Stand Down Margaret
| "Stand Down Margaret" | ||||
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| Single by the Beat | ||||
| from the album I Just Can't Stop It | ||||
| A-side | "Best Friend" | |||
| Released | 8 August 1980 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Bob Sargeant | |||
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"Stand Down Margaret" is a song by the English ska and new wave band the Beat, released as a double A-side single with "Best Friend" in August 1980. It is one of the band's most political songs, referring to the want for the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to resign.