DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

xps I mean, I keep hearing much wishful thinking from people about those two (often from LDs and tories funnily enough) but really, it's going to take something else to get rid of them. Apart from anything else I'm sure Cameron is quite happy for other members of his cabinet to take the heat while he shakes hands with grateful members of the Libyan public.

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The Government has spent £510,000 developing the GREAT Britain brand, which will be used at business receptions abroad and in advertising by Visit Britain.

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ha ha that is kind of stunningly literal. picture of an entrepreneur + union jack + ENTREPRENEURS ARE GREAT + mis-firing play on 'great' britain, britain a clumsy footnote

But I thought with all those horrible taxes, red tape, planning obstacles, 'elf and safety and lazy, feckless youth Britain was a terrible place to invest?

"Beig Rich is Brilliant!"

xpost, and in a sense, not xpost too.

they're not saying it isn't terrible just that it's easy

Don't forget terminally ill scroungers who won't even allow the fact that they are dying to stop them claiming benefits

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1. The UK is the world’s greatest market for music consumers,
buying more albums per head than anywhere else globally.
2. The value of UK music exports exceeds £17 billion every year
and British artists account for almost 12% of global sales of
recorded music.
3. From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury, the UK hosts the world’s
greatest music festivals.
4. The Beatles are the No1. selling artists of all time.
5. Adele had the longest running top ranked UK record in the
billboard charts for 20 years.

^ Note that they have fucked up the union flag on those. xp

i completely didn't see the "britain" in the entrepreneurs poster

what a shower of shit these people are

is that the beyonce/sasha fierce robo-hand in "innovation is great"?

kmt @ "shopping is great"

Looting is Great

These will be photoshopped to death in next to know time, i imagine

Swear this whole campaign is created just for the B3ta parody treatments to take it viral.

Wallace and fucking Grommit though, fuck's sake

i consider it incredibly lax of the relevant people that this hasn't already happened. GET A MOVE ON I WANT TO RETWEET THE LOOTING IS GREAT ONE WITH A PICTURE OF THE RIOTS BEHIND IT

Countryside is Great is a bit gloomy and overcast, notwithstanding the fact that there's blimmin' great aqueduct stuck in the middle of it

was just gonna say, "Creativity lol"

In fairness Visit Britain has been doing stuff like this for years, but spending over half a million pounds on the brilliant conclusion that you should make the word 'GREAT' really big and put the word 'Britain' a bit smaller underneath it is the sort of thing that the last government would have been slaughtered for, rightly, on the grounds that it's a ridiculous waste of money.

^ it is scotland though tbf xxp

Didn't see a Weather is Great one?

I saw something about it on Sky News and the 'GREAT britain' thing is very close to the Sky News logo.

More importantly here's another brilliant advert for more private sector involvement in the NHS.

"Fucking is Great"

1. The UK is the world’s greatest market for sex consumers,
getting more head than anywhere else globally.
2. The value of UK shhaggers going on holiday exceeds £17 billion every year.
3. From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury, the UK hosts the world’s
greatest music festivals. Sorry, bored now.

So do Northern Ireland have to fund their own campaign or what then?

applaud the decision to use an obese sectarian wife-murderer for the "Heritage is Great" poster

"Northern Island is Great" britain

Northern Ireland Is Great So It Is

Countryside is Great is a bit gloomy and overcast, notwithstanding the fact that there's blimmin' great aqueduct stuck in the middle of it

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Reminds of those banners the NFU put up everywhere about how farming has made Britian's countryside what it is to-day (i.e barren plains of hedgeless fields agrochemical-ed to death until they sell them off to Barratt's to build New Poundbury or whatever)

Which will be much easier to do once the gov's new planning guidelines come into play, so I suppose that's good for business.

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From the Press Association:

Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the Queen as he banged the drum for Britain during a New York event showcasing UK business, enterprise and culture.

Accompanied by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the New York Stock Exchange, Mr Cameron listed the delights of the UK at the launch of the GREAT campaign.

As well as being the country that brought to the world everything from acid house to ping pong, it also had "the only royal family anyone has ever really heard of", the Prime Minister said to laughter.

Acid house is great tbh

Drugs is Great

Think a few people might have heard of that Norwegian dude, was on the TV a lot in the summer...

it also had "the only royal family anyone has ever really heard of", the Prime Minister said to laughter.

Servitude is Great

Think a few people might have heard of that Norwegian dude, was on the TV a lot in the summer...

Yeah, has Cameron made a well-scripted joke about that yet?

i'm in new york at the moment. this poster campaign (and, well, everything else really) makes me want to stay here.

fuck me i dreamt that Trax was a Chicago label

As well as being the country that brought to the world everything from acid house

nope, that would be the USA

to ping pong,

as its practitioners HATE it being called

it also had "the only royal family anyone has ever really heard of",

if "anyone" = particularly parochial british people

the Prime Minister said to laughter.

as in pointing and laughing?

As well as being the country that brought to the world everything from acid house

anyone remember the criminal justice act? hem hem

Glo-sticks is Great

History
Parker Brothers Ping Pong game.The game originated as a sport in Britain during the 1880s, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game,[4][5] then commonly known as "wiff-waff".

MDMA is Great

Recycling Boris' old routines

... Cameron that is, not lex, tho you never know with Bozza

"I hope you saved some turkey for me"

the Prime Minister said to laughter.