were Way More Subversive Than We (and David Cameron) Care to Remember” on The Pitch. 

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