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Sunday, November 22, 2009
From Jedward to Deadwood
This poster has been launched by the Conservative Party this evening. Quick work, guys!
Well, yes, it was Labour who started the Jedward comparison, and it has rebounded. Serve them right.
But it does make a sadder and truer point. The original X Factor is the mark we put on the voting form. And just as with the TV show, we get fed with rubbish by people who enrich themselves vastly in the process. In the end, it makes no difference to us who wins.
Ian, as you are well connected within Conservative circles, are you going to challenge senior Tories about their responses to the leaking of emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia? It shows that so-called scientists have conned the politicians of all parties and therefore the public. This is massive and is spreading like wild-fire through blogosphere. I hope Cameron takes note of this scam.
The fact that Labour did it first is fair reason fore doing it now.
The Hadley CRU exposure by hackers should if there was any justice result in a Public Enquiry into the workings of modern British 'Science'.
And on a science related subject - What can be wrong with the workings of our civil engineering inspection regime (and the political responses to it) if 1800 bridges in Cumbria are now to be considered suspect?
Yes, to be fair, Labour did it first, and--in my view--to better effect. Darling and Brown are many things, but self-styled boy wonders they are not.
I'd really prefer it if political parties stayed out of farces like Jedward, but then again, the X Factor often reminds me uncannily of our largely decrepit politics.
"And on a science related subject - What can be wrong with the workings of our civil engineering inspection regime (and the political responses to it) if 1800 bridges in Cumbria are now to be considered suspect?"
The only bridges I saw on TV (the only exposure I have ever had to Cumbria I'm afraid) looked relatively old, so would have deteriorated over time. It makes sense to investigate.
Ziiiiing.
ReplyDeleteWho would be the Kandy Rain of British politics though? And why haven't I met them?
Try to be original iain!
ReplyDeletethat was done last week with Cameron and Osbourne tsk tsk
A much more polished photoshop! Poor Jedward :-(
ReplyDeleteBit too smart I think, the public won't like it.
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, it was Labour who started the Jedward comparison, and it has rebounded. Serve them right.
ReplyDeleteBut it does make a sadder and truer point. The original X Factor is the mark we put on the voting form. And just as with the TV show, we get fed with rubbish by people who enrich themselves vastly in the process. In the end, it makes no difference to us who wins.
Ian, as you are well connected within Conservative circles, are you going to challenge senior Tories about their responses to the leaking of emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia? It shows that so-called scientists have conned the politicians of all parties and therefore the public. This is massive and is spreading like wild-fire through blogosphere. I hope Cameron takes note of this scam.
ReplyDeleteErm, this has already been done by Labour... Really poor.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Labour did it first is fair reason fore doing it now.
ReplyDeleteThe Hadley CRU exposure by hackers should if there was any justice result in a Public Enquiry into the workings of modern British 'Science'.
And on a science related subject - What can be wrong with the workings of our civil engineering inspection regime (and the political responses to it) if 1800 bridges in Cumbria are now to be considered suspect?
Yes, to be fair, Labour did it first, and--in my view--to better effect. Darling and Brown are many things, but self-styled boy wonders they are not.
ReplyDeleteI'd really prefer it if political parties stayed out of farces like Jedward, but then again, the X Factor often reminds me uncannily of our largely decrepit politics.
@Roman erm isn't that the point, their version was pathetic so it's just playing them at their own game
ReplyDeleteIs this the next expenses type scandal...
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/
I wonder if Dave Lightweight and Gideon Wallpaper have any similarly original policy ideas.
ReplyDeleteSuch distortions will always recall the "Demon Eyes" posters for which John Major apologised.
ReplyDeleteYou don't think . . that The Sun's latest fiasco against Brown was enough for the time being?
You'll be copying more labour policies soon I expect . . .
I preferred the Laurel and Hardy posters some of your contributors came up with.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this? A tennis match?
ReplyDeleteLabour copy Private Eye, Tories copy Labour.
Advantage no-one as the major parties go after the vapid vote.
Good grief.
"And on a science related subject - What can be wrong with the workings of our civil engineering inspection regime (and the political responses to it) if 1800 bridges in Cumbria are now to be considered suspect?"
ReplyDeleteThe only bridges I saw on TV (the only exposure I have ever had to Cumbria I'm afraid) looked relatively old, so would have deteriorated over time. It makes sense to investigate.
Negative campaigning which aims to ridicule your oponents is often counter-productive. The Tories should leave this sort of crap to Labour.
ReplyDeleteThis poster is awful. It's the kind of crap that the public hate.
ReplyDeleteAre the Tories really trying to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory?
Sarah:
ReplyDeleteEurope is engraved on the hairline of Mr Chameleon, while young Mr Osborne has a few figures his nemesis will decipher no doubt . . .
Actually is is Osborne as Dagwood which is most worrying I fear . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm fed up with the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster, the name calling, backbiting, point scoring, finger pointing.
ReplyDeleteSounded good at the time.
Well Malcolm, a positional comment, surely?
ReplyDeleteSLD 1986?