Campaign Slogans

I have to laugh at the campaign slogans which are brought out at every election. They almost always mean nothing, but sound quite good. For instance, Obama’s Yes We Can sounds brilliant to a public sick of the status quo, but when you actually look at the slogan, it is quite ambiguous. Yes we can what? Presumably this is intentional; Yes We Can [fit in whatever you want here]. The slogan is all things to all men.

Labour has tried to replicate that ambiguity with its new campaign chant A Future Fair For All. However, they seem to have instead created a monument to their own failure. New Labour has presided over the gap between rich and poor growing to a scale which would have made Thatcher blush, and their lax controls of the banking sector meant that this recession was much worse than it should have been. However, with an election approaching the Labour apparatchik have left the bankers’ table and returned to their socialist roots-well at least until after the voters have decided their fate. Make no mistake; a vote for Labour is a vote for self-interest.

As for the Conservatives Change seems to be a word they are kicking about a lot just now. Apparently Cameron’s Conservatives are the party of Change. Surely this is exactly what a conservative party should be fighting against? Recent poll of various Conservatives has revealed that the party seems to be anti-Europe, anti-Environmentalism, anti-Immigration and anti-voting reform. What exactly has changed?

As I said, election slogans sound nice but mean very little.