laugh at Gordon Brown

[j1979]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-conservatives


im not voting conservative but this is good

[directhex]

Another violation of copyright by one of the Digital Economy parties. Sigh.

[Cozwin]

Another violation of copyright by one of the Digital Economy parties. Sigh.

haha never thought about that, nice.

[MaddAussie]

Seems to me that the Tories are shooting themselves in the foot with all the negative campaigning

[scaryjim]

Seems to me that the Tories are shooting themselves in the foot with all the negative campaigning

+1.

They claim they're the party for change, that they've got the policies to save Britain, but all of their public election campaigning seems to basically say "Brown's not very good - so why not give us a chance?". I haven't seen one Conservative election poster with a positive message about what they're offering - every single one is a cheap soundbite dig aimed personally at Gordon Brown. They're not even noticably Tory - the "Vote for Change, Vote Conservative" (and incidentally, do they not understand the irony in that tag line?) is in comparitively small text that someone driving past would have to strain to notice (crashing their car in the process, of course...). Negative campaigning can work if it's done well, with creativity and humour, but the current batch is, frankly, turd.

EDIT: and this poster, as several of the guardian's commenters pointed out, is pretty much the worst of a bad bunch. I sincerely hope this isn't actually going to be produced and put up - it's so badly designed and thought through that it has to be a hoax. Surely?

[finlay666]

Another violation of copyright by one of the Digital Economy parties. Sigh.

That was the first thing I noticed, not even a reference to the IP owner

[directhex]

That was the first thing I noticed, not even a reference to the IP owner

I sincerely doubt the Beeb would license the artwork for political attack ad purposes.

Repeat of the Ashes to Ashes ad debacle, really

[finlay666]

Repeat of the Ashes to Ashes ad debacle, really

And the life on mars audi quattro shots from a few weeks ago....

[directhex]

And the life on mars audi quattro shots from a few weeks ago....

That's the one I meant. I don't watch much TV

[Kata]

And the life on mars audi quattro shots from a few weeks ago....

I thought the Quattro WAS from Ashes to Ashes...?

[finlay666]

I thought the Quattro WAS from Ashes to Ashes...?

It possibly is, I only recognised the actor from Life on Mars

Seems he was in both as the same character, but the articles say Ashes to ashes was the show it was from

[Rave]

+1.

They claim they're the party for change, that they've got the policies to save Britain, but all of their public election campaigning seems to basically say "Brown's not very good - so why not give us a chance?". I haven't seen one Conservative election poster with a positive message about what they're offering - every single one is a cheap soundbite dig aimed personally at Gordon Brown.

Well, there's a good reason for that- what they're offering is massive cuts and economic pain for everyone. But then, so are the two other parties, despite their Micawber-ish protestations that something will turn up. A government deficit of £150bn+ a year is completely unsustainable, and if the next government doesn't take drastic steps to fix it, the international money markets will do it for them.

And....since it was Brown that got us into this mess, I personally think it is a reasonable campaigning strategy to point out that fact.

You can wish for positive policies all you like- but whoever wins, you're not going to get them. The country's screwed, and slashing spending is the only answer.

[SeriousSam]

Not to mention that National debt stands at a whopping 62% of GDP £890,000,000,000

Another couple of years of this level of spending and we'll be in the same league as communist countries...

Labour put us in this mess and as Rave says it is perfectly reasonable to point out this level of ineptitude. Of course whilst everyone wants this fixing they don't want it to be at their expense, hence the relative lack of talk of cuts and instead the focus on who caused it.

At some point though we are going to have to face the fact that due to our ever increasing population and ageing demographic that some of our "sacred cows" will have to go. It may not be the logical answer but we have to take these things one step at a time.

[M0nkeyb0Y]

Another violation of copyright by one of the Digital Economy parties. Sigh.

mjust be more than three times - surely they should be disconnected from us voters...

[Lucio]

mjust be more than three times - surely they should be disconnected from us voters...

You mean they aren't already?

[Rave]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...nancial-crisis