STATUS QUO’S songs have been called many things, most of them unprintable, but never the soundtrack of good local government. However, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham went where BBC Radio 1 refused to go by releasing a cover version of that classic 1975 Quo hit, Down Down – which, if you can’t remember, sounds like every other classic Quo hit – on YouTube to publicise council tax cuts of 3 per cent, reports Local Government Chronicle online. “Rubbish”, “pathetic” and “how embarrassing” were among the less insulting comments left on YouTube.