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Category: UK General Election 2015

Election campaigning: how to spend it

On Wednesday this week the Electoral Commission published the details of money spent by political parties on General Election 2015. … More

electoral commission, media strategy, political advertising

Homes for Britain: how we made the housing crisis personal

This is a case study paper that I wrote jointly with my colleague Emily Harlock about the advertising campaign run under … More

How did political parties use advertising in the 2015 general election campaign?

Below is an article that I wrote for Market Leader; the strategic marketing journal for business leaders.  I’m reproducing the … More

Pocket Rocket: the poster that transformed the media narrative around general election 2015

M&C Saatchi, the creative agency behind the Conservative Party’s “Miliband in Salmond’s Pocket” poster, today ran a house advertisement in … More

How the Conservative Party built an election narrative around the SNP using political advertising

What is becoming clear in the post-election analysis of the results is that the Conservative Party very successfully created a climate … More

General Election 2015: review of the political posters

The 2015 general election race has been electric.  As neither of the main parties has managed to capture the majority … More

best political adverts uk, best posters general election

Brands and election-themed gimmicks

Earlier today the BBC Daily Politics kindly invited me on to their show to discuss election-themed products and promotions. You … More

brands, elections, gimmicks

Digital tactics in 2015 general election

Robert Cookson at The Financial Times has written a nice article on the digital aspect of the 2015 general election … More

Alternative election posters

The Guardian has asked art students to bring to life the ‘real’ 2015 general election by coming up with a new slogan … More

Conservative Party embarrassed by latest poster?

The Conservative Party have released a new poster that is plastered across marginal constituencies.  It features Alex Salmond, former leader … More

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There’s a helluva lot of interesting stuff in this playbook. Not going to pretend I’ve read and digested all 200+ pages yet. But I will do and will be better for it. The public has a voice, but the party has a veto. The data doesn’t lie. Unfortunately, it also doesn’t pay the electricity bill. #politicalcartoon Nigel Farage is running a “win your energy bills” lottery as a way to help promote Reform UK’s latest policy: a £200 reduction in bills achieved by axing energy levies. As well as generating headlines, by offering to pay for a winner’s street-wide energy costs, the party is on a massive data-capture drive. This strategy is designed to build a robust digital footprint for future fundraising, recruitment, and targeted electoral campaigning. It’s all a bit grubby and potentially illegal from a data gathering perspective. Vote Leave did something similar in the 2016 EU Referendum campaign and claimed the data was very useful, so it’s interesting to see Reform UK try the same trick. Follow the data. Always make the news fit the narrative. Depressing stuff from Labour in the Gorton & Denton by-election. They are guilty of some horribly misleading campaigning. This is as bad as it gets. The Greens and Reform have been intensely guilty of misleading campaigning in this by-election. But Labour have lost any claim to the moral high ground with this awful stuff. To celebrate pancake day the Conservatives have released Flipping U-Turns, a browser-based game designed to convince the press that Keir Starmer has made 15 ‘flips’ since getting into power. It’s a bit of a tortuous pun, but a good effort to piggy back on a moment in culture to make an attack on a salient political issue. Members of Parliament are learning how it feels to be a Gorton and Denton resident today.

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