‘Now more than ever’
Surreal Girl returned from the last awful death rattle of the political party conference season bearing gifts. As you would expect of anyone returning from a gathering of Tories in Blackpool – the tawdriest place in England – the gifts are of dubious quality. Alongside the obligatory stick of rock, was a blue mug with an image of Thatcher circa 1983 and the slogan: ‘Now more than ever’. If this line was not so ambiguous and the mug so capable of détournement, it could be classed as the most offensive gift I have ever received.
Labels: Blackpool, Margaret Thatcher, Tories
posted by David at 11:59 PM
2 Comments:
My "America is Scary" t-shirt came with a pin that says "Now more than ever!". (... and I almost wore that t-shirt to the airport when I flew home for my wedding. Fortunately, I realized what I had on and changed before I actually left.)
Heh. It's an interesting message. Maybe it's a warning about the impending delivery of a 100-ft mega-cyborg UltraMaggie that'll soon be rampaging down Regent Street, ripping the tops off buildings in a frenzied hunt for milk to confiscate...
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