Politicians love a good rock ballad to accompany otherwise long and boring conference sessions.
SEE ALSO:The British Prime Minister's speech was one enormous, flaming dumpster fire and we're cringingBut sometimes they forget one small but crucial detail: ask the song's author/performer for permission.
That's what happened last year when Donald Trump, then still a candidate, used The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Start Me Up" at his rallies. Tired of being associated with Trump, the Stones issued a "cease and desist".
In a similar fashion, Florence + The Machine want you to know they're not happy about the Tories' blasting their haunting cover of Candi Staton's "You've Got The Love" at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester:
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If it's any consolation to Florence, Prime Minister Theresa May's big speech at the conference was a disaster, complete with a comedian handing her a P45 redundancy form, a cough that just wouldn't go away, and letters falling off the sign behind her.
Arguably, May had bigger fish to fry and in the future she probably wouldn't mind dropping the indie rock for a more traditional (and fitting) church music or Abba song.
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