The sun sets on Labour
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 
You can't help but like the cover of Labour's election manifesto. It's bright and cheerful, with a nuclear family (shome mishtake shurely?) holding centre stage and not a house or high rise development to spoil the view of Britain's beautiful, rolling countryside.
As some people have commented, though, it is highly reminiscent of one or two posters from the old Soviet Union empire (China too). They had a sun-speckled vision of the future as well.
Story HERE.
PS. I have just seen the cover of the Conservative party manifesto. The contrast with Labour's is ... well, see for yourself. Click HERE and scroll down.
The Tory slogan - "Invitation to the join the government of Britain" - is original. And clever.
The polls may not show it, but as things stand Cameron is going to win this election without breaking sweat.
Next: what the parties are saying about smoking and tobacco ...
Reader Comments (13)
Lovely poster by the Red Brigade !
What it needs - by way of accompaniment - is a jaunty little melody from the Thirties:
"The Sun has got his hat on,
Hip-hip-hip-hooray !
The Sun has got his hat on,
And he's coming out today."
That - and some cheering news about this month's pig-iron production quotas should be enough to set us on the path to the New Jerusalem.
It looks to me remarkably like those rather cheesy Watchtower booklets that the Jehovah’s Witnesses always stick through the letterbox when you are lucky enough to be out when they call. You know, the ones where everyone is smiling rather manically at each other and where the sun is always shining on laughing, harmonious family groups.
And, for all you conspiracy theorists out there, aren’t there a lot of theories about the “sun/eye” symbol which, if you are of that frame of mind, is just a little, teeny bit obvious here?
Misty -
Yes, quite !
But NEVER underestimate the Power of Symbolism: from the Priesthood to the Advertising Agency, its efficacy has been proven, and its use refined, over thousands of years.
Just think how much emotion the Swastika STILL inspires in us - unlike (say) the Hammer and Sickle. This despite the fact that both are 'associated' with the most terrible oppression and mass slaughter.
WE, naturaly, are far too smart to be fooled.
Aren't we ?
PS:
'Conspiracy Factualist' might now be a more appropriate term than its lazily ubiquitous alternative. (Just a thought).
I actually believe that Cameron will not achieve an overall majority and if he flunks the televised debates he might find himself in opposition again to a coalition government.
The man is a snob who has no chance of attracting the votes from the man in the street. He needs to convince die hard Labour voters to switch. Given that he intends to remove the hunting ban but not the smoking ban shows where his priorities lie.
The economic policies seem garbled and vague while I would not trust the Shadow Chancellor to run my bath. There will be a very low turnout and a large percentage of spoiled, protest and tactical voting and I believe that Camercon will be responsible for not winning an election against the most unpopular government in recent history. His legacy will be that he lost a two horse race even though the other horse had only three legs.
Bloody right too Michael Peopless. These tory toffs make me sick. Going to end the hunting ban is he? That's about the strength of these people isn't it, after all why should we give a shit about some little minority group who like hunting? The law says hunting is banned and that should be the end of the story!
At least with New Labour you know where you are going. Gordon might have only one eye but at least its pointed in the right direction, and I am going to follow it.
Yes - at least with New Labour you know where you are going - to hell in a handcart, as Richard Littlejohn frequently writes.
http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?storycode=59146
Roger. Here is an interview Camercon gave to the Publican magazine where he states that the public have accepted the smoking ban and we just have to move on.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-pledges-to-hold-free-vote-on-fox-hunting-1934051.html
Here is an interview he gave on 5 Live where he shows his libertarian ways only apply to his Toff pals.
It is not difficult to spot the difference and I do not see how the middle or working classes can vote for this upper class twit.
Roger C -
Oh dear, oh dear...................
"Gordon might have only one eye but at least its pointed in the right direction."
Yes - Pyongyang !
And while I share your sentiments about the current bunch of circus clowns and capering midgets, I wouldn't tar ALL 'Tory Toffs' with the same brush.
The (seventh) Earl of Shaftesbury, for example, was as High Tory as you could get, but was responsible for VAST improvements in the lives of the working classes via the Factory Acts of 1847 and 1853, and the Coal Mines Act of 1842, the mentally ill via the Lunacy Act 1845, and the out-and-out poor via his support for free education in the so-called Ragged Schools. He was also an ardent promoter of Florence Nightingale and all HER works.
Tory scum ?
Somehow, I don't think they'll be replacing HIS famous monument in Piccadilly Circus with a forty-foot statue of Great Leader Brown just yet.
Do you ?
Mr Poepless, you don't have to tell me mate. I agree with you completely. Would anyone in their right mind vote for a party that want to overturn a ban?
We need to stick together on this and fight people like camercomb. The law is the law is the law. A vote for camercomb is a vote for ukip.
The Tory's have an insurmountable problem in getting elected with Dave Cameron at the helm.
He just doesent cut the mustard and is no leader.
Its the same with a lot of countries in Europe, they all have disastrous oppositions.
Guess we all took our eye off the ball in letting quislings be elected in the mythical good times.
Roger C -
Apologies !
My Irony-Detection Apparatus suffered a brief malfunction earlier.
Must be the Spring weather.
Or too much Scotch in my coffee................
I'm surprised Labour didnt have any gays or lesbians on the cover of their election manifesto as they are so accomodating to Minorities, except smokers that is!
Its amazing that New Labour has to resort to the old values of the family unit status quo to promote their 'going forward' mantra of A future Fair for All!!!
Its all bullshit is what I say.
Roger.
The fact is that Camercon talks of removing a ban that affects him and his upper class pals but will keep a ban that affects a quarter of the adult population.
He is a hypocrite and while I have no particular time for Brown, I certainly do not want him replaced by somebody worse.