UKIP Unveil Their Most Polished Poster Campaign Ever

Daily Mail
April 24, 2014

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Not quite as hard hitting as the recent Swiss and French campaigns, but at least they are truthful.

Ukip was plunged into a race storm yesterday after unveiling a series of posters campaigning against EU immigration.

The party has paid for billboards across the country to be emblazoned with messages such as: ‘26million people in Europe are looking for work. And whose jobs are they after?’

Another has a picture of a construction worker begging on the street, with the slogan: ‘EU policy at work. British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour.’

The £1.5million campaign is funded by the Yorkshire businessman Paul Sykes, who is a former Tory donor.

All the posters call on voters to ‘Take Back Control of Our Country’ by backing Ukip in European elections on May 22.

But they were immediately condemned by rival politicians.

Labour MP Mike Gapes said he hoped the ‘racist posters encourage all decent British Commonwealth and EU citizens’ to vote for another party next month.

He added: ‘It is time for all democrats to expose lies and hatred being peddled by Ukip and defend British values of tolerance and respect for others.’

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This one has been likened to the recent BNP campaign of ‘British jobs for British workers’. Only someone who hates the British people could disagree with a sentiment like that.

Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, said: ‘Don’t tolerate those who talk down Britain’s chances of competing in the global economy. I’m not with Ukip because I don’t want to stop the world and get off to sulk.’

But Ukip leader Nigel Farage said the posters were ‘a hard-hitting reflection of reality’ and only the ‘chattering classes’ would object.

One contained a dramatic image of a burning Union Jack with the European Union flag emerging from the flames. It carried the words: ‘Who really runs this country?’ Another contains a picture of Britons commuting to work on a bus next to an image of a EU official being chauffeur driven.

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