During a visit to Oxfordshire on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he did not feel the online campaign was "in verygoodtaste at all" but that it was not for politicians "to start telling the BBC what songs they broadcast".
And its influence has even spread to that great bastion of sobriety and conformity, that very fortress of goodtaste and sensible living, the officials' room at Catterick racecourse, North Yorkshire.