The wholt thing’s a bit reminiscent of James Purnell’s photoshopping himself into photos of hospital openings. A couple of weeks of hilarity, putting him into the last supper or the meeting at Yalta, and then it all got dull. Anyone else remember that?

“Thinking more about this – Guido’s desperate attacks go in Labour’s favour. The more the media talks about those posters and the airbrushing, the more it hurts Cameron.”

Are you are serious that a media narrative of Labour manipulating images to make a personal attack is a good idea? I’m sure you’re familiar with the poll thumping labour took after the McBride affair. Having the media present Labour as dishonest again is hardly a good idea.

This spoofing of posters online is fun, and often funny (it certainly should bruise a few advertising executives egos). It is not something a political party should be doing, as it just makes them look cheap and opportunistic (as Guido’s first post on the poster says, in his own style). To then manipulate the image, thus making the image ‘a lie’ is going to look manipulative as well. Voters pick up on this sort of thing. I don’t support Labour, but for the sake of a healthy democracy they maybe should stop messing around with photoshop and actually run some positive messages about why we should vote for them.

You’re forgeting the cross-posts with Pickled Politics which double that number.

Sad to see Unity sucked into Sunny’s petty obsession with other bloggers.

I’m not so sure – the obvious comeback to the ‘fake’ argument is simply to say they we never tried to pretend it was real in the first place and this is all just the usual manufactured outrage that Tories indulge in when faced with an uncomfortable truth.

Whether Brown can sell that argument convincingly or not is open to question, but after seeing the way he handled Paxman, last week, if Mandelson gets involved then it could easily be the Tories that land in the shit for trying to make something of it.

Is that the best you’ve got?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2422245.ece

That’s all. As per our recent twitter conversation I’m probably just being naive and expecting too much of people – ever the optimist.

Black is White

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8458298.stm

Convenient timing for Labour to have ended racism and be able to focus their attention on the millions of voting age poor white people.

Liam – not really underhand – it’s obvious that the whole thing is a spoof. We’ve been running spoof posters for weeks. Why can’t Labour do the same?

Though it is funny to watch Paul Staines whine about negative campaigning and offer to give the party some election advice. I think they’re quite happy for the publicity

You cocks

Nice to see Beau Bo still active and up tp mischief