Is Anyone Impressed By Labour’S Latest Election Broadcast?

[naomi24]

Its worryingly vulgar puerility says much about the mentality behind it. Vote Labour? I think not.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10814170/Labour-declares-class-war-with-B-movie-attack-on-Tory-toffs.html

[andrew1707]

I thought it was terrible. It was a bit childish and didn't grab my attention at all.

Labour should try to run a more positive campaign and outline why they are different (if, indeed, they are!)

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[ladybirder]

Cringeworthy but I expect farrier will like it.

[mushroom25]

at least it wasn't a repeat of last week's broadcast, which is what the lib-dems treated us to this week.

[ludwig]

They've tried playing the 'toff' card before in a by-election (sorry , can't remember which but Labour were in power) and it was a spectacular failure. As I recall, everyone turned out in droves to vote for the toffs.

I don't think people react well to this kind of negativity. The continued popularity of Nigel Farage despite a sustained and increasingly desparate onslaught of ridicule from all directions should have told them that.

[Jomlett]

The former Obama strategist David Axelrod advising Labour must have strange ideas!

[anotheoldgit]

/// The advert ends: "The hardworking people of Britain say 'enough' to government just for the privileged few. Labour, hardworking Britain better
off." ///

"The hard working people of Britain"???

That's a laugh, is Labour now trying to butter up the hard working people of Britain, so as to prop up their core voters 'The never done a day's work in their lives people'?

[joggerjayne]

Typical trots.

What they continually overlook is ...

They are talking about the people who run the country.

Would you want to do it?

Would you want someone like you to do it?

Would you want some bloke from down the pub to do it?

I think, if you're going to run the country, you need to be a bit "elite" and not like us.

Otherwise, you end up with embarrassing oiks like John Prestcott in charge of things.

[Svejk]

///Would you want some bloke from down the pub to do it?///
Dai the Roof has some great ideas.

[joggerjayne]

Vote Dai The Roof for PM !

:0)

[anotheoldgit]

David Axelrod American, say no more isn't that way all American view us British, a load of Oxford/Cambridge speaking toffs?

Unless they are portraying the likes of chimney sweeps etc, then it is cap touching individuals saying such things as "yes gov", "thanks gov".

[mushroom25]

douglas adams had it right:-

//It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.//

[Baldric]

I think it says far more about Labour than they intended it to!

[andy-hughes]

In no particular order - it's badly executed - they should get Harry Enfield in if they want to make fun of the class system.

It's sledgehammer 'humour' is utterly puerile, and the clumsiness of the delivery obliterates the message.

It has a nasty personal attack motif which never works - the electorate want to know what the Opposition would do differently, not what they already know the Govermnent has got wrong.

If this is what employing an American strategist does - and how on earth would he have any grasp of the seriously outdated class steretotypes here - then the Opposition remain unelectable - no no change there.

[jomifl]

Ironic that the labour leadership can't see that declaring yourself a socialist doesn't do much to offset a privileged upbringing supported by rich and powerful parents who have wangled you into some cushy jobs that seem to have avoided the honour of honest manual labour...
I know quite a few 'socialists' most of them look down on the poor and underprivileged as if they carry some kind of contagion.

[BlueToffee]

I actually found it quite amusing, other than the fact that all political broadcasts are aimed at knocking their opponents, not telling us the virtues of their own policies.

It, and others, will have no effect on where I put my cross on the ballot paper though, my mind is already made up.

[Sqad]

I agree with Blue Toffee......I thought it was quite "entertaining"......over the years i have seen this type of Political Broadcast before, so i am immune to the "innuendos".....yes ...quite entertaining.

[mikey4444]

I agree Sqad and bluetoffee ! The fact that we are talking about it this morning means that it made an impact, on some of us at least.

I thought it was funny and entirely true ! I especially liked the line "Can we hunt him ? "

[Gromit]

Who exactly are they aiming that broadcast at? I cannot think of anyone being won over by that.

It was desperately unfunny. Badly scripted. Badly targetted. The message was lost.

The 'the coalition are all toffs' thing is ridiculous and untrue and therefore no basis for an advert.

A wasted opportunity 1/10 (the 1 is for the cat who I thought played his part particular well).

[naomi24]

//Who exactly are they aiming that broadcast at?//

I can only imagine it's aimed at people who cling doggedly to Old Labour ideology, unaware that it’s been dead and buried for years. I think it demonstrates just how out of touch Ed & Co really are.

[Gromit]

So will Ed be sacking Margaret Hodge, the richest woman in the Commons. Or the multimillionaire Shaun Woodward?

Or is being fabulously wealthy (as many Labour MPs are), an dbeing a toff completely different things. Labour voters might resent Cameron and Clegg for their inherited wealth, and never having done a proper days work in their lives. But this advert totally missed that.