University campuses are often regarded as breeding grounds of the Left. But, really, they’re not all that much so any more. Certainly in my experience at Essex, once a hot-bed a Lefty radicalism, the lecturers were far more so than the students. But I don’t think that these new posters [via Shane Greer], produced by the Young Britons’ Foundation really work very well.

They don’t really mean anything, or say anything. I think they are underestimating and over-sexualising students by proposing such posters.

Shane thinks that they are “just the ticket for university conservative groups across the UK” because they are “fun, edgy, and… exciting”. I think they’re just pretty sad, really. They don’t seem “edgy” at all, but a retreat to mere sexualisation.

No-one is going to be persuaded to join the Conservative Party by pictures of topless men or girls looking deeply into the camera. They might be by posters which actually represent what the Conservatives mean. The Boris posters that were given out last year by Conservative Future societies at Freshers Fairs last year are far superior to this offering. At least they were actually somehow connected to the party itself, and not just a transparent attempt to be mildly pornographic.

Life’s better under a Conservative – but these posters aren’t the best way to make it happen.