Election Celebrity Endorsements

[scirocco265]

The gloves are off, just over 2 weeks 'til the big day and the roll out of Celebrity supporters has begun, but does it matter if Michael Caine disagrees with Labour's 50% PAYE tax and Kirsty Allsopp wants a stop to Stamp Duty and HIPs? Is that really enough to swing your vote? Do people really pledge allegiance because Harry Potter or the last Dr Who say so?

Surely, other than being a source of much amusement for panel shows, there is no point to this? Gone are the days of Noel Gallagher going for scones at No. 10 with Tony.

(Although I for one am definitely voting Labour because Cheryl Cole does...)

[TankRizzo]

Sadly, there are those in the UK who are moronic enough to be swayed by such endorsements.

The same people can often be found reading Heat magazine and glued to Big Brother.

[Tuna]

"Hi, for tax purposes I rarely live in your country but you may know me from my successful screen appearances that have made me immensely more wealthy than you.

Happily for the party, you still see me as a person of the people, so they've asked me to say a few platitudes to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about voting for them. Now, my personal assistant tells me that times have been hard lately. To be honest I hadn't really realised just how hard as I was busy negotiating a million dollar contract on my next starring role. But now that I've given it a moment's thought, I can see how worrying it must be for you. Who will help you out?

It would be great if at this point I revealed that I have some experience - hell any experience - in economics, business or even running a family without a maid, three nannies, a personal assistant, gardener, driver and legal team. But I don't. I actually have to employ someone to tell me what city I'm in at any one time.

Luckily, I have met some of the terribly, terribly nice people from the party. They were awfully keen to show me how much they cared, and even brought along a case study of how they'd helped a poor, starving but worthy individual to avoid some awful personal fate. That made me feel happy and it should make you feel happy too. Before I was famous and when I was far too young to notice the effect of political parties on the real world, my family voted for them as well, which is probably why they thought I would like to see how nice they are.

I have absolutely no idea how their manifesto relates to running a country, nor whether they have any competence at doing so. Let's be honest - my personal success has divorced me from anything like real life for years now.

But I like them.

So, really, I think you should vote for them in the coming election. My life is pretty good right now and I'm sure it's almost entirely down to liking really nice people like the ones from the party who took me out for a nice meal at a rather exclusive club.

They showed me pictures of children who were sad at the people who don't vote for them.

Don't make the children sad. Don't make me sad. Don't make the party sad.

Just vote."

This was a celebrity endorsement for any political party you like.

[dilbert]

Tuna said:

"Hi, for tax purposes I rarely live in your country but you may know me from my successful screen appearances that have made me immensely more wealthy than you.

Happily for the party, you still see me as a person of the people, so they've asked me to say a few platitudes to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about voting for them. Now, my personal assistant tells me that times have been hard lately. To be honest I hadn't really realised just how hard as I was busy negotiating a million dollar contract on my next starring role. But now that I've given it a moment's thought, I can see how worrying it must be for you. Who will help you out?

It would be great if at this point I revealed that I have some experience - hell any experience - in economics, business or even running a family without a maid, three nannies, a personal assistant, gardener, driver and legal team. But I don't. I actually have to employ someone to tell me what city I'm in at any one time.

Luckily, I have met some of the terribly, terribly nice people from the party. They were awfully keen to show me how much they cared, and even brought along a case study of how they'd helped a poor, starving but worthy individual to avoid some awful personal fate. That made me feel happy and it should make you feel happy too. Before I was famous and when I was far too young to notice the effect of political parties on the real world, my family voted for them as well, which is probably why they thought I would like to see how nice they are.

I have absolutely no idea how their manifesto relates to running a country, nor whether they have any competence at doing so. Let's be honest - my personal success has divorced me from anything like real life for years now.

But I like them.

So, really, I think you should vote for them in the coming election. My life is pretty good right now and I'm sure it's almost entirely down to liking really nice people like the ones from the party who took me out for a nice meal at a rather exclusive club.

They showed me pictures of children who were sad at the people who don't vote for them.

Don't make the children sad. Don't make me sad. Don't make the party sad.

Just vote."

This was a celebrity endorsement for any political party you like.

More pertinent, is that;

"If you vote for my party, you might become a celebrity, just like me."

[AndrewW-G]

People spend a fortune supporting their favourites in “talent” shows on TV, not only by voting for them, but also by buying any st they happen to be selling

“Richard and Judy’s” book list apparently is one of the biggest sales influences for books in the UK (ok at least their reading something!)

The likes of Katie Price and Kerry Katona have made themselves wealthy from endorsements and selling “their harrowing story” to hello / goodbye / woohooo look at me etc

Why is it any surprise that the politicians are using the same marketing tools to persuade the people who spend their money on this st, to vote for them
It simply goes to show, how empty and hollow most people’s lives are, Ray Bradbury had it spot on with “Fahrenheit 451”..............

[ad551]

Funny you should mention this - I took this picture 5 minutes ago. Do you think there would have been this many people if a celebrity hadn't turned up to support our local Labour candidate?

(Hint: the celebrity is Eddie Izzard rather than Mr Blobby )



You couldn't actually hear what was being said but I guess that didn't really matter (this is on a university campus btw)

Edited by ad551 on Tuesday 20th April 15:07

[Roo]

Didn't I hear somewhere the other day that Heather Mills had voiced her support for one of the parties and they turned round and said no thanks.

[Pickled Piper]

Roo said:

Didn't I hear somewhere the other day that Heather Mills had voiced her support for one of the parties and they turned round and said no thanks.

i believe she actually turned out for the Lib Dems. Checkout the last episode of HIGNFY on BBC I player.

pp

[thinfourth2]

ad551 said:

Funny you should mention this - I took this picture 5 minutes ago. Do you think there would have been this many people if a celebrity hadn't turned up to support our local Labour candidate?

(Hint: the celebrity is Eddie Izzard rather than Mr Blobby )



You couldn't actually hear what was being said but I guess that didn't really matter (this is on a university campus btw)

So is mr blobby the candidate?

[Jasandjules]

Just a sad reflection of how stupid the general populace are, and how preposterous the celebrity culture is.