The Conservatives are to axe David Cameron from their posters, just a month after the infamous airbrushed poster was rolled out across the country.
Today’s Telegraph reports that the Conservatives are to axe David Cameron from their posters, just a month after the infamous airbrushed poster was rolled out across the country.
The decision to quietly drop Cameron from the Tory advertising campaign follows weeks of ridicule at the giant billboards, the MyDavidCameron.com spoof poster generation site receiving hundreds of thousands of hits.
It comes in the wake of a slump in Cameron’s popularity, reported by Left Foot Forward earlier this week. His personal rating fell 9 points to 45% in the 18 months to January; in the same period, Gordon Brown’s rating rose 6 points to 35%.
And it also follows the news last month that the Tories had dropped the idea of putting “David Cameron’s Conservatives” as their official title on ballot papers, as used in their disastrous Ealing Southall by-election defeat.
All of which begs the question of who’ll replace him? “Boy” George Osborne, Chris “gaffe” Grayling, or Billy “baseball cap” Hague?! Answers below…
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12 Responses to “Brushed off: Cameron axed from Tory posters – but who’ll replace him… Osborne?!”
Richard Blogger
Anyone else listen into Osborne’s stage-managed Facebook “event”?
He only answered the planted questions. Whenever a question was asked you could strike it off his eight “benchmarks”. Pah!
One question he refused to answer: in his “benchmark” document Osborne says that he will be “accountable” but nowhere does he say what this will mean. Does he intend to resign when a benchmark is not met? Or does “accountability” mean the same “you get one chance every five years” that we have at the moment?
rob
Gordon brown….. five more years? Cos things are going soo well!