An American-style campaign video targeting voters in the capital has been labeled a distraction.
  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.eeEnglish
    75·
    7 months ago

    Once again, the people who have created all your problems ask for your vote.

    Not so they can fix them. Heaven’s no.

    So they can continue their work of getting rid of all the good things your government does for you. There are billionaires to think of.

    • sawdustprophet@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Is this the one where they used footage of New York instead of London?

      Yep. From the article:

      Issued by Conservative Central Office (CCHQ), it has already been edited and re-uploaded after viewers spotted that one of the dystopian-looking scenes it depicted was of the New York subway rather than the London Tube.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    61·
    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The Conservatives posted a campaign social media video claiming London was “teetering on the brink of chaos … gripped by the tendrils of rising crime” on the watch of Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan.

    Some contend the video was a joke never intended to be taken seriously, but others, including senior Conservatives, complain it posed a “dangerous” distraction from the real issues at stake in the forthcoming battle for London — the mayor is seeking re-election in a few weeks’ time.

    Andrew Boff, a long-serving Conservative London Assembly Member, said: “Susan Hall has a hugely positive message, and one that is independent of the contribution of what I can only assume was an inexperienced intern at CCHQ.”

    The contest takes place in an atmosphere of frenzied rhetoric about Khan’s impact on London, mostly revolving around the decision to expand a tax on polluting vehicles — the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) — and his supposed shortcomings in tackling violent crime.

    Hall has issued her own hard-hitting campaign launch video, which contrasts fuzzy footage of crime and anti-ULEZ protests accompanied by angsty string music with the candidate walking through a park to a piano soundtrack promising to “listen” to Londoners.

    Khan is holds a 25-point lead over Hall in the polls and is overwhelming favorite to be re-elected mayor — despite leaked internal research suggesting he will be hit hard by the introduction of voter ID checks, and a change to the voting system to first-past-the-post.

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