The Labour party's latest online video turns David Cameron's "Broken Britain" narrative on its head - with a positive twist.
After a week where the Labour party has been accused of negative campaigning, their latest online video turns David Cameron’s “Broken Britain” narrative on its head – with a positive twist.
On first viewing, I was a bit unsure by the worst party election broadcast, but stick with it for a clever twist.
Watch it:
The Conservatives have repeatedly talked down Britain during the election campaign:
• Chris Grayling has repeatedly misused crime statistics;
• Paul Krugman has dismissed comparisons made by Conservatives between the UK and Greece;
• Conservative scaremongering about the threat of a hung parliament is not backed up by market behaviour
• David Cameron has been challenged by Channel 4 Fact Check for his description of Labour’s poverty record;
• The Tories were criticised for erroneously claiming that half of teenagers in some areas fell pregnant; and
• Public Finance magazine showed that the Tories had misused incapacity benefit figures.
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12 Responses to ““Broken Britain” turned on its head”
Simon Taylor
RT @Conorpope: Fantastic. Really loathe the "broken Britain" rhetoric. RT @leftfootfwd: Labour turns "Broken Britain" on its head http://bit.ly/b5PE7M
Penfold
Change v hope. Broken Britain turned on it's head (via LeftFootForward) http://bit.ly/caB3yO
Conor Pope
Fantastic. Really loathe the "broken Britain" rhetoric. RT @leftfootfwd: Labour turns "Broken Britain" on its head http://bit.ly/b5PE7M
A Nate
The original is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA&feature=player_embedded
Robert
Very subtle.
Very clever.
It stays with Tory talking points.
Not a bad one at all.