Tag Archives: Labour

When David Cameron became PM the outgoing Labour team left a note in the Treasury that said “There’s no money left.” What short memories we have and also how history gets re-written so quickly. Labour have a reputation for consistently ...

I suppose we’d better write something about this: The governing Tories have kicked off their British General Election campaign (polling day is May 5) with a crappy poster showing the road ahead with them. Trouble is it’s supposed to be ...

Trevor Beattie, the founder of Beattie McGuinness Bungay, did a turn at the Advertising Week Europe conference today at which he announced that 30, 60 and any other second ad above five was a waste of time and space – ...

Most of us are aware of the famous ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ poster by Saatchi & Saatchi for the Conservative Party in 1979, even if not many people saw it (I think they only made one). Client and agency shot themselves ...

All these clever clogs chancellors of the UK exchequer come unstuck now and then (look at Gordon Brown) and hyper-ambitious current incumbent George Osborne (pictured) may just have made his big mistake by trying to sneak through his now-notorious ‘Granny ...

Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and ...

In the first of an occasional series Nick Lawson, CEO EMEA of WPP-owned media planning and buying giant MediaCom, picks his Desert Island Ads – ones which have influenced his career and the way he thinks of advertising. It’s a ...

Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And ...

Further evidence that market research has weathered the recession a little better than some of the other marketing disciplines emerged this week with the news that brand owners cut their research spending last year by almost five per cent, a ...