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Dear god! Who is advising him on doing these ridiculous stunts!
****ing hell imagine taking financial advice from someone who doesn't know the Government has its own bank out of which he paid 330bn state support (current estimates.) then pretended it was later financed from a collapsing private sector.
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I love the Twitter readers have added context
Is this
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No seriously....
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https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1775882749921911191?t=X7CnvbqLtfrKvvsVZhTFpw&s=19
As a piece of design work - Viz could not better that.
Holy shit.
It's so bad I don't know where to start.
I'm not saying that just because it's the Tories 'cos Labour have had horseshit comms but good Christ.
I suppose in some ways it's honest - war, footy, empire, foreign manufacturing passed off as British - but also shows everything that is appalling too (apart from Chris Nolan. Ahem.)
Wow! Words genuinely fail me
Does the Tory use of the "right charlie" mean that if Labour win a massive mandate they can axe the monarchy.....
It’s so bad I don’t know where to start.
I would start by avoiding the image and going for the "doomsters and naysayers" opener. Has whoever wrote that looked at the daily heil and torygraph recently?
Going to the image, anyone got any idea what the thing in the bottom right is?
Unelected head of state, unelected prime Minister, euro fighter, no women's footie team, just slashed funding for the arts.
My eye is drawn to the thick 'white border' around all the back of the cereal box cut outs.
Going to the image, anyone got any idea what the thing in the bottom right is?
It's the crane at felixstowe port but it looks more like the statue of Liberty at the end of planet of the apes. Which is nicely Freudian
Imax Camera - Canadian.
https://twitter.com/coldwarsteve/status/1765680532589834708
It kind resonates as my mother is current sleeping in a corridor of Norwich hospital with a broken hip as they have no beds on the ward.
Going to the image, anyone got any idea what the thing in the bottom right is?
Star Destroyer?
It’s the crane at felixstowe port but it looks more like the statue of Liberty at the end of planet of the apes.
Ah, I didnt spot that the image was cropped as I tend to avoid opening musks crap nowadays.
Somewhat odd choice. I wonder what the significance is supposed to be.
It kind resonates as my mother is current sleeping in a corridor of Norwich hospital with a broken hip as they have no beds on the ward.
That's utterly sh*t mate. I hope she is in a ward and on the mend asap.
As for the Tory Tweet? I just dont know, it's like an organisational madness. The Tories broke Britain and managed to break themselves along the way.
Quiet an achievement.
I know I'm usually first to criticise the graphic design skills of the Tory Friday afternoon intern, but even by their standards that 'poster' is astonishing. Pretty much speechless.
So much visual and conceptual nope in one small place.
Not enough union flags for my liking. Bloody communists!
Nice of them to let the work experience kid do the design work though
If you read it in Jeremy Clarksons voice it sounds better.
Who are we apparently more powerful than? USA or China?
What a shitshow.
Who are we apparently more powerful than? USA or China?
Personally I think its being a bit naysayery to say we are only the second most powerful country in the world.
This interns sense of patriotism is only matched by their photoshop skills.
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Who are we apparently more powerful than? USA or China?
They had me wondering the same, they link to an Express article (shocker) that uses the metric quoted below, which as we all know, is how great global powers have measured themselves since Roman times:
According to Brand Finance's 2024 Global Soft Power Index
China only came in third. Which they must be gutted about.
Losers.
Bottom right is the MSC Zoe, a Korean built and Swiss owned vessel sailing under the Panamanian flag.
I suppose it's too much to assume that's actually a picture of a UK port.
*you have to click the Twitter link to see the full picture. There's also a picture of the England football team as we all know England = Britain.
I just noticed the lil' chap has been made bigger than the King too... Isn't that treason to your average Tory?😉
I just noticed the lil’ chap has been made bigger than the King too… Isn’t that treason to your average Tory?😉
Is that a reference to William Wraggs dick pics?
Is that a reference to William Wraggs dick pics?
Lol, I had to Google that. I'm totally shocked that a Tory MP was blackmailed into giving away contact details. Shocked I say.
Does the latest dick pic expose mean yet another by-election for Rishi to lose then?
Does the latest dick pic expose mean yet another by-election for Rishi to lose then?
I would say they need a *ing leash round their necks and led about the place, told who they can and cannot speak to but then thought……nah, that’s what got us here in the first place and they’d just get off on it, imagine that?……A *ing rampant Wragg humping your leg in public?
What do they mean 2nd most powerful? Who's number one?
I reckon we can take them - we're British after all - we should not rest until we're number one.
Lots of negative ninnies whining about The Party's latest poster. I am not sure its true either - only second, come on get real. Can the USA wield the Old Man in The Sparkly Hat? Can be deployed in seconds . Total Universal Domination.
Does the latest dick pic expose mean yet another by-election for Rishi to lose then?
Tricky one to guess.
Its with a consenting adult (well adults most likely) which is an advantage over most of the recent scandals.
He is also a victim and I cant see it triggering any investigation under the standards committee for that reason.
Therefore depend purely on media/political pressure on him to "decide" to quit and so far the former seems mostly sympathetic.
Since its likely to be tried again there is the consideration for the government/state as a whole that we really want any other targets to report it so treating him harshly could undo this. I am guessing that he told the investigation into the spearfishing vs them figuring he was the common factor.
So I would go for no it wont unless its his choice and there I would tend to expect just a decision not to stand at the GE instead.
He should go - he put himself in a position (so to speak) that allowed him to be compromised.
It's ok for the likes of us to send nudes but we're not public servants, who should be held to the highest of standards.
Bill Wragg had already announced he wouldn’t be standing for re-election before all this kicked off
There's something wrong with these people in government
Universities - "the funding model is broken, we need help, it's becoming harder for poorer people to access higher education"
Government - "here's even less money, that'll fix it"
The cuts, outlined by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, in guidance to the universities regulator, will also reduce funding for Uni-Connect, which runs programmes aimed at widening access to higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to £20m, a third of its 2020-21 budget.
Linking this back to the poster saying we're the second most powerful nation due to soft power - our cultural industries (Inc the BBC) are a significant contributing factor in that. So why are they so hell bent on breaking them?
They're actual philistines
So why are they so hell bent on breaking them?
There was , to be fair, quite significant help to the Arts and some tax breaks to film industry in the last budget.
Found a interesting long-form article in the New Yorker about this Tory administration. Worth a read
What has 14 years of Conservative rule done to Britain
Does the latest dick pic expose mean yet another by-election for Rishi to lose then?
...getting the member out is what got them into this situation.
As I remarked to my wife over breakfast this morning, I must be last remaining bloke on the planet never to have sent a dick pick in my life. That does seem to be the case, she was worryingly quick to agree.
China only came in third. Which they must be gutted about.
Losers.
In terms of 'soft power projection' though, the Chinese own a large chunk of Thames Water, and have been pumping millions of jobbies into the river next to the Houses of Parliament for the last few years.
@Binners How drunk would you need to be to produce the stunning composite picture on the previous page?
@Sandwich - My (somewhat limited) professional integrity means I couldn't bring myself to produce such an abomination, I'm afraid
I've always said that there has never been any decent design produced by any right wing party or organisation for the simple reason that they all demand flags, then some more flags, garish primary colours and horrible blocky typefaces ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Thats before you even get into the subject matter of military hardware, vainglorious politicians and members of the royal family
All elements that any decent designer will avoid like the plague
There was , to be fair, quite significant help to the Arts and some tax breaks to film industry in the last budget.
True, the tax breaks for filming have brought in significant increases in Hollywood productions. But it doesn't help the pipeline of talent, or less main stream culture that actually brings the innovation.
Jobbing wages in the arts are stagnant. Theatres, museums, and music venues are closing. Creative arts courses at school, FE, and HE levels are all being cut because of cost.
Has anyone else had the crime survey through?
I had a letter from them with a pre-paid envelope.
So the survey has gone in the bin & I have written piss off on the original envelope & will post it back to them.
But it doesn’t help the pipeline of talent, or less main stream culture that actually brings the innovation.
This is a major issue in all sorts of areas. There's no long-term stable funding to plan for development, innovation etc. There are piecemeal funding pots, randomly announced, a bidding process (discussed on the previous page) where you get multiple venues bidding against each other for the same funds, The bulk of it goes to the already well-funded Royal Opera House (for example) and all the other opera houses are left out in the cold or given a few crumbs from the same plate.
You can add in whichever venue you want cos the process is the same across all the arts & culture.
It's actually the very opposite of levelling up. Well-performing places tend to be well-funded anyway - they've got the crowds going in the doors, they can afford the talent and the staff and they've got the name to trade on. So in a funding bid, they get highly marked cos they're already good so they get more funding.
And the poorer places (who can't afford the talent, the maintenance and running costs, the same number of shows and who are by their very nature appealing to far smaller regional audiences) get down-marked for being a bit "less good" and they get reduced funding.
It happened in sport (sports with good Olympic medal hauls got loads more funding, sports that didn't score, got their funding cut which deprives them of any chance of ever improving).
Same in schools and universities.
And then the poverty gap widens and the "lesser performing" institutions can be bullied a bit and told they're shit and if they only tried a bit harder, they'd be fine. Bit like the poor people who are told they'd be CEOs and hedge fund managers if only they worked a bit harder. It's all just culture war.
Jobbing wages in the arts are stagnant. Theatres, museums, and music venues are closing. Creative arts courses at school, FE, and HE levels are all being cut because of cost.
I've seen a few jobs for local venues - at management level, that are looking to pay around £21,000 for a venue manager. With a huge amount of responsibility.
You're only going to attract passionate or incompetent people with that pay for a management role.
So the survey has gone in the bin & I have written piss off on the original envelope & will post it back to them.
Constructive then
Wragg is also pretty compromised from within the Tory party he was the MP that went to the police alleging bullying by the whips
Irrespective of the sexual aspect of sending dick pics, you've got to seriously question the integrity and decision-making abilities of these people.
So how were you blackmailed Mr Wragg?
Oh well I sent some random guy on a dating website explicit pics that identified me as a senior MP...
Do MPs not have to go through some sort of IT security training, anti-blackmail, anti-fraud stuff? Does it not come up as Page 1 in the security clearance dossier?!
Oh well I sent some random guy on a dating website explicit pics that identified me as a senior MP…
It wasnt just him. Its reported two of the mps whose numbers he gave out chatted with the attacker for a while and then started exchanging explicit photos.
Do MPs not have to go through some sort of IT security training, anti-blackmail, anti-fraud stuff?
Nah, they’re shitty details just for little people. Narcissism and unconscious incompetence gets you a pass.
I must be last remaining bloke on the planet never to have sent a dick pick in my life.
Oi! Joint last...
Re the arts funding, what's worse is that it's basically *-all money. Even the catastrophic big cut was only about £18m IIRC, this freeze is saving about half a million quid. It's nothing in governmental terms and everything to students and institutions.
But it's also provided a nice smokescreen for the other cuts. The uni-connect one is just intentionally destructive, that's a really good value-for-money scheme that had a reach that's fairly different to a lot of other widening access schemes, they've lost 2/3ds of their budget in 3 years. And again it's * all money, it's £40m, individual institutions spend more on that on trying and do what uni-connect does for the whole country and they won't be able to fill that gap because of the different approaches. It provides highly regarded support to teachers, as well as to students, it's one of the few approaches that's proved really succesful at overcoming the challenges of interviewing for university, for instance. But the cuts were a hatchet job, it's just left them incapable of doing a bunch of the most impactful things they did. These are lifechanging things and sometimes the slack just can't be picked up anywhere else.
And it's not just arts either- they're doign their best to pass this whole thing off as if it's targeting "low value" stuff, as ever, but it's a below-inflation increase for engineering and medicine. And there'll be other things that I've not even seen.
TBF I believe the arts funding freeze was designed solely to provid that smokescreen, it serves no other purpose, the financial impact is too trivial. Just ruin a few lives to make a marginally better bad headline.
Government – “here’s even less money, that’ll fix it”
Welcome to the world of primary care. Money being diverted from us to hospitals for a decade now...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68740332
I think the most shocking thing about this having seen his pic (face - not the other) is he's 36 according to the report.
Love how they are trying to spin it
The incident has raised concerns about so-called spearphishing attacks, in which emails or messages are used to obtain an individual's sensitive information.
It is unclear who is behind the unsolicited messages. Some MPs have expressed concerns that a foreign power, such as China and Russia, could be involved.
Yes of course it was cos Putin loves a dick pic.
spearphishing
And look what he just phished out....
I must be last remaining bloke on the planet never to have sent a dick pick in my life.
My dick video was broadcast worldwide. It's bloody famous.
Niche audience though.
I hope Putin saw my didgeridoo, it will haunt his dreams.
Am I alone in feeling sorry for Wragg?
Obviously I'd rather go to the pub with Poopscoop.
I require no photos from either!
Am I alone in feeling sorry for Wragg?
Look on the bright side. Whichever village he’s from will soon be getting its idiot back.
I’m still incredulous that someone in such a high profile position was sending out photos of his cobblers to random strangers on the interweb
Thats a whole different level of stupid
Can't believe they pulled that world-beating tweet/poster. Don't they normally double down? Probably working on an even bolder design, dialled up to 11!
I thought they were on it!
binners forgets the Labour isn't working campaign by Saatchi, back in the day when they were prepared to pay professionals rather than interns to do their advertising.
Is the King doing a soft nazi salute to Rishi? Can't seem to bowing to Rishi bullshit.
Is any of the hardware British? Aston owned by Ford with Mercedes. Hawks made by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, eurofighter sorry typhoon, the Lockheed martin f35. Or does this show our ability to work with partners to deliver world class projects.
The king has just been going through some cherished memories of KLF videos and channelling Tammy.
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What! They cancelled Brian?
Alongside the obviously awful standard of the design by the work experience kid, the claims being made have more than a whiff of the tractor production figures at the fag end of communism.
Nice to see the level of professionalism on display though. They failed to do the requisite checks on legal use of image rights, that wouldn't have made it past a sub-ed on a regional newspaper.
That says it all