So the Saatchi and Saatchi agency has been recruited to look after Labour’s advertising for the general election. Whenever that might be. <cough>
Here’s their pitch:
What the BBC story doesn’t tell you*, is that they were previously turned down by the Liberal Democrats after this proposal:
For some reason, the Tories – despite the success of Labour Isn’t Working in 1979 – also turned them down. Can’t imagine why:
*because (let’s be clear for legal purposes) I’ve made it up
My proposal “Not Flash, just Crash” didn’t win, then. 🙁
Of course, some of us are old enough to remember when Paddy wanted us to campaign on the slogan “we’re yellow, we’ve got courage.” In retrospect, that might have been a Saatchi original.
ROFL 😀 And of course I had to love it.