22 Nov 2011

This will definitely help end poverty.

"Anti-poverty campaigners are parodying the life of George Osborne in an internet comedy series that follows the "bumbling" chancellor as he takes street-dance lessons and struggles with fad diets."


No.

No no no no no NO.

Hard to know where to start, but perhaps with the mild suggestion that they should have made it funny.

Secondly, I would gently venture to suggest that making puerile attacks on the Chancellor of the Exchequer isn't going to make him any more likely to do what you want - and will make a lot of people think that your campaign is simply a politically-motivated attack rather than a genuine attempt to alleviate poverty.

Lastly, there's barely any connection between the sketch and the message - so if you make it to the end, you just have to read the rather lengthy pay-off.

The film should be part of the solution. This just adds to the problem.

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