The Tories' latest campaign image

jsfl

However you might also mention that Labour's scaremongering is based on outright lies whereas this is based on specualtion shared by a good many.....

Tiberius

The Tories are open to all sorts of claims, David, just because they are Tories.

Cameron couldn't have been more plain when speaking to the student earlier today about tuition fees. William Hague couldn't have been more plain when answering a youngster on immigration on the leader's QT edition in 2001 (not all on the same platform then, of course), but in both cases the question was designed to embarrass and misrepresent rather than to initiate debate.

My initial response to the poster was one of humour but, as you say, also very much to the point.

sinosimon

wrong one ! by far more arresting is the 'this is what a hung parliament looks like' poster with a grinning brown on the steps of no 10.

how can you professional journos not see that?

Chuck Unsworth

Has anyone asked Health and Safety to take a look at all this scaremongering? I'm getting a touch concerned that it may lead to an outbreak of premature deaths amongst the geriatric population.

Still, that might reduce the overall costs of care for the elderly. Is the Treasury behind all this stuff, perhaps?

Ron Todd

A poor poster, I could not tell which party if any it was trying to get me to vote for.

JohnPage

The first one gives no clear message. The second one ignores Clegg's repeated stressing that it would not be acceptable for Brown to come third and be back in No 10.

Ghengis

jsfl: "speculation shared by a good many", surely you describe a "bet". Not many bookmakers become insolvent.

Naomi Muse

Why did they cut the upper floors off No 10?

Naomi Muse

A lot of the electorate want to bring back hanging...

cjcjc

Most people want to see MP's in a noose, so I'm not sure how the top poster is designed to put people off?

davidk

The first just looks in bad taste, to be honest. The second: is it a good idea for the Tories to show the opposition leader as the victor in this election...by whatever means?

sinosimon

i take it the cheque to the sinosimon pointing out the bleeding obvious consultancy is in the post? :)

jaybs

I would David Cameron inform the electorate of Fact rather than lies! - many voters who are saying they may vote for Clegg (note they never mention Lib Dems) may not understand even what an hung parliament really entails.

Colin

I still want to see the anti PR poster, featuring a smiling Nick Griffin.

TomTom

May 6th - A Referendum on Hanging ?

Ben Barclay

when it comes to hung parliament you should use scare tactics its not something people should want its something that the electorate should be warned about

boulay

if labour complain of scare tactics over Tory warnings over a hung parliament I want the Tories to say " why, do you think people should be scared of labour staying put? If no then it cannot be scare tactics, if yes then......"

I am personally starting to think that my ideal situation is that there is a liblab pact, the Tories keep cameron and then the liblabs get buried under the fallout from the cuts and pain they have lied about before they can enact PR and the Tories can walk into the innevitable election just saying "we told you so".

The worst mistake would be for the Tories to ditch cameron though.

oldtimer

Conservative Home has posted a video of the press conference where this was revealed as part of tomorrow nights party political election broadcast.

The broadcast makes reasonable points against a hung Parliament - why it results in politics behind closed doors as parties stitch things up. The poster is not as effective in making the point.

Victor Southern

Look David Blackburn and your fellow journos - there is a serious need for the British public to be scared. How on earth could it be in the nation's interests for the Labour Party, architects of ruin and failure, to participate in government for another 5 years?

Answer me that. Be scared, be very, very scared.

JONNY

Beginning very much to fear
Saatchi isn't working.

Woody

I really don't like these negative posters, I now believe the tories have lost the moral high ground, if, indeed, they had it at all. They are going too negative and people are sick to death of being treated like idiots. Those people that understand politics are fully aware of what a hung parliament would mean and those that don't probably never will, or actually don't care.
People are still saying to me they don't know what the tory policies are and with only ten days to go this is worrying. This is what the tories should be concentrating on and giving people a reason to vote for them.

davidk

Tories getting pegged back in tonight's polls. The negative campaigning is a turn off.

Snowman

My first impression of the noose poster: what, Dave’s going to get capital punishment back on the statute books? Hurrah…

Watt Tyler

Are there any more first born sons to sacrifice? The gods are angry, and we still do not know how to appease them. Fear and trembling! Fear and trembling!

Brian

The trouble, I fear, is that both the PEB and the poster are negative - do the voters like that? Do they just confirm in the public perception that politicans haven't changed (when there clearly is an appetite for change in the electorate)? This could back-fire.

Noa

How about pinching the Deerhunter poster?

With an unsmily, gimlet-eyed 'our Dave' cradling a rifle, Putin style, and in a hunters jacket and cap aka Robert De Niro.

Labelled "The Quango Hunter".

Or does that clash with summat called T'Big Society?