Political Poster Flashback

September 25, 2010 at 5:02 pm

Remember the last time a Jew was leader of a major political party in the United Kindgom?

Labour smeared him with this poster, comparing Michael Howard to Fagin:

Unsurprisingly the media didn’t make much of a fuss…it was, after all, aimed at someone on the right. Imagine the outcry if the head was switched to Red Ed’s, eh? Uproar! It’s amazing how unacceptable political propaganda somehow happens in one direction, but is unthinkable in reverse.

And you wouldn’t even have to change the slogan.