Economic Propaganda

by Chris | 24 Nov 2008 | 4 Comments

The battle over the economy and the way to fix it seems to be growing. Both sides are aiming to win the hearts and minds of the average voter.

The Conservatives have a very clever – one could almost say iconic – poster:

christmas-tax-bombshell

And Labour have a more indepth propaganda campaign, trying to portray David Cameron as economically illiterate [click to see the whole thing]:

labour-propaganda-economically-illiterate-cameron

Which is more effective? For direct impact, most certainly the Conservative poster. But for deeper long-term impact, the Labour propoganda wins because it is a lot more detailed – even though wrong and deeply simplified.

It is also interesting that the Labour propaganda is a lot more web-friendly that the Conservatives, being embeddable [though not here, as it is simply too big, which is a bit of a mistake]. And the Tories “Tax Bombshell” poster doesn’t even appear to be on their website. I had to get the image above from a newspaper.

Categories: Taxes, The Economy

4 Comments »

  • Conservatives.com PBR Reaction | ThunderDragon Blog said:

    [...] debt counter in the form of Alistair Darling as the landing page, and making good use of the iconic economic propoganda image of the tax bombshell as the main [...]

    # 26 November 2008 at 9:18 am
  • My Debt, Thanks To Labour | ThunderDragon Blog said:

    [...] battle back towards Labour. I commented a while back on the Labour’s far more web-orientated economic propaganda – even though it was pretty useless, as it was too large to be embedded in a blog, even in the main [...]

    # 29 November 2008 at 7:30 pm
  • Political Advertising | ThunderDragon Blog said:

    [...] ties in well with the Conservative’s “tax bombshell” campaign, and is a simple but striking design. Though I wouldn’t have the white box at [...]

    # 30 December 2008 at 9:34 am
  • The Blue Idea » Labour’s debt crisis (redux) said:

    [...] We all know that Labour have drowned us in debt. The Conservatives made this point earlier in the year. And after the Pre-Budget Report last year (twice). [...]

    # 9 December 2009 at 12:51 am

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