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23 Responses to ““They’ll turn Great Britain into Little Britain””
cim
“As anyone who watches the show will know, Andy was not actually disabled and conned Lou into pushing him around.”
As if “disabled people are really faking it” wasn’t such a common ableist stereotype. (and indeed “disabled people are unintelligent” and “disabled people have unpleasant personalities”, both of which were also used by the show). That really does not improve the context this poster is in!
And… I’m not sure of the relevance of that to the poster. Hague is conning Cameron into pushing him around? Eh?
“Personally, I don’t think it’s offensive and think that most people who see it […] will have a chuckle too.”
That “humour” at the expense of disabled people usually gets a laugh is pretty well known, but that doesn’t make it right. It’s not really about the offensiveness of it, but about the harm using and thus reinforcing ableism does to disabled people and to wider society.
cim
…and it’s now gone from the Labour website.
Robert
GB’s words were fine in the debate – punchy and memorable and good.
Whoever dreams up these posters should realise not everyone lives their lives. Not everyone lives in their bubble. Not everyone has their sense of humour.
Even though they share the same politics.
Rob
Will you do yourself no service by defending this, you simply look like a mandarine. Admit it was a cock up and simply move on.
Shamik Das
It’s called humour. If you’re offended by the Little Britain tv show, or the Lou & Andy sketch in particular or are unaware of the sketch, well, fair enough, maybe you have a right to be offended.
On disabled rights generally, Labour has a record to be proud of.