Must try harder
Tory candidate Ed Matts has been caught using Photoshop to bring old publicity snaps on message.
The original shot shows Matts and Tory heartbreaker Ann Widdecombe protesting for - wait for it - an immigrant family to be allowed to stay in Britain.
Weeks later the same photo has popped up minus the family and plus handy on message slogans.
A Conservative spokesman tried to justify the deception:
“Ed Matts excluded the family who appeared in the original photo by creating a new image in order to protect them from media attention.”
Update: Create your own shabby identikit image here.
April 13th, 2005 at 1:35 pm
Check this out:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,9352,1457954,00.html
April 19th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Excellent.
Just a shame I couldn’t fit on the now legendary placard from Wayne’s World (”This man blows goats” “I have proof”)
April 24th, 2005 at 3:04 am
“I’m with stupid”
April 24th, 2005 at 3:05 am
D’oh, it seems that was embarrasingly unoriginal! If only I’d checked the guardian link first!