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23 Responses to ““They’ll turn Great Britain into Little Britain””
Ed Jacobs
As I understand, Gordon Brown’s child as cystic fibrosis which is also a disability. Its the ultimate tragedy that both our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader have had to go through such similar tragedies. Plus, I these really are spoofs and not Labour party posters – for a start, nowhere on them do they say the word Labour.
Matthew Taylor
RT @leftfootfwd: "They'll turn Great Britain into Little Britain" http://is.gd/bE1nT
cim
Ed Jacobs and others hoping they’re a spoof: Here’s the poster on the main Labour website. Definitely the real thing.
I am incredibly disappointed to see Labour – a party that claims to be “determined that the UK should always be a world leader in disability rights” is using a poster that so heavily relies on ableist stereotypes to get its point across, and have written to both my local candidate and the party to ask them to withdraw it immediately.
Will Straw
Thanks for all the comments. This poster was produced by the Labour party during the debate in response to Gordon Brown’s line that David Cameron’s policy was “Big Society at home, Little Britain abroad”.
I thought it was a good line and I think it’s a good poster which is why I posted it. Little Britain is one of the best known comedies of the last decade and “Lou & Andy” was arguably the most famous sketch on the show. As anyone who watches the show will know, Andy was not actually disabled and conned Lou into pushing him around.
When I initially tweeted the image at 10pm there were a lot of RTs and a range of comments including:
@LuckMuckyKnees – Amazing! RT @wdjstraw POSTER: “They’ll turn Great Britain into Little Britain” http://bit.ly/95dtsU
@grantblowers – RT @wdjstraw POSTER: “They’ll turn Great Britain into Little Britain” http://bit.ly/95dtsU >Excellent poster!
@dlindsell – Is this offensive or funny?-> POSTER: “They’ll turn Great Britain into Little Britain” http://bit.ly/95dtsU (via @wdjstraw)
@novocastrianrob – @wdjstraw That poster’s awful. Get rid of it if it’s left foot forward’s.
@northernheckler – @wdjstraw that’s a big vote loser Will – dreadful. Got to lose that poster.
Personally, I don’t think it’s offensive and think that most people who see it (probably quite a small group since I can’t imagine there are any plans to buy billboard sites for it) will have a chuckle too. But I can see why others have taken a different perspective and it would certainly be a pity if the good line in the speech was overshadowed by the ensuing controversy over the poster.
Evidence based? Really?
How is this evidence based?