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Kicked in the Taco Donating Member (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:38 AM
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British election posters- past and present
I've been looking at some classic posters from past elections, and it strikes me that most recent ones really are just empty crap compared to the classics of yesteryear, such as this one:



Sooo, it's just lucky that we have concerned citizens willing to take the necessary action to raise piss-poor efforts from the elections of today to the status of classics!
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:51 AM
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1. ...
:rofl:
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Kicked in the Taco Donating Member (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 08:24 AM
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2. then there's this doozy from 2001...
An eposter which was of course in no way whatsoever approved by or even known to anyone within the Labour Party.;)
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lockdown Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 11:01 AM
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4. Works for me!
lol, it's enough to make me canvass for a parachuted Blairite.
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Kicked in the Taco Donating Member (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 10:11 AM
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3. this one was put out by an old fanzine....
Edited on Tue Aug-23-05 10:12 AM by Kicked in the Taco
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 08:22 AM
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5. The 2005 Tory ones were depressing
Well, that goes without saying, of course, but they were more than usually depressing. They suggested that the Tories were explicitly targeting the stupid voter.
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Kicked in the Taco Donating Member (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:07 AM
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6. Agreed
The fact that this other piece of customisation of the same Tory poster was so disturbingly believable sums it up, I think:
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RogueTrooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 09:22 AM
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7. Some Old Favourites

A famously ineffective poster

An infamously effective poster

Standing for something
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