Labour apologise after posting TikTok video featuring explicit song
7 January 2025, 10:09 | Updated: 7 January 2025, 11:31
The Labour Party has deleted an artificial intelligence (AI) generated TikTok featuring a Portuguese-language song with lyrics about having sex with a "naughty young girl".
The 34-second clip, titled "Labour's plan to change Britain as animals", showed AI animals representing key workers while the song Montagem Coral by Brazilian artist DJ Holanda played in the background.
It didn't take long for viewers to find English translations of the Portuguese lyrics, which reference smoking marijuana, sexual acts and sexist slurs.
The video, which featured a bulldog in a police uniform, a hare as a nurse and a bull in a hi-vis jacket and builder's helmet, was swiftly removed by Labour when users drew attention to the song's lyrics in the comments.
A Labour spokesperson said: "The post is an adaptation of a viral social media trend and contains a mix of two music tracks.
"We acknowledge the translation of the lyrics are completely inappropriate. We apologise and the video has now been deleted."
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The video featured text over each AI-generated animal, detailing the supposed pros of Labour's policies in each of the sectors being depicted, such as policing, healthcare, energy and housing.
TikTok has increasingly become the platform used by organisations trying to reach younger audiences.
Alicia Kearns, the Conservative MP for Rutland and Stamford, offered a scathing assessment of the TikTok video on X, singling out the home secretary.
She wrote: "Do you think it's acceptable, Yvette Cooper, for your party to put out videos with lyrics encouraging men to get young girls on drugs so they can have sex with them, and celebrating punching girls in their vaginas? So much for telling us we'll feel safer with you in charge."
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