Released fifteen months into Margaret Thatcher’s premiership (when unemployment was rising sharply, as were racial tensions and the temperature of the Cold War), this song, part of multiracial Midlands Two-Tone ska, does more than call for her resignation: its title advocates for less aggressive policies and ‘standing down’ troops. The line ‘this all white law’ puns on the name of Home Secretary William Whitelaw. Performed on children’s television, it reached No.22 in the charts.