‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’

If you want to read an absolute diatribe against the political advertising and political PR industry, this is for you.  Having posted yesterday about my desire to increase the realm and scope of political advertising in the UK, I thought it only fair to concede that, undoubtedly, there are significant downsides some of which are articulated fairly clearly in the above film.  

Despite everything in the video and all that is said in the article, I stand by the argument that our democracy suffers because paid for and direct political communication isn’t permitted on the most popular media platform.

Political advertising – yes please!

Political advertising - yes please!

I’ve just been informed that my one-man campaign to get TV broadcast political advertising legalised in the UK isn’t in fact as niche (don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that it’s still a postive crany in the long corridor of UK issue campaigns) as I originally thought.  Media law giants and experts Lewis Silkin have been pursuing this agenda for the last couple of years (see above), they’ve even produced a badge!… no I don’t have this fastened on to my anorak… except perhaps proverbially.