Sloganeering

If you’ve been sitting at home for the past few weeks with the Netflix going, you may be aware that we’ve been living in a new Golden Age of Television for some time.

Are we also living in a new Golden Age of Sloganeering?

Dude. You're wearing that facemask all wrong | The bandaged traffic warden from 1984 BBC apocalyptic drama Threads

STAY HOME | PROTECT THE NHS | SAVE LIVES

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Say what you like about the reckless negligence of the British government and its various recent offshoots and predecessors, they sure as hell know how to write a slogan.

The 10 Downing Street Daily Coronavirus Briefing, yesterday.<br /><br />Or Bob Flag as Big Brother in the 1984 film version of, er, 1984.

TAKE BACK CONTROL
GET BREXIT DONE
STAY HOME | PROTECT THE NHS | SAVE LIVES

Actually, the Ministry of Truth may have outsmarted themselves with that last one. BBC Pravda and The Daily Torygraph have been fretting over recent days that the government’s messaging has been so effective that citizens may be reluctant to snotter all over Wales and the Highlands and Islands now that the lockdown has been eased in England.

Pensioners flaunt lockdown rules at fifth home<br /><br />The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall clap for NHS and frontline workers during the UK coronavirus outbreak

HAHAHA! Well done!! That’s hilarious!!!

I even found myself saying to the Wee Man in the middle of the night the other day

STAY IN BED | EAT YOUR PASTA | SAVE LIVES
Me, the other day. Did I not just say that?

So, they’ve applied a handbrake turn. And, to give them their due, they’ve not gone with the blindingly obvious DO AS THOU WILT | SELL THE NHS | KILL THE PROLES. Instead, they’ve affected staggering incompetence to effectively have the English public carry out their instructions.