Gordon’s alive!
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.
Comment by Ern — September 13, 2007 @ 2:06 pm
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.
Comment by James Graham — September 13, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
ROFL
And of course I had to love it.
Comment by Sarah — September 13, 2007 @ 6:15 pm