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The front cover of Labour's election manifesto depicts a family of four gazing upon a new dawn from the summit of a hill as bright rays of hope emanate from the rising sun, which is emblazoned with Labour's new slogan, 'A Future Fair For All'. I believe the key devices employed in this artwork are reminiscent of both Stalinist and Maoist symbolism - Mao made extensive use of the sunrise emblem and Stalin's propaganda artwork featured joyous self-actualised families looking either aloft to the sky or the far horizon in rural settings, their faces beaming with an expression of unbridled relief, fulfillment and appreciation.

Mentally swap the figurative 'A Future Fair For All' for a side-profile vector drawing of Chairman Brown, dot a few wind turbines around the landscape and there you have it - genuine commie propaganda!!! Poke fun and called me Glenn Beck all you want but I'm convinced that we - along with our fellow EUSSR states - are on a slippery slope to the miserable existence of totalitarian communism. The current economic conditions are ripe for it and, in my opinion, the situation was engineered with the intention of creating of a communist super state all along. Chairman Brown recently described the credit crunch as "the one-off cost of globalisation". Hahaha. More like the one-off cost of paving the way to implement his Orwellian nightmare.

Bollocks.

I heard mandy is a commu-Nazi

What utter pish.

A picture of a family enjoying the sunshine with a slogan about "fair society" makes them communists?

Roll over McCarthy.

Funnily enough, when I first saw the front cover of the manifesto, I had the same imagery running through my head, Chie. Purely from an artistic and design point of view, it's very reminiscent of the style of artwork of that period and of that particular type of party.

Wouldn't read anything further into it than that, though... and is it me, or is everybody a bit knee-jerk here, at the moment? Handbags down, please. No wonder nobody talks politics any more, it's far more personal than even admitting affairs!

James H wrote:Funnily enough, when I first saw the front cover of the manifesto, I had the same imagery running through my head, Chie. Purely from an artistic and design point of view, it's very reminiscent of the style of artwork of that period and of that particular type of party.

Wouldn't read anything further into it than that, though... and is it me, or is everybody a bit knee-jerk here, at the moment? Handbags down, please. No wonder nobody talks politics any more, it's far more personal than even admitting affairs!

Its you.

Plenty of people I know discuss politics. Perhaps people don't discuss it with you for some other reason.

"Handbags down" indeed.

Tsk.

We're discussing this image yes?



Well when I saw it I thought "Corn Flakes."

And really, there are many things you can accuse labout of being, communist is not one of them. It's a party torn between its traditional socialist roots and the New Labour "comfortable with people getting filthy rich" attitude to free markets. You always feel like its a tug of war between Mandy on the right and people like Prescott and Ed Balls on the left and on the way you end up with bizzare misguided terrorism laws that are distinctly right wing.

But communist. No.

Oh I do apologise, I just read your post more carefully. EUSSR.

You know, it's one thing when Gav goes off at Mr Q for having a more Thatcher style view of economics. But at least things he comes out with have a grounding in reality and thought behind them, even if those of us who lean to the left due to our lack of boullion find them unpalletable.

However given your post it's clear that you're actually insane. Is your "self-employed" status a correct way of saying you knit hats with the other window lickers?

Unless this is some sort of Littlejohn parody. In which case well done.

mwah mwah

This has been the least communist Labour government and party we have ever had! You have no idea what you are talking about on this Chie, and you are sounding like the Republicans in the US who accused Obama of being a communist over his healthcare policy.

If a National Health Service is the sign of communism, we have been communists for over 60 years, even through a Thatcher government, or you are talking out of your brainwashed backside!

No, to be fair the failing must be ours.

As with reasonable people like chie, I think we're all supposed to imagine that there's a "side profile of Chairman Brown" eating a deep fried mars bar with a hammer and sickle.

So tsk @ us.

I'm slightly amused by all their 'cornfield' images. I didn't think they would know one if they fell over into it.

This from the government which brought you the Department for the Elimination of Farming and Rural Affairs.