V for Vacuity
Now I don’t like to mock the afflicted but this poster that’s got a certain stripe of Tory clapping like seals is clearly the work of a moron. Take a second to have a good look.
We’ll move over the now familiar screeching ‘ZANU LABOUR’ rhetorical hyperbole that would seem to indicate that the purveyor was dropped on their head as a child.
No, it’s the ‘NOT IN MY NAME’ that’s got me foxed. For starters it’s a straight lift of a slogan protesting against a war that the Tories backed.
And of course these things aren’t being done in the name of the Tories. Doesn’t it really go without saying? Did anybody think these things were being done in the name of the Conservative Party (explicitly at least)?
Do Tories really need to deny the policies of the government? Does anyone, ever, look at ID cards, abused anti-terror legislation and physically assaulted asylum seekers and think, ‘Huh, if it wasn’t for the bloody Tories…’?
And another thing. ‘V’ in V for Vendetta, from which the poster’s imagery is, ahem, borrowed, was an anarchist. Not. A. Bloody. Tory. The book was written by Alan Moore in response to what he saw around him in Thatcher’s Britain.
Like I said, the work of a feckin’ moron.
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
| See also • 42 days: stick a fork in it… • Doing the BNP’s job • Own Goal? |
• Permalink • Trackback • Subscribe |
|
• Filed under Tories |
• |
Are you saying that a Zanu Labour poster has been published on the blog of the executive editor of the impartial Total Politics?
Words fail me. (© The Mainly Dale)
Hey, I didn’t say that. But yes.
Hey, I didn’t say that. But I agree.
It’s also amusing how ‘Tory Bear’ (aka Harry Cole) is an anonymous gossip blogger by day and fearless campaigner for transparency by night.
That may be one of the most bizarre political artifacts I’ve clapped eyes on. It’s up there with Michael Gove, giddy on that post-Obama high, claiming the Conservatives have been the party ‘opposed to the establishment’ traditionally.
Leonard’s already said it, but I just have to echo him… that is truly bizarre. The idea that V for Vendetta is being appropriated by the tories. The party of Thatcher!? I’d like to make some incisive remark, but each time I try to think about it I get a big neon sign that reads “Does Not Compute” flashing in my mind.
Tell me about it. Every time I see that image, my mind produces a blue screen of death.
“Not in my name” was a slogan also used by survivors of the be bombings when the government tried to use it - and them - as a justification for yet more civil liberties grabs. if the Tories are openly distancing themselves from these power grabs - and they meant it - then good. I’m not exactly holding my breath, though. Tribal politics is simply more of the same - just a different coloured rosette.
Oops… I really must proof read before posting.
That should be “survivors of the tube bombings” and they mean it”
Words fail me.
Oh, wait, maybe they don’t… V was not merely an anarchist, he was an anarchist terrorist. His first major act in the book is to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Is that really the sort of thing the Tories, of all people, want to be associated with?
It’s just ‘down-with-the-kidsism’.
“Hey, that V for Vendetta, that was a cool film the kids liked!* He was, like, totally against the government, and so’re we! And, like, all those anti-Scientology guys dressed up like him for… some reason. Probably because it was on Internet. Hey, and to really ram the point home, let’s use that slogan they had on the anti-war placards and draw up a spurious comparison to the ruling Zimbabwean party!”
Whoever made it, I’m sure their parents are proud.
*It wasn’t; they didn’t.
Judging by their (surely genuine) objection to the use of the word ‘grooming’ and its (surely obvious) clear association with child molestation and terrorism, I would say not.
That was directed at Dunc, BTW.
Still can’t get the hang of this new-fangled threading. It’s like fiddling* with small change in new money.
(*Hey, does anyone want to be outraged about that word? Now’s your chance.)