We all laughed when lefties started mydavidcameron.com. A few Tories probably didn't; bless their posh little socks. Some of them got angry. That's presumably why they started mylabourposter.com. Unfortunately, apart from smug Tories, no one is laughing. Why?
1. It's not funny. The posters on there (Mr Blobby: "i've never voted labour before, there economic policies are just too crazy"??? Is that the best you can come up with???) derive their humour from petty stereotypes, pre-pubescent 'wackiness', and as-subtle-as-a-combine-harvester-through-your-front-window juxta positions. Mydavidcameron.com was funny. It was witty, intelligent and most importantly light hearted, where as the Tory equivalent reeks of bitterness. Bitterness is not funny. Its sad.
2. It's not warranted. Mydavidcameron.com was a response to Dave's frankly ridiculous airbrushed poster. He exhibited an appaling level of hubris in producing them, which is just asking for ridicule. The follow-up 'death-tax' and 'i've never voted tory before...' posters are less silly, but not without room for ridicule. Have Labour produced any elections posters yet? Have they been incredibly vain or mockably self-righteous? I wouldn't put it past them, but they're not there yet.
3. It's not nice. Of the dozen or so posters up there so far, 3-4 are very questionable, somewhat racist and certainly reactionary. The immigration poster, for example, showing hordes of immigrants at the gates of Britain could well have come from the BNP (whose rise they blame in a different poster on Labour), not to mention the fact that the people depicted would never be able to vote, being as they are either illegal immigrants or asylum seekers. The EU poster is xenophobic to the core, once again encouraging false fears based on false beliefs. The post-man pat electoral fraud one ("election fraud has grown under labour") misses the point that it is the Tories who have been responsible for most of this fraud, including some of the most serious offences (for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7303606.stm). The prison sentencing poster shows an attitude to justice that went out of fashion in the middle ages. These posters aren't humurous; they are horrible. The difference between the two is a few mates at the pub lightly ribbing each other and some big skinheads kicking the shit out of someone at closing time. The first is mean but amusing. The second makes you want to call the police.
4. It's done by the Tories. It impossible to deny I don't find them funny because i am incredibly biased against the conservatives, who I think are absolute pricks and will probably never think any different. None-the-less, everything i have said above is still true. Please do check it out and prove me wrong.
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