Channel 4’s coverage takes a surreal turn with their spoof political broadcasts.
They commissioned films for the three main parties from Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, the duo responsible for the controversial ’suicide bomber’ spoof VW Polo ad.
Ford said:
“We set about creating the kind of broadcasts the three main parties would like to make if there were no regulations and they didn’t have to be politically correct.”
See all three at Channel4.com.
UNISON has launched a spoof ad campaign based on Tory election posters.
The public service union’s version of the billboards asks:
“‘What are the Tories thinking of? – use your vote to stop them’
We couldn’t agree more. More details at the UNISON site.
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Are you thinking what we’re thinking? Of course not.
Here’s another bumper crop of defaced Tory billboards.
As one visitor noted, what they lack in subtlety, they gain in enthusiasm.
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Michael Howard’s missus gets a two page spread in today’s News of the Screws.
Former Vogue model Sandra tells all about how the old codger wooed her.
We hear how most of the action took place on the purple bed sheets of his Chelsea bachelor pad (cf. William Hague’s 14 pints a day boast.)
It’s a transparent piece of myth-making.
Among the clumsy attempts to humanise him, we learn:
“He loves soppy films like Sleepless in Seattle, which he cried at.”
Shucks – that takes the edge of his iffy immigration policy, then.
Compare the quotes with her November 2004 interview in The Lady magazine:
“Yes, he’s very romantic, which is why I get frustrated that his image in the press isn’t at all like the man I know. He’s also quite sentimental and loves films like Sleepless in Seattle.”
Read more of of Sandra Howard’s heartfelt wisdom at her Conservatives.com campaign blog.
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Reasons vary; many are indifferent to Labour, others feel impotent to change anything.
We’ll give you one reason why Michael Howard must never be Prime Minister.
He was asked on 8 November 2004 how a Tory government would handle refugees fleeing an atrocity abroad.
He said that once a quota had been met:
“We would say ‘I am really very sorry, but actually there is a limit to the number of refugees we can take’.”
Howard is a Romanian Jew whose family fled Nazi persecution – yet he would refuse protection to those suffering in similar situations.
Read his full statement and vow to vote.
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