It’s a membership leaflet from Labour.
One side is covered by a large photo of a politician addressing a crowd.
Gordon Brown perhaps? No.
Or even another Cabinet minister? No.
Or a popular figure from the past? No again.
Instead, they seem to have decided they’re all so unpopular that the way to get someone to join Labour is to use the picture of the leader of another country:
The reverse does have one mention of a Labour member. Admittedly it’s their General Secretary Ray Collins, and he only gets named in the imprint. But fair’s fair, there is his name in tiny print at the foot of the page.
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Says it all really – they’re relying on global and G20 as a narrative.
Going down with Brown…
Do Liberal Democrat membership recruitment leaflets only carry pictures of the party leader?
Yup, the one on my desk does 🙂
Surely that haircut, those shoulders and those ears can only be David Milliband? Brown Central will really explode when that penny drops.
All the party blurb (and I get a fair ammount) has pictures of Lib Dems in the UK, usually Party Leader or Deputy Leader, unless they’re from a particular candidate wanting my vote for somthing, in which case it’ll have their picture on it.
They’re not all very photogenic, none are addressing huge crowds in the united states, but they are at least relevent.
@mark pack Perhaps the Lib Dems should consider not putting its leader on the front of membership material for environmental reasons?!
Re: Matthew Cain – I don’t get it?
Mike,
presumably MC’s point is that we’ll have to pulp the leaflets next week when we depose Nick Clegg and replace him with Lembit Opik, or me, or whoever …
Very droll!
David, the ears should give it away: the politician in the picture is Obama.
Not sure if he’s a Labour party member though.