Racist Tory election ads
News From Nowhere | 18.03.2005 23:28 | Anti-racism | Liverpool
Seen today at Edge Lane & Smithdown Road, billboard ads for the Tories
that read:
'It's not racist to impose limits on immigration ... are you thinking
what we're thinking?'
that read:
'It's not racist to impose limits on immigration ... are you thinking
what we're thinking?'
The billboards simply consist of the words on a white background.
While the words above might not look too threatening, wait till you
see them on a billboard several feet high in a public place.
This isn't an attack on an opposing party, this is an attack on
hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens of non-English origin.
Whatever the Tories thought they meant, the effect is to imply that
racism is acceptable. The anti-immigration bandwagon with its
dangerous consequences rolls on.
The Advertising Standards Authority website says that they don't deal
with complaints about election ads, and refers to the Electoral
Commission, but I couldn't find anything specific about making
complaints on the Electoral Commission website.
There's an online contact form for the Electoral Commission at:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/toolkit/contacts.cfm
And the ASA complaints form is:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complaints_form/
While the words above might not look too threatening, wait till you
see them on a billboard several feet high in a public place.
This isn't an attack on an opposing party, this is an attack on
hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens of non-English origin.
Whatever the Tories thought they meant, the effect is to imply that
racism is acceptable. The anti-immigration bandwagon with its
dangerous consequences rolls on.
The Advertising Standards Authority website says that they don't deal
with complaints about election ads, and refers to the Electoral
Commission, but I couldn't find anything specific about making
complaints on the Electoral Commission website.
There's an online contact form for the Electoral Commission at:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/toolkit/contacts.cfm And the ASA complaints form is:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complaints_form/
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