BNP leaflets update
Tim has the latest on the BNP leaflets disaster.
It's now abundantly clear that the BNP have broken the terms and conditions of the licence for use of photos - if you're a postie who wants to conscientiously object to having to put this filth through people's doors, for example, you now have a perfect reason not to do so. It's not just poisonous shit, but misleading poisonous shit which is using people's pictures without permission, claiming that trusted figures (eg doctors, soldiers) are supporting the BNP when there is no evidence of this.
Now I'm not saying that there aren't doctors or soldiers or nice mums or friendly retired people in the BNP, because I'm sure there are. But let's see the real people rather than representations of what these people look like. Or if they don't want to pose for photos, that's fine - let's just have the testimonies, assuming that they're real.
But this doesn't say that. This says "Why we're all voting British National Party" - with pictures of people who almost certainly aren't because they're (a) American and (b) not complete scum. These people aren't voting British National Party. They're just models who've had their faces roped in to a far-right election pamphlet. How do you reckon they feel about that? How do you think the doctor, the soldier, the granny, those people would all feel if they knew their photos were being used to tell people to vote for a shambolic cesspit of extremist lies, racism and hatred?
Interesting, of course, that my Daily Mail-owned local paper, the Bristol Evening Post, which happily printed dozens of comments attacking the posties for refusing to deliver BNP leaflets - including the classical "So what if a Muslim was a bastard, what then? Oh no, it'd be double standards" strawman - (but not my comment praising the posties, predictably enough) hasn't covered anything to do with the fact that these leaflets have now been exposed as misleading and breaking the terms of usage with the photos.
No, of course not. That would require a bit more than a Google search - and well, if you're not looking, you don't find things out, do you?
Incidentally, my postie put the BNP leaflet through the door yesterday. Disappointing. It went straight into the cat's litter tray, of course.
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May 16th, 2009 - 10:45
Careful, your cat may start reading it and develop an irrational hatred for non-white folk. Then again, your cat probably has more brains than many BNP followers, so perhaps you are safe.
May 16th, 2009 - 11:01
If your cat decides to crap on the floor, instead of its litter tray, you only have yourself to blame.
May 16th, 2009 - 11:02
Apparently the Bridgwater Mercury got loads of pro BNP email too, but the Mercury wouldn’t publish because all of them spelled the town Bridgewater.
May 16th, 2009 - 11:04
I think the Advertising Standards Authority covers leaflets, although there may be an exemption on political ones. Might be worth checking out and putting a complaint in. One of the sanctions they can impose is immediate withdrawal which would seriously knacker up their campaigning.
May 16th, 2009 - 11:52
Some good work going on here.
Received my Labour leaflet today and have to note its total absence of non-white people, although to be fair it is mostly of some of the candidates. It uses what appear to be stock photos of a WPC and steel worker but doesn’t have any quote related to support.
The cat mat support the BNP if they promised to do something about the ‘Mouse Problem’
May 16th, 2009 - 16:30
I find I am being offered them in the street. I’m not sure of the correct response. At the moment I’m going with a cool “no thankyou”. Any better sugestions?
May 16th, 2009 - 17:47
A better response? A colleague of mine had a terribly rascist and sexist father. But, if there was one thing he hated more than non-white people, it was the monarchy, so therefore hated the BNP. When they came knocking on his door, he cheerfully greeted them with the smattering of Punjabi he learnt from his army days.