MakemineVanilla Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) Corporate capture in pictures: Cabinet meets at Shell HQ. Exhibit B. This shows the cabinet as passive servants of Cameron's dynamic leadership: everyone is either totally passive or grinning inanely, while Cameron thrusts his chin out and flexes his torso. Clegg is looking at him with the mild contempt of the bride's father looking at his son-in-law in a wedding photo. Cameron might not be sitting bare-chested on a horse like Putin but the message is the same. Edit: I like the way Cameron is looking off into the distance (seeing a vision of the future apparently) and how the light touches his crown, giving the hint of a halo, while in the foreground, all eyes look at Dave with reverence and someone is even praying to him, like de vinci's Last Supper. Edited March 7, 2014 by MakemineVanilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Corporate capture in pictures: Cabinet meets at Shell HQ. Cameron might not be sitting bare-chested on a horse like Putin but the message is the same. "Welcome to Narnia, call me Dave" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 When are they going to learn that all these staged pictures are a really bad idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That;s some leap from a picture of someone on the phone I think if you saw that image alone, without any understanding of previous images, and the way PR seeks to manipulate perceptions through the creation of essentially false and staged images, that would be a reasonable reaction. But we all know, don't we, that the picture is posed with the specific intent of conveying gravitas, statesmanship and the like. The reason there are now many thousands of pisstaking sendups of the picture circulating the internet is because the staging is so transparent, so blatant, and so unsuccessful, as to make it an object of derision. Here's another where they screwed up quite badly. You'd think as a former PR person, Cameron would realise how shockingly poor these efforts are. Or perhaps that's the standard he worked to in that job, as well as his present one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Who the hell puts their armchair that close to the TV seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 And why he wearing what appears to be a darts shirt?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Dave's such a regular guy enjoying the boxing. Like Tony and his mug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You would also think that he'd be able to easily upgrade to a 50 inch lcd as well and a recliner that way he wouldn't have to sit so close He could just put it on his expenses tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 He's a big sports fan. All kinds of sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Hitler would have been proud of the last picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That;s some leap from a picture of someone on the phone I think if you saw that image alone, without any understanding of previous images, and the way PR seeks to manipulate perceptions through the creation of essentially false and staged images, that would be a reasonable reaction. But we all know, don't we, that the picture is posed with the specific intent of conveying gravitas, statesmanship and the like. The reason there are now many thousands of pisstaking sendups of the picture circulating the internet is because the staging is so transparent, so blatant, and so unsuccessful, as to make it an object of derision. Here's another where they screwed up quite badly. You'd think as a former PR person, Cameron would realise how shockingly poor these efforts are. Or perhaps that's the standard he worked to in that job, as well as his present one. I'm sure Peter, but I was admiring the Psychological take on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You do have to wonder where all these nasty attacks on the disabled are leading http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10681076/Recession-has-heightened-euthanasia-danger-to-disabled-and-elderly-claims-peer.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You do have to wonder where all these nasty attacks on the disabled are leading http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10681076/Recession-has-heightened-euthanasia-danger-to-disabled-and-elderly-claims-peer.html Never mind the scroungers. Let's hear it for hardworking people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I have no interest in politics but I will say 10 downing street was a nice place! Is that the first Villa fans house you've ben to? It was until my recent night with Ajax 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 screen shot 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 7, 2014 Author Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2014 I have no interest in politics but I will say 10 downing street was a nice place!Is that the first Villa fans house you've ben to? It was until my recent night with Ajax From Flash(man) to Ajax, you need to visit a fairy next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You do have to wonder where all these nasty attacks on the disabled are leading http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10681076/Recession-has-heightened-euthanasia-danger-to-disabled-and-elderly-claims-peer.html Never mind the scroungers. Let's hear it for hardworking people. screen shot on a pc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) May only be a local council by election, but fifth place behind the Elvis bus pass party http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/07/lib-dems-beaten-by-bus-pass-elvis-party-in-clifton-north-by-election-4457529/?ITO=facebook Edited March 7, 2014 by mockingbird_franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 7, 2014 Author Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2014 May only be a local council by election, but fifth place behind the Elvis bus pass party http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/07/lib-dems-beaten-by-bus-pass-elvis-party-in-clifton-north-by-election-4457529/?ITO=facebook tbf they don't normally even field a candidate in that ward but yes to be behind the joke party is pretty sad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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