by frog
All third parties will be making the same point during the last week of the campaign: no single party can govern alone, and nor should we want them to. The reason Kiwis opted for MMP was that they were sick of single parties in power doing the opposite of what they said they’d do. There was a clamouring for more consensual decision-making, and an eschewing of absolute power being handed to a single political party.
We’ve had the above insurance certificate mocked up to make this point. The thinking behind the certificate is as follows:
Because neither large party can govern alone, a party vote this Saturday for the Greens is actually the most effective way to keep National out. Even better, a Green-Labour Government is the combination that can deliver the most progressive polices in the next three years and beyond.
Published in Campaign by frog on Mon, September 12th, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Aren’t insurance agents nasty, money grubbing hucksters using fear to get people to sign policies which are riddled with out-clauses, allowing them to refuse claims under a myriad of excuses?
Sure you want to go with that analogy, frog, I’m surprised that someone didn’t get to your advert designers and point out that associations with dubious “service” industries might be avoided.
There’s a marvellous film with Billy Conolly in it (ok, set in Australia, but all our insurance companies are too) which discusses at lenght and with much humour how iniquitous and self-serving Insurance companies truly are. Where do you think all the leakage from the Super fund went – fees to the various financial instutions whose products were the investments. Makes pyramid schemes look almost legal!!!
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The movie was “The Man who Sued God”… yeah, was a good movie. I like the greens ad though
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Humm… And what do the Greens stand FOR, again?
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Real issues instead of personal greed.
but you wouldnt know about that would you craig, as long as you benefit, right?
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But sadly the insurance company went out of business because the Greens voted to have a state monopoly for workplace accident insurance.
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tha was good actually david i can’t think of any clever witticism to follow
but i like stymmies approach, bc i only c what i wanna c i like greens ad too;)
come on mate the greens can be clever too
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maybe it needs a visual refrence to the type of car insurance that the phrase comes from. making stronger the link between how the greens can help ensure more cars stay on the road longer, by reducing demand.
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yeah, I thought the insurance analogy was poor as well, why not a government bond? The pictured certificate looks more like a financial bond than something to do with insurance anyway.
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