Help Dave with a campaign slogan!
"This is it!" David Cameron declared at the start and end of a political speech at the Carlton Club.
Was the Conservative leader revealing his love of Kenny Loggins' 1979 song of the same name? Was it a nod to Dannii Minogue's 1993 hit, or was he, as some suspect, road testing the Conservatives party's election slogan?
We all know about the power of a pithy sentence which sets out your stall - "Never had it so good", "Labour's not working", "Things can only get better", "It's The Economy, Stupid", the list goes on...
And where would Barack Obama be without "Yes we can"?
But according to a new book about America's First Couple, Mr Obama hated the slogan when it was suggested by David Axelrod and it was actually Michelle Obama who saw its worth and set about persuading her husband to adopt it.
Tonight, our Culture correspodent Stephen Smith will be talking campaign slogans - what makes a good one, what a bad and how the political parties go about choosing theirs.
But before then we want to hear your campaign slogan suggestions for the Conservative Party - can you, like Michelle, spot a diamond in the rough, in short can you help Dave out?
Answers below please...
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"Out Of The Frying Pan…"
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"Why vote for the lesser evil?"
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Back to the future
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BBC EDGY SLOGAN:
"We believe in Listening."
But somehow it looks absurd when advertising ON TV! Perhaps it needs blurring and some loud music?
Against 'We Believe in Listening', 'This is It' looks quite 'now' (going forward).
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'We are not Nu Labour'
It will work, trust me. Sadly.
Furtunately, I live in a county where I don't think Gordon's GOAT herd even bother to try losing their deposit already, so I can ponder more positive alteratives.
Once one becomes apparent that is, which has yet to transpire.
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I don't want a bleeding slogan. I don't want a bleeding spin doctor. I don't want a bleeding PR hack.
I want a goddamn Government, and I want people who know what they're doing, and, when they don't, admit it and either change or resign.
I want people who have some modicum of respect for the vast, 2,000-year history and culture of this island, and who don't make ill-thought-out, unworkable changes to its institutions for temporary political gain.
I want people who have respect for the rule of law, for the rights of Man, for the dignity of the peoples of the rest of the world.
I want people who understand that slavish devotion to the adolescent-minded military might of the United States will do nothing but bring devastation and destruction to innocents abroad and retaliation and repression here on this island.
I want people who understand that mankind faces its greatest challenge ever, one that may determine the future of civilisation on this planet.
I don't see any of those people running for office right now. And I despair.
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Be sure with the Cons
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All things to all Cons
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Cameron doesn't need a slogan, he needs to get down with the kids and start battle rapping Brown at PMQs.
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MTCONLEYUK FOR PM!
Now there is a slogan I am pleased to shout. Straight from the heart he defines our malady and - dare I say - calls for CHANGE.
The difference is, he is not constructively taloring his words to beat the other party. HE MEANS IT.
Bravo.
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Born to Rule
Better Bred.
Give us your change
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GIVE US YOUR CHANGE (#11)
Utterly brillinat Bookhim! It works on so many levels, from Dave's penthouse, all the way to the gutter. Roll that out, and watch it lock down the recovery going forward. Hurrah!
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Out of the EU
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Surely it has to be:
"Let's get to work"
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Clean break
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"Darren Brown has Nothing on Us" "We have plans that will make your eyes water"..."Real Tears".."In George You Can Trust".."Goodbye Scotland"
"Tories the real alternative to full employment" There are so many more which would appeal to selfish greedy Tory voters..Thatchers legacy of division may reap a whirlwind of economic distruction if the incompetant Cameron and Gorgious George ever get in..god forbid..were all doomed
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Etonians rule OK!
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Bully for Bullingdon
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Dave and Boris for super larks!
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"You have nothing to lose except your chains"
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Policy announcement at CCHQ on cuts in public services:
Dave steps forward, sleeves rolled up, and says,
“I’m a joker for a jest, I play my cards close to my chest, now here’s some cuts worth revealing, go on Georgie do your dealing!”
Then Georgie Porgy, with a straight face, lists a depressing cull in vital services, including hospitals and schools, whilst dressed up in clown's garb with a sad, painted on upside down smile and a dunce's hat. He adds at the end that the price of a salad in the commons bar is now £4.50. After much deliberation they also decided that £2.10 for a pint is still good value for money for the rate payer.
Here's a to wonderful Tory government.
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A SLOGAN FOR OBAMA'S NEW COMPLIANT AMERICA.
When Britain was under a pall, from barbecued beef, we coined 'Open for Business' to try to get holiday punters into the B&Bs - waking up to the smell of fresh-roast.
Now that Magic Obama is doing the: 'all in this together - none are more equal than others' thing, perhaps his next boom should be: 'OPEN FOR INSPECTION'? What greater proof of America's integrity and commitment, if they let Armadinajad's white-coats swarm all over his facilities?
Oh Brave new World . . .
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It's all over now Baby Blue...because it won't last long!
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You could do worse - but you have already!
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Let's keep Britain for the British
That will get 95% of the vote!
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People not power.
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I'm Right
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"No more lies!"
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“These are the times that try men's souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. – ‘Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.”
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Carry on capitalism.
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The [choice here] Party - Taking The Thought Out Of Thinking.
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Fixing the roof
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Off We Go!
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The answer was in your last 5 words: can you help Dave out?
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Hug the delusive phantom of hope
Asylum against anarchy
Slash the canvas
Smite the unbelievers
Be not deaf to the screams of the repentant
Freedom from the pestilential incubus of managerial technocracy
Press not a crown of thorns on the brow of the nation
Weave a golden thread of hope into the hessian of our lives
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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Vote Con for the most unkindest cuts of all!
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"To help the needy not the greedy"
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"Vote Cons, get Cons."
"We're gonna get away with it"
"Remarkably Unchallenged, yet Mentally Challenged"
"Thank God the British voter can't be bothered to think"
"Any more industries left for us to destroy?"
"I deserved a top class education. You lot don't."
"Spin on this".
"Why have competence when you can have personality?"
"(In)Breeding beats Brains"
"Slippery"
"Top-hole chaps in top hats"
"The View from The Top"
"I look down on him..."
Or, if they're looking for inspiration from the great days of British Advertising:
"Go to Work on an Ego"
"You're never alone with dissociative personality disorder"
"Coke is it"
"P-p-pick up a Penguin Suit"
"A glass and half of brains among the bunch of us"
"An ars a day helps you lose your job"
"A million housewives everyday will be promptly back in pre-feminist Britain"
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Plain And Straightforward
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We told you so!!!!
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Plain And Straightforward
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Too fly to serve
(or has that been taken?)
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"There's only one winner!" Geoff Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Vote for change - from a Labour mess to an Eton mess.
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from mimpromptu to Barrie
my bottom hasn't touch yet
I'll think of a possible slogan with my ffurther spins
mim
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"YES WE COULD" (One for Barack)
I have just been watching a DVD that carefully analyses the Pentagon strike on 9/11. Magic Obama is going to die of embarrassment when it all unravels. Yes - it was a Bushite scam, but BO is the one who will be asked the killer question. When the world says: "Could America's elite REALLY do this to itself, for political advantage over it's own people, hence military advantage over the world?" he will only be able to answer: "YES WE COULD." When that day comes - I think all the righteous boom will have gone out of him.
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Wasn't 'This Is It' an album by The Strokes? You see, you've forgotten them already - they were a heavily-hyped bunch of converse-sneaker-wearing rich kids and the darlings of the same sort of thirtysomething broadsheet journalists who went on to fall at Pete Doherty's feet. The album cover featured a lady's crotch, which they probably thought was very clever. I'm sure David Cameron has a copy, filed next to that Goldfrapp CD everyone had. He certainly had the shoes. They were touted as the Next Big Thing,the new Stones, etc., only they weren't.
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Also, like their friends the Countryside Alliance's ill-advised slogan 'the countryside counts', 'this is it' lends itself to quick and easy alteration with a marker pen. I do hope they go with it.
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We can deliver it! or We will deliver it! is probably as close to aping Obama without just copying him. A positive sounding phrase that could actually be applied to negative things.
This is it! is rubbish - I immediately thought of Neil Kinnock.
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How about: MAKE IT HAPPEN?
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'Moat for Us'
'The war on terror is in our DNA'
'Stand and Deliver'
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Give up, go home
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Moat for Us is good - but I prefer 'Vote Moat'
- says it all really and beats getting just a lousy Kit Kat!!
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Alternatively, 'Don't mention the Policies!' sounds reminiscent of Fawlty Towers - which I suppose is a fair summation of how Cameron, Osborne and Boris plan to govern - especially when they tried to hide the corpse!
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'we've got piles'
comedy was much better under the tories. that feeling of being under occupation by a foreign power tends to sharpen up the wit.
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from mimpromptu
The only thing I can think of would be something to do with kids,
like for example 'Better future for the/our kids' or 'Let's pull together for our kids', something to this effect, anyway
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"EU'r wish is my command, President Blair"
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"The Conservatives- become if we don't hate ordinary people, who will?"
"Fed up with New Labour? With neo-liberal, reckless economic policies and a Thatcherite mindset? With warmongering, pro-nuclear, self-serving hypocrites and liars? Then vote...oh hang on..."
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I know what slogan should be used against the Tories -
"Opportunity not privilege"
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WE THINK THEREFORE WE ARE
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A COMMENT MADE BY BY LOUIS DESCARTE 'I THINK THEREFORE I AM' MODIFIED IN THE PLURAL!!
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I have just seen Daniel Hannan on Newsnight - perhaps the Tories would consider adopting "Let us speak long enough and we will make you sick."
"Hang Daniel Hannan" would win a few votes and put him out of his misery..
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PS - given the Tories track record on electing vote-winning party leaders in recent times how about they campaign with the slogan "This one isn't a slaphead."
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"We're anarchists, just like the Lib-Dems and New Labour. You have no real choice, so vote for us. We have a nicer logo! A tree!"
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UPWARD DECLINE IS NOT ACHIEVABLE - EVEN BY DELUDED CHRISTIANS.
What an unholy mess. Obama wants to be 'Super Obama' and the rest all want to be Obama! It is all so primitive. Individual maturity is in decline, right across the planet, while 'leaders' are focused on education - education in the narrow sense of preparation for production and consumption, i.e. MAMMON.
And what is so special about Obama? Take away the height, the dual-purpose tint, the boom, the charisma, and what is left? A man who has been funded into leadership whence he PREACHES (oh he certainly has a dream today!) cooperation and deference; but a man who will not be telling what America has up THEIR sleeve any time soon. Nor will he be inviting inspections by other nations - the FIRST act of humility, collaboration and deference. Until we get leaders who yearn to give the gift of contentment and maturity to each individual, universal suffrage will always be manipulated by these driven, unscrupulous gottabes, who get voted in by pathetic, embryonic masses of dupes and acolytes. It is a cycle that will not be broken while 'G' stands for 'GULLIBLE'; no matter whether the suffix be '8', '20', or '8 times 20'.
There is an irony that, back in 'history' (a constant theme of Obama's) the Native American seems to have had considerable wisdom and a sustainable lifestyle. Yet, in Obama's inauguration speech, they got no mention. Someone on this forum suggested that a Native American should be made President - a poignant thought - a telling symbol. Somehow I do not think it was any accident that Obama missed them off his list. The old spirits call all too loudly for him to do justice. But justice is much harder than school, trade and ever-expanding growth, so the spirits can go hang. And, anyway, what would a trained lawyer want with justice?
G 20 is no door to sunlit uplands. It is just another game of sterile Globopoly for an elite few, who have no sleep-invading concept of the anguish of this planet, nor yet any acumen to address it - if they had.
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We know what we're going to do - But we're not telling you!
or
The Conservative party - When we're in, we'll fill you in!
or
Blair spun and won - were spinning and winning!
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Thish ish it
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Yes, We Con
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The cons owe Ed Balls a debt of gratitude for all the damage he has wreaked on the Labour Party re cuts in Education ......
so
'3 cheers for Ed Balls, Conservatives rule OK'
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Damn your profanity filter!!
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Vote conservative....you'll get no bullingdon from us!!
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try the slogan generator
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=tory
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Having just watched the latest outing from the PM on the Andrew Marr show, on top of the rest of the GOAT herd's greatest hits of late, the Conservatives could do a lot worse just to run BBC interviews of Labour cabinet ministers... um... telling us what we want.
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Bookhimdano - nice one!
How about HisTory :p
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The new slogan should be:
We are NOT New Labour
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"We will end the workingsmans blues!!!!!!!!!"
Maybe they should adopt dylans lyrics.
Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue
Gonna give you another chance
I'm all alone and I'm expecting you
To lead me off in a cheerful dance
Got a brand new suit and a brand new wife
I can live on rice and beans
Some people never worked a day in their life
Don't know what work even means
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"The Campaign for political disarmament.
Taxpayer payer first then Tory"
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The Strokes album was Is This It, not This Is It
However rather fantastically the new Michael Jackson film is called This Is It
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Tory, Tory, Hallelujah!
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Blue is the new Brown
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Deeds not words!
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"Let's Not Bang on About Europe."
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Noone gone with "all mod cons" yet? No? Well here you are then.
btw, utterly agree with barriesingleton, but until the apocalypse let's party (responsibly, naturally)...
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Sarah,
Back to the future...
~Dennis Junior~
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