There’s a by-election in Walsall tomorrow. The Conservative candidate has either reproduced a leaflet from May, or misprinted the leaflet and bodged two important amendments. If you look at the black blotches on the page you will see two things.
1. The date of the election was originally printed as Thursday 6th May. An amendment added in black ink to put the new date.
2. This is the bit that simply takes the biscuit. In the section headed “Together building a better town” you see the line “investment in schools”. Above, clearly visible for all to see through the black ink are the words “200 million”!
The Tories cut the Building Schools of the Future programme last week so they just blocked it out. As well as the bare faced cheek of it, it’s politically inane.
Investment in schools
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That is funny!
You can see clearly that they are:
“In Touch and recognised for being hands on”
They certainly got their hands on touching up that old leaflet.
Her spelling and grammar are atrocious too. “sincerley”? “Maybe” instead of “May be”? —and that’s just in her introductory piece!
I can understand such a stupefying lack of attention to detail in the playground, but not at this level. There’s really no excuse for it.
Would it have killed Ms. Smith, or the local Tories, to hire a proofreader, or are accuracy and clarity in communication no longer important in politics? This does not bode well.
Loving the superfluous apostrophe in “speed camera’s” too. Regardless of political affiliation, I wouldn’t vote for her out of principle after that.
Someone can’t spell ‘sincerely’ either. What I expect from the Tories.
BUT the biggest mistake that really needs sorting is the use of the floating apostrophe – since when have ‘ speed camera’s ‘ been possessive?
Is this the whole leaflet? Seems to refer to a whole load of articles (inc one titled ominously “Warning”) – did they appear on other pages?
Could use a spellcheck too – Excutive, sincerley…
Here, how about uploading it to http://www.thestraightchoice.org so there’s a chance of finding it in a few years? We’re not just for Parliamentary leaflets, you know.
Terrible. At least it didn’t say ‘Hospital Saved’
Oh dear, it seems the Tories lost the byelection and Labour gained it. (PS did the Tories pay a licence to the Ordnance Survey to use their material on leaflets? Because that is returnable as an election expense)
Dear Tom,
I speak as one who has draughted, edited printed many Labour Newsletters in South Wales and elsewhere.
That leaflet looks to me as if it was prepared on a Ricograph printer, with the live Word/~PDF computer interface. Other items on the leaflet tell me that it was specifically printed for the bye election.
First of all editing in word to add or remove items takes less time to do than it does to type this paragraph.
Secondly The overprinted “Black blocks” look just that. Overprinted. The date block is peculiar as no blue shows in the white script for the date. A Rico does not give an accurate enough register to be able aim an overprint that accuratley,
Could I sugest that this was originally printed early before the Schools announcement, and the block overprint done to remove subsequent embarasment.
Of course all the costs, original and overprint, will show in the expenses won’t they ?
GW
My motto has always been “You can’t say Conservative without saying Con”!!
Amateur agreed. But the National Coaltion Govenment is still spending significant sums on capital (including school) projects. Just because they are spending more efficiently than the Ed Ball’s setup is not a problem to me.
I realise you are the ex-minister who resigned to destabilise Tony Blair and install (install is the correct word since there was no election) Gordon Brown. Since you are a brownite you must be a Ball’s supporter too.
I hope Ball’s gets the leadership since he makes cameroons task so much easier (Abbott would be great too!)
Maybe if Labour had not borrowed to spend more in the good times, the bad times would not have been this bad. To criticise the party that had to pick up the mess from the:
1. STUPID decision to keep on borrowing to spend (when any economist from Nelson onwards would tell you that economics is cyclical and a downturn inevitable)
2. The ‘Iron Chancellor’ that you backed was behind it all – toothless regulation (FSA..?!) cosying up to the City, the FSA, Brown’s ego need to be seen to be the key behind the prosperity (a house of cards)
3. DESPITE unprecedented public spending…Why are there still schools with leaking ceilings, with kids in the Express & Star saying their schools have leaking ceilings? MAYBE if Labour had spent money efficiently, instead of trying to create a client state of employees beholden to them for their jobs (to redress the conservative nature of the electorate) then those schools would not be leaking
I voted for Blair in 1997.
I will never vote Labour again.
STOP insulting people – we ALL know why the cuts are being made.
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