Tuesday
Via Iain Dale's blog, I came across this nifty piece of Conservative Party electioneering poster art. As Mr Dale says, this is incredibly prescient. Of course, the glee of Mr Dale in finding this is somewhat undermined by the fact that the Conservatives have not, to put it mildly, covered themselves with glory on this issue down the years, even though, to be fair, that it was Churchill's Conservatives who axed ID cards and the final bits of rationing in the early 1950s. But whatever quibbles one might have, there is little doubt that today, Labour MPs will struggle ever to be taken seriously on the civil liberties issue. That is for certain.
Last night I listened to a great talk by Henry Porter, the journalist and book author, and the spy fiction novelist Charles Cumming. For Porter, civil liberties issues form a part of his latest book. Recommended.
Good aren't they? I like 30s art. Especially railway posters.
Mind you, these posters have been available for a while .http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/cpa/
Sam Tarran's had one in his sidebar for yonks: http://samtarran.blogspot.com/
Not that Iain Dale would ever arrive on anything years late and then take the credit or anything.
Posted by Blognor Regis at October 20, 2009 12:42 PM
The poster has been around for ages, of course, but was posted by Political Betting a couple of days ago.
Iain appears to have omitted to credit them in his post.
Posted by Mr Eugenides at October 20, 2009 03:03 PM
I don't see why it wouldn't work in the US either, just make the inspectors bald, with ponytails, and be sure they're adequately diverse.
Posted by Billll at October 21, 2009 12:36 AM
"Set the people free" is a good principle (as well as good slogan) in any election, in any country, at any time.
Posted by Paul Marks at October 22, 2009 09:04 PM
And yes - it is a great poster.
It actually means something in terms of principle - unlike the propaganda posters of the people of the government funded National "Endowment" for the Arts, with their "Hope" poster and so on.
All their posters mean is - "here is the God King, worship him".
Posted by Paul Marks at October 22, 2009 09:07 PM
