Manners maketh the party
So I’m going through all the election leaflets we got this year, all the vapid, patronising and platitudinous crap that’s supposed to convince us to lend our support to this party or that.
And you know what? There’s not a single ‘please’ in this asking (‘VOTE BLAH’ is more of a command, really). Not a single ‘thank you’. Not from red, blue, yellow, green, purple or swastika. Not even in the ‘personal’ one I got from Gordon Brown. There’s your relationship between politics and people.
Ignorant pricks.
Posted on June 4th, 2009 at 9:28am under Miscellaneous misanthropy, UK politics
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It’d sound pretty needy though. “Please vote BNP. Please! We’ll be your best friend!”
What Alex said—read some feedback research on it once (the amount of work that goes in to making effective leaflets and they still look crap half the time).
Feedback is that most voters react badly subconsciously, it makes it look like you’re pleading or desperate, when you need to be looking authoritative and a likely winner. Which is bloody annoying, some of the grammar rules you have to break to make things work effectively is crazy. Bloody economists and game theorists…
so true
but I have still been and exercised my democratic right to vote
If you don’t ask nicely, you don’t get.
38% turn-out here we come?
The only leaflets I got were from the Tories, UKIP and the BNP. I think that says something about the area where I live.
Most of the leaflets I got were Conservative and Lib Dem.
They were the same from both sides, blaming each other for how shit my town is in a style befitting 8 year old siblings.