Divide – and conquer?
The Tory Troll has written a good post about the Boris campaign’s use of fear to try to divide and win votes from frightened Londoners.
The post includes a scan of one of the leaflets Boris’s team were giving out at the Time Out hustings on Wednesday. The leaflet has been created by Photoshopping a genuine yellow Police witness appeal board, which presumably marked the site of someone’s real personal tragedy.
The Boris-stopper who took issue with the Boris team’s lies about crime ‘going up’ also took issue with the tastelessness of adapting this symbol of someone’s individual trauma to turn it into a cynical and scaremongering piece of campaign material, but of course they didn’t care – they’d just refused to back down over undisputable crime figures, after all, so listening to reason wasn’t their strong point.
Of course, Lynton Crosby is behind this nasty campaign, the Troll points out.
Crosby won elections by driving wedges between refugee and resident communities in Australia. Fears were deliberately stoked up and false horror stories circulated at a time when community relations were already at a low.
Now in London we are seeing the same tricks played again. Bad cop’s threats are scaring us into good cop’s arms. Already fearful people are encouraged to be even more fearful still. And once they’ve all run in to hide, a new fresh blond guy pops up and smiles.
Londoners, don’t let Boris and Lynton divide us: instead, let’s unite against the common enemy – by voting for anyone but Boris on 1 May!
April 6th, 2008 at 12.55
Boris and Lynton Crosby are the only people who can unite the WHOLE of London. All Ken can do is unite the left and the far left together in unison against common sense government. The only fear that is going on in this campaign is the fear of Londoners to walk on streets because they might get killed because Ken has let crime get out of control.
Ken needs to go and this blog need to get ready to cry when we, the voters of common sense kick Ken out of London.
April 6th, 2008 at 13.57
Sorry, I’m not sure I can respond to this: I can barely type through the tears of laughter at the suggestion that Lynton Crosby could unite anyone, let alone the whole of London.