Comments on: Quite simply, the best headline in a Labour leaflet – ever

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:06:14 +0000

Chris. I’ve seen “Labour promises nothing” on a Labour leaflet. Was about council tax but didn’t go down very well as few people read below headlines.

By: Chris Paul

Chris Paul — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:36:52 +0000

I’ve seen:

“Labour Gives You Nothing”

This was a reference to a zero council tax rise. Doesn’t quite work though does it?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:28:08 +0000

Maybe he has an abusive scot as his campaign manager?

By: David Heigham

David Heigham — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:08:07 +0000

Ass? or mule?

By: Cllr Carl Minns

Cllr Carl Minns — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:31 +0000

Yes….and the content of the leaflet was even better! And As for caligula, that is what some of the Labour group called their ex leader

By: Paul Walter

Paul Walter — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:18:39 +0000

PS There is a joke in here somewhere about Caligula, but I can’t quite grasp it.

By: Paul Walter

Paul Walter — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:17:45 +0000

I have a friend who has delivered so many Focuses that I often joke that the report of his funeral should say: “It’s a two horse hearse”

By: Cllr. Mike Powell

Cllr. Mike Powell — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:07:49 +0000

We haven’t got a mole writing the Labour leaflets in Hull have we? Did we follow it up by putting a leaflet out with a donkey on it?

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:45:06 +0000

Was that in response to an accusation levelled at him by an ex-girlfriend?

By: Matthew Huntbach

Matthew Huntbach — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:09:15 +0000

As Lance-Corporal Jones puts it, “They don’t like it up ‘em!”.

The Labour “union jack” leaflet in the recent LB Lewisham Downham ward by-election was only the latest in bizarre leaflets they’ve thrown at us there, they do get rattled very easily when we’ve won wards they think are naturally theirs.

Lesson from this is don’t let yourself get rattled, and if you are don’t show it in the stuff you put out to the punters. Revenge served cold (e.g. in the Focus you put out when they’ve gone away to wait for the next election) can work, but it must always be understated. Cllr Duwayne Brooks union jack tie at the count was a brilliant example of the subtle response to their idiocy.

By: Charlotte Gore

Charlotte Gore — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:42:33 +0000

Oh this is marvellous. He didn’t win then? I suppose it’s his fault for drawing attention to the Lib Dem’s favourite message, “it’s a two horse race!” and throwing reasonable doubt in people’s minds about whether or not he’s a horse.

I mean, no smoke without fire, right?

By: Caron

Caron — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:25:42 +0000

Not surprising we won by a mile, really, is it?

And how sad am I that I had to go and google to find out the result?