The Beautiful South's self-censorship of the single version of 'Don't Marry Her' put in the context of Tony Blair winning the Labour leadership following the death of John Smith, was the ultimate foreshadowing of pop giving up the ghost under New Labour, much like how menu cars on trains following privatization stopped selling hot cups of Oxo in favour of Coca-Cola. Which, if happened earlier during the Housemartins era, Heaton would have written a song about it from the traditionalist Northern working class viewpoint of...
(Apologises for the lack of a Rupert Murdoch conspiracy theory.)
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