99 Red Balloons... and One Blue One

The increasingly media-savvy conservatives playing the song ‘99 Red Balloons’ and marching around Westminster today wearing Gordon Brown masks in honour of Labour's 99 ‘stealth taxes’ (god I hate this oppositional expression) are probably quite aware that they're making a double protest.

So there's these apparently sneaky taxes, but there's also the ‘stealth’ message of at least the principle of opposition to the Iraq war, to which the Cons are publically opposed, and which is the subject of Nena's song about an accidental and unnecessary war:

99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by