I do find it interesting the way they recycle the idea of a pledge card without actually emulating the core point: that they were very specific, measurable pledges.
I think the person who came closest to emulating the 1997 pledges (though I can't remember if they were put on a card, let alone mugs) was Boris in 2019, with Get Brexit Done, 20,000 new police officers, more money for the NHS, more money for every pupil in school and an Australian points based immigration system. As in 1997, you can debate whether they're the right ones (the focus on pounds spent in 2/5 was non ideal in my book) buy they were all specific and somewhat memorable.
On mugs, my best mug story is I have a Brexit mug with the wrong date on it (31 October 2019), produced in a fit of over-optimism by the Business Department.
I still refuse to believe that the Ed Stone was actually real. Even at the time it seemed like a bad joke, and the more time passes the more it seems like some kind of weird demented dream.
And very few people can say they ever actually saw it…
I don't think it was a hack as such, I think it was someone clicking on a link which auto-tweeted something while mistakenly logged into the Labour press account. If I remember correctly, I did a search at the time and there were several identical tweets before the Labour one, from entirely unrelated accounts.
I do find it interesting the way they recycle the idea of a pledge card without actually emulating the core point: that they were very specific, measurable pledges.
I think the person who came closest to emulating the 1997 pledges (though I can't remember if they were put on a card, let alone mugs) was Boris in 2019, with Get Brexit Done, 20,000 new police officers, more money for the NHS, more money for every pupil in school and an Australian points based immigration system. As in 1997, you can debate whether they're the right ones (the focus on pounds spent in 2/5 was non ideal in my book) buy they were all specific and somewhat memorable.
On mugs, my best mug story is I have a Brexit mug with the wrong date on it (31 October 2019), produced in a fit of over-optimism by the Business Department.
I still refuse to believe that the Ed Stone was actually real. Even at the time it seemed like a bad joke, and the more time passes the more it seems like some kind of weird demented dream.
And very few people can say they ever actually saw it…
What became of the police investigation to the Labour account being hacked for the Owl tweet? https://x.com/labourpress/status/479629744666054657
I don't think it was a hack as such, I think it was someone clicking on a link which auto-tweeted something while mistakenly logged into the Labour press account. If I remember correctly, I did a search at the time and there were several identical tweets before the Labour one, from entirely unrelated accounts.