The Armchair's Web

What is with political party election posters? They are supposed to deliver a serious message, yet people tend to make fun out of them by defacing them at the earliest opportunity.

The Conservatives‘ posters are the worst offenders. Over recent years, they have become an  inspiration for almost every political joke under the sun. If you go to the Andy Barefoot.Com website, you can computer regenerate your Conservative poster spoof at your leisure. Here’ s my effort:

More examples here.

Perhaps the real reason for why these posters are being regularly defaced is because of the way that British politics is being driven over the last thirteen years. Parties have long had a public perception of being out of touch.

It’s one thing for somebody to deface a poster just to raise a laugh, it’s another having a struggle trying to raise the country’s very low horizons… particularly when there’s a general election around the corner….