Election time

You know it’s election time when your television is delivering a lot more morbid content than usual.

Seems to me that our politicians are a huge fan of FUD campaigning. Advertisements which offer white bold text on black backgrounds, black and white images of politicians with ambiguous but implied compromising facial expressions, deep voiceovers and abrupt , harsh sound effects.

All political parties do when advertising is slag off other campaigners. It’s all well and good that MP Joe Bloggs is apparently a nasty man who says silly things and gesticulates ridiculously while doing so, but what do you have to offer in his place?

Nothing?

I thought as much.

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Published:
03.09.09 / 10am
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