I didn't like it, but then again I don't like negative ads at all. I also don't see why the political parties run/are allowed to run adverts for local elections... the quality of local government keeps on declining as national parties and the national media keep sticking their big noses in it. Example of everything that has gone wrong with "local" "government" is towards the end of your wee rant:
"While Im sure the other parties will be using their time to put forward their policies for the local government elections"They do not have policies for the local elections. The various local parties obviously do, but it's not like any attention will be given to them. Instead we'll see the usual cherry-picking from "successful" party x councils... although I do pity the LibDems as far as
that goes, because they've got sod all of those. And the Tories will just focus on Wandsworth, like they always do
One of the best adminstrations in London (Bexley) is going to lose this year anyway.
But as negative ads go, it was extremely tame; nothing on the various negative stuff that all parties ran in 2005 and the years before then (whether the "Michael Howard Eats Dead Babies" (er... almost
) TV ads or the various imported-Australian nastyness that Howard himself used... etc...) and certainly nothing on the poison that gets put into leaflets... I would much rather negative leaflets get based around a little cartoon than the near lies and other nastyness that they always are based around...
