English Nationalism and paranoia are natural bed-fellows. Watching the News or reading the 'paper - it's very easy to slide into an analytically anal overload (not a pretty site).... why aren't they saying this... what about the other..... it's not Britain, it's England you God damn Labour loving bastards....
I'm always looking for the hidden agenda, the things they're not saying. The massaging and manipulation of reality as the great media machine continues to do Nu Labour's bidding - it's in all walks of life and is relentless in its presentation of a supposed partnership of equals and a watery-eyed commitment to a beloved Union.
Which brings me to this advert - published in the last edition of the Sunday Times, Culture Magazine for the NS&I....
As a graphic designer, the first thing I noticed was the appallingly awful PhotoShop work - the same bloke can be seen in the crowd half-a-dozen times, and half the people are mirror images of the other half.... And then there are the flags fluttering away, celebrating that most apparently 'British' of cultural events, The Proms. Paranoia demanded that I count them, naturally.
The supporters of the Proud and historic nation of Scotland have 3 large flags fluttering.
The supporters of the Proud and historic nation of Wales have 3 large flags fluttering.
The supporters of the collection of regions reluctantly known as England have only 2 flags fluttering (and one of those is pitifully small).
Fortunately, England's fluttering flag quota is made up to three by the inclusion of a single large Union Flag.
So that's alright then...
1 comment:
I know exactly where you are coming from.
And it's not paranoia there is a conspiracy. From food labelling, to mass media.
No-one said it would be easy. But more come to the cause every day.
Our cause is just.
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