Friday, April 01, 2005
Tories score another own goal
The Tory's faltering General Election campaign blundered into another controversy last night when senior police chiefs condemned their campaign advertisement on crime for its "misleading statistics", and the Archbishop of Canterbury warned against populist campaign language.
The fact is that the current Conservative Party poster campaign is playing on people's fears by distorting facts and appealing to the lowest common denominator. They are selectively using statistics to create a picture of Britain that no rational person would recognise whilst the tone of their campaign on asylum and immigration is, as the Archbishop of Canterbury implied, racist. They may be appealing to their core vote but they are doing so from the gutter.
The fact is that the current Conservative Party poster campaign is playing on people's fears by distorting facts and appealing to the lowest common denominator. They are selectively using statistics to create a picture of Britain that no rational person would recognise whilst the tone of their campaign on asylum and immigration is, as the Archbishop of Canterbury implied, racist. They may be appealing to their core vote but they are doing so from the gutter.
