DT1- Location: Dover
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3 February 2010
08:4639502#1
Probably the source of the picture posted by Bob Frost last week, this made me laugh so much morning. It's a shame politics has come to this...god bless those Saachi brothers, Sorry Barry!
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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3 February 2010
09:2939503#2
Very amusing DT but it is not politics.
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3 February 2010
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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3 February 2010
10:2639508#4
Lol! I nearly choked on me cornflakes, very funny
DT1- Location: Dover
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3 February 2010
17:5639537#5
It may well not be what you or I regard as 'politics' Barry but it is just as political as the advertisments it is satarising, if not more.
On Bridge Street the other day, whilst sat at the traffic lights, I had to endure DC's airbrushed mug gazing down on me. Sending a very clear message that his campaign is just as much about him as it is about policy.
The reaction on this site is valid (albeit playful and a bit silly) about the public's reactions to this idea. It is actually far more democratic (the internet being an excellent place for free personal expression) than the just the opinions of a columnist in a politically weighted newspaper, or even the advertising house that came up with this campaign (the original poster actually being more absurd than these comical distortions)
Election Politics has been reduced to this and to deny it is only to devalue the point of David Cameron's face being in Bridge Street in the first place. The Saachi ads, the demon eyes and now this (both parties playing the game), all expose the rather shallow approach to gaining public support.
3 February 2010
23:0439575#6
DT1, although society generally finds all this election advertising distasteful and "off brand" with what political elections are (or should be) about, you need to remember that there is a good reason why it is the way it is. Without the tasteless backstabbing negative evil airbrushed bullsh*t of election advertising, nobody would be interested in it one bit. We are, whether we like to admit it or not, a race of creatures that are highly responsive to high-concept, visually-led, soap-opera advertising campaigns. If every billboard advert showed an unflattering (ie REALISTIC) snap shot of an unattractive MP or stated simple policy facts without any PR spin then we'd find that advert so utterly unstimulating that it would be a waste of space. By airbrushing, or ribbing the rivals, or being "creative" with the truth, they grab out attention and, as we are doing right now, they stimulate debate on some level or other.
We can moan and complain all we like about "New Labour New Danger" and its evil red eyes, or the spit-and-polish of Cameron's heavily Photoshopped mugshot, but without these techniques their message won't reach us.
I happen to be as fed up as you and everyone else with it all, but because of my job I have quite a good understanding of how this type of advertising works and WHY it works. I'm also able to see through it most of the time. Yes, some of the ads are recklessly futile and unimaginative but at the end of the day, our political parties are struggling to get noticed alongside giant billboards filled with M&S bras, Cadbury's Cream Eggs, the latest gorgeous Seat Ibiza, or that hot chick from the insurance company. Can't be easy for them - bless!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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3 February 2010
23:1139578#7
have to disagree with you to some extent rick.
off the top of my head the lib dem bloke for lewes, one norman baker, is not a charismatic, photogenic type.
he keeps getting elected by being intelligent, sensible and just an every day sort of chap.
by all accounts he has surgeries in his constituency where her does actually listen to people and act upon it. most mps
get their personal assistant to send a sterotyped letter in reply to constituents who need assistance.
squeaky clean on expenses too.
DT1- Location: Dover
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3 February 2010
23:1539579#8
I couldn't agree more Rick with everything you say, and as a designer (by training not by practise anymore) it pains me to see it.
Like you say bless, but it is sad!
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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3 February 2010
23:2739581#9
Isnt it amusing. Barryw posted a little while ago a posting much the same as the one done on DC MAYBE not as long or as funny.
When the boots on the other foot as they say, he doesn't like it.
politics is so stale these days
Ross Miller
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3 February 2010
23:3739584#10
sadly this sort of nonsense - the original posters - is what puts many people off politics, oh and the fact that there is a complete lack of real imagination or intelligence in national politics any more; it is all careerist greasy pole climbers these days with few exceptions.
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4 February 2010
08:4839596#11
Promptly shared!! I laughed out loud! It just did out loud what most of us think - demonstrated Camerons idiocy!!
4 February 2010
08:5139597#12
Just a footnote: Rick, I can only agree. I long for the days of an unshaven Michael Foot (and that isn't a euphomism!) and scruffy Benn actually talking rather than posing. Chruchill wasn't exactly handsome, Kennedy was buff but real. Nixon lost because he sweated, and the rot started (so to speak). Real politics and real people for me any day.
4 February 2010
11:2239605#13
But, while we discss the pathetic nature of these adverts promoting DC, poor old Gwyn gets shoved to the back and ignored. Hmm, who will hve the last laugh? Not the bloke no-one is talking about.
So, in the spirit of balance and using the style of the tv programmes, "What did Gwyn ever do for us"?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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4 February 2010
12:0339610#14
We have a successful Saatchi & Saatchi 1979 poster campaign to thank for 30 years of crap since then. Remember the "Labour Isn't Working" poster that saw the Tories romp home on the back of it?
Ever since then, one side or the other has been trying to emulate that campaign, and that's why we have endure this sort of crap now. I just wish politicans would stop trying to get elected on image and start having something of substance to make people vote for them. (Like the LibDem Howard referred to.)
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