Reply #1: I'm surprised this has been banned [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

and that's a bit worrying. Normally with something like this, the company puts the advert out, waits for the complaints and the newspaper articles, and then withdraws the advert, having gained the free publicity.

As they say, the advert is clearly ridiculous (and would have passed completely unnoticed in Enfield's TV show), and a few might think it is slightly insulting to Churchill, but that normally doesn't get a ban. Maybe ther are going to hold adverts to higher standards than shows, on the grounds that you don't know when an advert is coming on, so the "just don't watch it" argument doesn't apply.