Dave the Chameleon Vs. Blair the Loathsome Reptile
While angry ex-Labour voters are assured that the local elections are about hard-working councillors, and not their great and glorious leader, Labour are using their political airtime to launch a negative campaign that focuses on the Tory leader.
This excellent quote (source) bears repeating: Blairites can only define themselves as progressive if they do so in a negative fashion - ie, we're not the Tories and we're not the BNP."
The site even has a 'hilarious' blog. Spare us.
And if you're going to talk about flip-flops, you'll want to watch out that you don't trip over this whopper that resulted in the needless deaths of thousands soldiers and civilians.
Here's some reports and reactions from around the traps:
BBC - Labour poll film attacks Cameron
Telegraph - Blair resorts to cartoon jibes at Dave the chameleon
Telegraph - If this isn't negative campaigning, then what is?
The Times - Dave and Labour's bad karma chameleon
Winston Fletcher - Labour will rue the day it portrayed its political opponent as a cute, clever, creature
Guy Fawkes - Labour Launch Assault on "Dave the Chameleon"
Post Reveries - Bad karma
Gordon's Republic - The politics of Dave
And here's a picture to brighten your day:
BBDO - Tony The Chameleon?
(See reactions to this most excellent picture here.)
UPDATE - Click here to read some responses to the ad.
This excellent quote (source) bears repeating: Blairites can only define themselves as progressive if they do so in a negative fashion - ie, we're not the Tories and we're not the BNP."
The site even has a 'hilarious' blog. Spare us.
And if you're going to talk about flip-flops, you'll want to watch out that you don't trip over this whopper that resulted in the needless deaths of thousands soldiers and civilians.
Here's some reports and reactions from around the traps:
BBC - Labour poll film attacks Cameron
Telegraph - Blair resorts to cartoon jibes at Dave the chameleon
Telegraph - If this isn't negative campaigning, then what is?
The Times - Dave and Labour's bad karma chameleon
Winston Fletcher - Labour will rue the day it portrayed its political opponent as a cute, clever, creature
Guy Fawkes - Labour Launch Assault on "Dave the Chameleon"
Post Reveries - Bad karma
Gordon's Republic - The politics of Dave
And here's a picture to brighten your day:
BBDO - Tony The Chameleon?
(See reactions to this most excellent picture here.)
UPDATE - Click here to read some responses to the ad.
posted by Tim at 2:21 PM
2 Comments:
It's got some substance behind it, but yes it's a nasty and pathetic attack; not a single policy put forward by Labour, just a bunch of insults, however true they are - although it's worth comparing it to Cameron's attack on Brown in his reply to the budget - it's nowhere near as venomous or vacuous as he was then.
Did you get your "adventures of dave the chameleon" labour party email? I got a little "thunderbird thinks this message might be an email scam" notification with it. Damn, that open source AI is getting remarkably sentient, isn't it?
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