DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

Which will be much easier to do once the gov's new planning guidelines come into play, so I suppose that's good for business.

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From the Press Association:

Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the Queen as he banged the drum for Britain during a New York event showcasing UK business, enterprise and culture.

Accompanied by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the New York Stock Exchange, Mr Cameron listed the delights of the UK at the launch of the GREAT campaign.

As well as being the country that brought to the world everything from acid house to ping pong, it also had "the only royal family anyone has ever really heard of", the Prime Minister said to laughter.

Acid house is great tbh

Drugs is Great

Think a few people might have heard of that Norwegian dude, was on the TV a lot in the summer...

it also had "the only royal family anyone has ever really heard of", the Prime Minister said to laughter.

Servitude is Great

Think a few people might have heard of that Norwegian dude, was on the TV a lot in the summer...

Yeah, has Cameron made a well-scripted joke about that yet?

i'm in new york at the moment. this poster campaign (and, well, everything else really) makes me want to stay here.

fuck me i dreamt that Trax was a Chicago label

As well as being the country that brought to the world everything from acid house

nope, that would be the USA

to ping pong,

as its practitioners HATE it being called

it also had "the only royal family anyone has ever really heard of",

if "anyone" = particularly parochial british people

the Prime Minister said to laughter.

as in pointing and laughing?

As well as being the country that brought to the world everything from acid house

anyone remember the criminal justice act? hem hem

Glo-sticks is Great

History
Parker Brothers Ping Pong game.The game originated as a sport in Britain during the 1880s, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game,[4][5] then commonly known as "wiff-waff".

MDMA is Great

Recycling Boris' old routines

... Cameron that is, not lex, tho you never know with Bozza

"I hope you saved some turkey for me"

the Prime Minister said to laughter.

Noting that Mr Bloomberg had brought him an iPad as a gift at an earlier meeting, Mr Cameron told of how he tried to impress the Queen, whom he discovered playing the card game solitaire during a visit.

The Prime Minister said he tried to show the monarch that the game could be played on the electronic device.

"She said she had already heard about that, and in any case she preferred cards," Mr Cameron said.

Sport is great:

"Getting more young people doing sport is great but I do ask myself whether it really does have to be in a cage," Mr Hunt said.

Entrepreneurship is Great

don't get me started on the "OMG 2 KIDS WRESTLING WHILE ADULTS APPLAUD SOMEONE CALL SOCIAL SERVICES" story

KIDS AS YOUNG AS 14 ARE DOING BOXING WHILE ADULTS ARE CHEERING ON, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY IN COUNCIL FUNDED GYMNASIUMS!!!

IT WAS IN A CAGE!! LIKE AMINALS THEY WAS!!!

The film I saw this morning made it look like a thai kickboxing ring at first, or that they hadn't quite opened the mudchute yet.

However, in this, there is no kicking or punching. It's wrestling, that's it. Except for the cage (evident), and the adults close up to the cage (evident) cheering and freaking out (not evident)...

Right, back to the lolPosterSlogans..

Kiddies is Great

and then the ref at the end calls it a draw so it's quite sweet, two kids learning martial arts and getting to play at MMA like they probly watch on TV, christ knows why the Beeb are trying to turn into shock horror broeken Britain oh hang on I do know why

The £500,000 GREAT campaign plans to create a £1 billion business boost linked to the games and attract four million extra visitors and 'put the great back in to Great Britain,' Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.

The government has unveiled a £100m campaign to "set the record straight" to overseas visitors in the wake of the riots in August, vowing to use the 2012 Olympics as a catalyst to attract 1 million extra tourists a year.

wait so they pissed away 500k/100m and then totally unrelated we get a tourism boost around the 2012 olympics and think 'look at how GREAT we are at doing this

The ten posters for the £100 million campaign are intended to promote an image of Britain that will attract an additional 4 million foreign visitors and create 2,016 jobs by 2016

and create 2,016 jobs by 2016

And 2,525 jobs by the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive

100mill between 2,016 = £49,603 each.

Its a shame most of the rest of the world increasingly knows Great Britain as The UK or England. The small Britain is not really going to help things.

is it me or must this campaign have been approved and begun before any of the riots?

also i am not a pedant i will not get radge at people wilfully misunderstanding the meaning of "great" in "great britain" i promise myself

one of the execs behind it was on the today programme saying we should be celebrating what britain is today, and the riots were part of that - he said new york is a boring place to live now compared to its fun violent past!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9596000/9596297.stm

xp to NV ^^^haha, that was EXACTLY my first thought too.

And I promise not to say anything until I read the first comment about let's make Britain Great Again...

i mean tbf it's a very long-standing pun but it never gets delivered like a pun, just like straight-faced by jingo if we do

Think they should get Brucie to duet with Adele on a new version of this beauty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqysqItAzI

Looking at that campaign, I think it's time we put the Britain back into Great

Meanwhile the Daily Mail's having none of it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040260/Maciej-Dakowicz-Cardiff-After-Dark-binge-drinking-images-turned-Britain-laughing-stock.html

one of the execs behind it was on the today programme saying we should be celebrating what britain is today, and the riots were part of that - he said new york is a boring place to live now compared to its fun violent past!

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This is interesting though. I went to Margate the other week and they have a sort of cottage industry there based on the mod vs rocker clashes. At the time it was all "OMG these animals are tearing society apart with their bare hands" and now it's fuelling the local economy.

Dakowicz admits that he would be unable to produce images like this in his home town of Bialystok in Poland.

The Polish being a famously abstemious people

I don't see what's wrong with a lot of those photos tbh

Are cuts to public services going to make the streets of Cardiff less full of litter then?

I went to Margate the other week and they have a sort of cottage industry there based on the mod vs rocker clashes. At the time it was all "OMG these animals are tearing society apart with their bare hands" and now it's fuelling the local economy.

Sealed Knot Society needs something to do on non-Civil War anniversaries innit?

The Perfect Tie Knot Society should be set up to re-enact mods vs. rockers

I dunno about Margate, but last time I saw the "culture clash" in Brighton, they were helping each other with scooter repairs, etc...

War is over, if you want it and are 40-odd