Rather nice graphic from Liberal Martin:
* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.
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This looks confused to me.
The impression given by the message top left is that this is about an internal strucggle within the Conservative party. This impression is supported by the picture on the right. The word Populus mid-left suggests that the poll result is from the population, rather than just the part that votes Conservative. Up to this point the poster is advertising Conservatives, and the flag can be taken to confirm this.The bird could just as well be taken as a Conservative emblem as a LibDem one, and so could the capitalized message.
Then, when the viewer realises that the yellow symbolizes LibDem, the shock realization of having been wrong about the poster, and thecolour-contrast with the red-white-and-blue, suggests that LibDems are a party of dissonance rather than agreement.
It looks pro-PM, and the public is more concerned by who is leading the party and what they think rather than what some amorphous mass of back benchers and members think (as the Lib Dems are discovering).
Trying to reclaim the flag and Britishness from the Tories is good, but it will take more than one poster.
… but it could work with a different quote.
It may be amusing enough as a bit of point-scoring on these particular policies, but it’s pretty vacuous as a general principle.
No doubt the BNP could produce something similar – highlighting issues that most of the electorate would consider far more important than same-sex marriage or Lords reform.
I think it is good and I have put it on my FB.
The Tories like to blame the Lib Dems for their unpopularity, but actually it is their policies on the economy and public sector reform that is making the Lib Dems unpopular.
This looks like a modernising Tory poster talking up the PM as a man not afraid to take his party on over social issues which the public support. Which, I have to say, is quite admirable.
The lib dem bird looks like somebody put it there by mistake when they meant to use the tory tree logo.
If the lib-dems are not interested in the flag the party is going nowhere.
I think that the message and idea is good but the artworking (especially of the flag) is a confused mess.
I fear Chris is right.
No mention of the lib dem blind love for Europe though? Probably not so in touch with the public on that one. Having said that I admire the attempts of tax redistribution and the focus on social mobility (pupil premium etc etc…)
There is no “blind love for Europe”. Unfortunately, however, as far as most of the political media are concerned there are only two positions that it is possible for anyone to take on Europe: absolute opposiotion or what you call “blind love” (i.e. uncritical support). And whatever Lib Dems actually say, the party’s position tends to be shoehorned into the latter. This is why I think the Lib Dems need to fight the next European Parliamentary election on European issues (i.e. things like the CAP, trade etc; BTW whether the UK remains part of the EU or joins the Euro is a domestic issue, not a European issue, and hance nothing to do with the European Parliament). This way we can show that there *are* differences and controversies in policy in the EU (not necessarily ABOUT the EU), over which voters have influence.
The poster only works for those of us who happen to know Cameron’s position, and what the Tory Party ‘instincts’
are, but it needs to be spelt out for the ‘ordinary bloke’… And the 65% bit, does it mean 65% of voters? or what?
As for the flag and Libby, we need to do the bird in olympic style artworked flag on a yellow background or just a yellow libby, with black edging, central on a union flag background..
Please, please, please, let’s not try to out “British” the Tory’s and the Right. This kind of PROPAGANDA sends shivers down my spine, for the end result is certainly not going to be a more inclusive and respecting society, and as for the statement “The Party with British instincts”, what are these?
Whilst out canvassing BNP, UKIP and Tory voters have been very keen to identify to me what they believe these instincts are, and these seem to be corroborated by some of the daily papers. Again, these do not seem to be very healthy for some of us in the short term, and the whole of society ultimately.