Reply to: Will the Saatchi brothers' poster campaign turn things around for Cameron?

[Moscow Mule]

What's not to like?

Well, he's absolutely excellent at getting interest free loans from his friends. Perhaps he'd be able to do the same for the country without ******* us all up the yingyang.

He'd also be ideal for increasing immigration after his form for acquiring passports for Brazilian rent boys.

[centurian]

Saatchis "Labour isn't working" poster prior to the 79 election (ironically saying that Labour had let unemployment get too high) seemed to help a bit.

Why not use the same photo - and just plonk a picture of a Northern Rock branch at the front of the queue

[Platypus]

With the Conservatives looking like they are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the imminent election, will the appointment of M&C Saatchi to produce some negative campaigning have the desired effect? Or will these be a turn off like the Tony Blair Demon Eyes posters of 1997?

Story and examples in the Daily Mail, sorry.

Love 'em !

In 1997 too many people liked Tony so demon eyes wasn't going to work. Today though I think many people have their concerns/suspicions about Gordo so I think the posters will work.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Of course he is. What else do you think the Constitutional Reform Bill is for? It allows life peers to resign so that they can stand for public office, as hereditary peers have long been able to do. A necessary step for a life peer on the way to No 10.

And why not? Peter Mandelson is clearly the most experienced politician available in Britain now. Architect of New Labour, with good business and international connections and understanding, intensely relaxed about people being very rich. He's got to be the best choice. What's not to like?

[expat]

He's coming to get you!

Of course he is. What else do you think the Constitutional Reform Bill is for? It allows life peers to resign so that they can stand for public office, as hereditary peers have long been able to do. A necessary step for a life peer on the way to No 10.

[Churchill]

He looks like a perv.

Well he does shag young Brazillian blokes in exchange for a British passport.

[Mich the Tester]

Agreed and you win today's predictable post award, but the question was whether they might be counter productive - what do you reckon?

Might be. Difficult to call; I think anyone who's even considering voting for another 5 years of Labour is a lost cause anyway; it's best to try and mobilize any hesitant tories and convince liberals to vote tory in a seat the tories can win.

[Xenophon]

He's coming to get you!

He looks like a perv.

[Mich the Tester]

Gordon's going anyway. It's who will replace him as the next Labour Prime Minister that worries me.

He's coming to get you!

[expat]

Anything that might help get rid of Gordon is welcome.

Gordon's going anyway. It's who will replace him as the next Labour Prime Minister that worries me.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Anything that might help get rid of Gordon is welcome.

Agreed and you win today's predictable post award, but the question was whether they might be counter productive - what do you reckon?

[Churchill]

Anything that might help get rid of Gordon is welcome.

I'll do it for £30k

[Mich the Tester]

Anything that might help get rid of Gordon is welcome.

[The Wikir Man]

I do love the best and worst rated comments

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The Poster of GB is quite an honest apraisal of the man. I hope many UK Voters will remember the period where-upon the Labour Government dragged us into illegal wars, terrorised its own people with ID cards and stealth Taxes and yes, he has plundered the Pensions of every working man and women in this land. The very people that keep the country going. I will not, for the remainder of my life, EVER vote for Labour.

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Of course, the "Labour isn't working" poster when unemployment was around one million was followed by Mrs Thatcher and unemployment of THREE million.
Even though I have no love for Labour, I guess that the new Saatchi posters will be about as accurate and fair as those from the 1970s!

But, it is the Mail.

[Doggy Styles]

Saatchis "Labour isn't working" poster prior to the 79 election (ironically saying that Labour had let unemployment get too high) seemed to help a bit.

Very true. I suppose it just depends on how negative campaigning is done.