Churchillian Enigma at Green Park
A co-conspirator emails:
I just snapped this bizarre poster on the northbound Victoria line platform at Green Park. No headlines or text, just a big picture in a station almost completely bereft of other adverts. Any idea what the message is supposed to be? “No time for a novice” perhaps? Or “Wait till you’re 65, like I had to”?
The co-conspirator confirms that Cameron is blurred on the poster and it is not just an out of focus shot. Anyone know what this is all about?
UPDATE : It is, as some of the comments below immediately identified, an advertising campaign for The Times.
It’s a still from a speech he made earlier this week, isn’t it?
Weird.
I’m pretty sure it’s part of the advertising campaign for The Times, one of a series of images they use. I believe this particular poster has had some kind of cock-up which means the logo isn’t visible.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2918510794_3c5a5e4c6b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/70031214%40N00/2918510794/&usg=__gPcBg4eq3DTndHUO81rQBUalezc=&h=375&w=500&sz=110&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=nfYEOcbuyeWXxM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Btimes%2Bcameron%2Bchurchill%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official
Definitely The Times. But a wierd one at that…..
In fact it’s definitely the Times campaign:
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/849252/Times-reveals-itself-phantom-advertiser/
http://ciarannorris.co.uk/2008/10/26/the-times-new-ad-campaign-basketball-bullshitters/
“The Times have an interesting advertising campaign running at the moment. It started with very arresting posters which featured nothing other than eye-catching photos which had no branding of any sort on them. After a while the posters were replaced with exactly the same images, but with the words The Times added. The picture above is one of the latest in this campaign, which I took at Oxford Circus tube and shows a blurry David Cameron walking past a portrait of possibly the greatest every Tory leader, Winston Churchill.”
I only question your use of the word ‘possibly’…….
Disraeli?
So its the greatest ever Conservative Leader meeting the most gimmicky and worst ever. Brilliant.
Oh come now, you are being rather harsh! Churchill may have been gaga, but he wasn’t that bad.
Interestingly, when The Times printed the actual photo (or one very much like it) earlier this week, Churchill was blurred, and Cameron was clear.
Photoshopped.
Doddle with a quick mask and Gaussian Blur
I seem to recall seeing it popping up on various websites/blogs – but as I ignore pop up adverts (Sorry about that Mr Guido) I did not know it was for the Times.
Seems a bit ironic that Mr Guido in another life I believe has something to do with web advertising but did not recognise an advert.
Is this an indicator that the house of google (and others) is built on sand?
There are no pop-up ads on this site. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
What!! But they told me the internet was all true!
Dominoes are falling, so are hedge funds
FT reported last night, $639m-UK fund Weavering Capital has been put into liquidation following the discovery of a huge ($637m!) – and previously unknown about – derivative position with an offshore company controlled by the fund’s managing director, Magnus Peterson.
How many more ‘unknown about – derivative positions’ to come?
Financial misconduct = Conservatives
Pity you economic genius of a leader didn’t regulate this kind of activity when he had the chance to do so…
Labour=Financial Incompetence, Misconduct and Dishonesty
Deregulate the Mortgage Market
It wasnae me
and dave = useless pothead.
just in case you hadn’t realised minefiller, they are all thick as thieves.
Retards,
your hero,
TAT.
“All started in America, its a global crisis” (and plenty more to come thanks to a mad ruin-us-all scotchman.)
In this day and age anything will “millions”
attached to it instead of “billions” or even
“trillions” starts to sound like small change.
Responsibility for current crisis = People currently in charge
Oi Inky!!
“How many more ‘unknown about – derivative positions’ to come?”
What about……………………
How many more unknown about (i.e. off balance sheet) PFI, millstone round the taxpayers’ necks for the next thirty years, debts to come?
Uncle Tom
Who knows?
But we do know that the banks have created a toxic slick which in the case of just Lloyds and RBS is admitted as being 600 billion pounds, Barclays are still ‘negotiating’. How many years to clear that black hole? Of course that has nothing to do with the bankers themselves who were individually paying themselves up to 40 million pounds and had been overcome with enthuisiasm, no (according to the mental midgets on this site) it was down to FSA mushrooms on 45 thousand a year, who didn’t regulate enough, as if. Listen the whole country has been done over by these City sharks and people like you are so scared of them you haven’t the back bone to look up and then see the truth in front of your face. That’s it keep tugging your forelock like a good serf.
It’s a new era, get used to it.
Financical misconduct = Conservatives
Of course the bankers were responsible for what they did. But what do you mean by “the banks”? Goodwin was not personally responsible for the actual trades that have caused the problems, but he, as the top dog in RBS, has to take the rap.
In the same way McBust has to take the rap, because he was top of the financial pyramid in the UK. He was also personally responsible for some of the policies that wrecked the UK economy:
1. busting pensions
2. selling gold at the bottom
3. setting mortgage rates by CPI (rather than RPI)
4. encouraging debt in the country
5. praising, giving jobs to, and knighting the bankers
6. increasing government debt
7. hiding the increased debt off balance sheet
8. increasing the burden on taxpayers
9. failing to get value for money from largesse
10. debasing the currency
11. losing 1 million jobs in manufacturing
12. and more …
Neither is it any good blaming the Tories: they were not the government – ZaNu Labour was.
My party right or wrong is how people like the The Inquisition support the Labour party. By contrast Tory supporters like me are appalled by financial misconduct when conducted by Tories. See how quickly Michael Trend was ejected or how angry the grassroots are over Spelman.
You’ve got to be seriously myopic to think financial misconduct = Conservatives. It started with Tony Blair’s £1 million F1 bribe. The most recent example is Sir Fred’s pension (a labour supporter and approved by Labour cabinet minister Lord Myners). It will end with the true scale of the PFI scandal and other off balance sheet wheezes by Brown being put on the govt’s balance sheet.
When the Conservatives were led by an idiot (Major) and supported by people only in it for themselves, I stopped defending them. It would be a good idea if people like you did the same.
Dominoes are indeed falling. In the May elections all of Labours rotten Council dominoes are going to fall.
Labour Governments = Corruption, Uncontrolled Immigration, Soft on Crime, Sleeze, Cocaine use, Prostitution and Local Authority sponsered Child Abuse.
Most of the authorities aren’t having elections this year.
You can vote in the Euro elections, though.
Vote early, vote often!
Oh – I don’t know if Brown has been so honoured but the spectre looking over his shoulder ought to be The Grim Reaper, holding a ballot box.
I can’t imagine an educated man like Churchill saying, “like I had to”.
Daily Politics Live chat today midday:
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A PIZZA THE ACTION, Stanislav’s Blues
Swiss
It is next week.
do try to not bottle it this time, there’s a good chap.
you did come across as verbally constipated on your last outing, I hope you are more intellectualy fluent this time.
good luck and no hard feelings, eh.
Bugger, sorry about that. it was the link that was crap. Should have had PREVIEW a lot larger.
Nothing on the Daily Politics about it today so I will have to admit a very damp squib.
Make sure you rehearsed and are not pissed, or not as the case may be, we will be watching, and laughing.
Churchill would have had half the Tory cabinet hung for treason.
Only half?
Isn’t it Iain Dale rather than Ian Dale?
If we’re being pedantic.
You’re right – that’ll learn me x
Churchill called for a United States of Europe in 1946.
Idiot. Try reading some Churchill for a change, instead of reading what others say about him.
Before calliing somebody an idiot perhaps you should read it yourself. Churchill did call for a united states of Europe but not one including Britain.
Quite so scary biscuits.
The principle was simply that it would hopefully stop the Hun and the cheeses eating surrender monkeys taking chunks out of each other every 30 years or so. The political combination while probably a powerful force was preferable than the war to end all wars and then WW11.
Churchil did admit the scenario was the lesser of two evils but perhaps the benefit would be we would not have to send our boys to the continent to rescue the French on a regular basis. The Americans were supportive in part of course for the same reason.
It was different then though and in absolutely no way similar to the present times. He would have hated the present setup quite simply he said it in one of his brillaint speeches
“WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”
Nor should we……..
Hanged. Hung means something else.
Nice to see the government engaging with voters
It’s The Hazel Blears Enpowerment Blog
Highly popular as demonstrated by the number of comments left to each of her last few posts: 0,1,0,0,0 (oh, that’s post is amusingly titled “life after debt”, how ironic given this government’s record on racking it up), 0,1,7,0,0,1 (including a link to a flickr gallery of Blears South Asia Holiday snaps including this Caption Competition Contender, 6,1,0,0…….you get the idea
All BBC comments off
After that patsy, matey, matey call me Ken, Tessa, Vince and fern love in last night I am not surprised. I detected from the comments made from the floor (despite BBC stuffing the audience, including the troll spouting the planted praise for the Olympic ‘regeneration’ ) – that there was a distinctly ugly mood underpinning the whole show.
BBC always stuff the audience. They look nothing like the population of the area I live in, for instance, and they’re institutionally left-wing.
Probably too many comments along the lines of :
“who is that bird with the vast tracts of land at 06:11 on the iplayer version, on the right of the guy asking the question, phwoooaarrrr!”
At least, that’s what I’d be saying …
Hanged – pictures are hung. While we’re at it, can someone tell Ian Dale it’s Swannee – not Swanney.
This advert says
`what the f*** happend to the Tories!`
Can we have more baiting of Andrew Neill on this blog, please?
Pretty please?
My first impression when seeing this was that Churchill was telling Cameron as he passed:” Never, have so many been made to owe so much, by so few!”
Sorry but Cameron has nothing in common with Churchill.
Now David Davies perhaps.
BTW Gordon is a window licker….
The hidden sense of this poster is in the pose churchill has struck. His body languge will be utterly familier to those who read such things, as for the rest of humanity, well its a secret. Cameroon is not a deft at this things just yet, and prehaps thats the comment. Churchill had garvitas were as poor D.C. just hasn’t quite worked it out yet. The blank face is pretty mean really….we will see.
Apparently has been up since December.