For a new take on the British General Election, view the movie here.
http://www.theuncredibles.co.uk/
(Quick note for US readers, the Conservatives use blue as their national color, the Labout Party red and Libdems yellow)
Sorry about the short entry but Welshman’s excellent background piece is off the radar on the lists.
Unfortunately I have not been able to find a reference to the hilariously bad opening of UKIP’s election broadcast featuring a blue/green rubber “EU” octopus ravaging London.
Update [2005-4-29 12:42:54 by Londonbear]: Now linked below the fold
Someone needs to locate the Octopus.
Oh my god! That is fantastic! I’m going back to play it again!
Found the entire broadcast – the first minute or so is the important thing.
http://www.ukip.org/cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://212.90.32.98/ppb2005_0001.wmv
Most people believe Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy is more trustworthy than Tony Blair or Michael Howard, a new poll has revealed.
A YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph found that only
With less than a week before the General Election, Labour maintained its poll lead
The gap was identical to a similar poll commissioned by YouGov last weekend.
ELECTION 2005 — VIDEO
A live TV audience questioned the three main party leaders in a special edition of BBC One’s Question Time. Charles Kennedy, Michael Howard and Tony Blair appeared in turn each for 30 minutes.
Tony Blair
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
I thought the voiceover pastiche of the opening paragraph from the War of the Worlds (before the octopus appeared)and the politicians talking to camera (after the octopus)were quite well done. The EU octopus itself was an inadequate special effect. It was comical rather than frightening. If UKIP were going to do something like that they needed a larger budget.
The overall effect was that UKIP had a deadly serious message that the EU endangered Britain, but it was all slightly demented in a relatively amiable way.
Call me cynical but is this why we’re all of a sudden seing all these headlines in major media, such as this from today’s BBC:
Hundreds found in Iraq mass grave