Election manifestos to be replaced by LOLcats
April 6th, 2010
"I look like a bit of a Gene Hunt. At least I think they said that."
There is now so little difference between political parties that even groups without a critique of electoral politics have difficulty in motivating people to vote. Once it gets to June, you will have an emergency budget forcing through massive cuts in public spending to pay for the attempt to save the bankrupt economic model of the last 20 years. The only argument has been as meaningful as whether this should happen on a Tuesday or a Thursday.
Reflecting this, maybe without realising it, Labour and the Tories are now making use of the same campaign graphics with slightly different slogans. We don’t have a choice of futures in this election, we have a choice of brands with the differences less clear than those between Pepsi & Coke.
Put that and the lame attempts at meme-formation together and the logic is clear: the next election will see old-fashioned things like manifestos go the same way as policies, and they will be replaced by LOLcats.
Always ahead of the curve, here’s our first draft.
LOLcat Manifesto first draft
