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Link: Crazy People (1990).

Mrs Paine and I were recalling the film "Crazy People" this morning. Older readers will remember it was about a stressed ad executive (Dudley Moore) who enjoys surprising success when his
fellow mental patients help him devise such honest slogans as:

"Volvos; they’re
boxy but they’re safe"

We wondered what would happen if political parties took the same approach and over breakfast we came up with:

Labour (pace Sir Bob Geldof):    

Give us your ******* money!


LibDems
:                                    

If you like being dumped on, vote for us


Conservatives
:                        

We’re not nasty anymore, but we could be.

I am sure you must have better suggestions.

3 responses to “Crazy People (1990)”

  1. Welshcakes Limoncello Avatar

    I think those are excellent suggestions, myself!

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  2. kinderling Avatar

    Transport For London
    We have your Freedom to Transport watched shopped and stopped

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  3. Falco Avatar

    Labour: “We’re going to keep stamping on your face,…forever.”
    Lib Dems: “We support your liberty to give us all your money so that we can hand it over to the EU.”
    Tories: “We are 1/8 of an inch to right of the above, for all the difference that makes.”

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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