Notorious attack ad against Sadiq Khan reflects political era where social media is used to provoke outrage
One of the more depressing political lessons from the Brexit campaign was that it doesn’t necessarily matter if nobody believesan extra £350m a week, just as long as they are talking about it. And it seems to be one taken to heart by the Conservatives.against the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, was initially almost baffled amusement: was this thing actually meant to be taken seriously?
Londoners, viewers were informed, were terrified to leave their homes, and if they did it was mainly to buy drugs. Forced out of their cars, they would “stay inside or go underground”, the latter presumably a reference to the generally popular and safe tube network. Whatever the reasons, the statistics speak for themselves. The one-minute 40-second video has now been viewed nearly 6m times on X.from Hall’s campaign released about the same time, in which she also talks about crime and the ultra-low emission zone , but in a more traditional – and factual – way, has in contrast amassed fewer than 200,000 views on YouTube.
Some Tory MPs have previously complained about the more freewheeling elements of the party’s social media feed, for example a tweet from December that showed a BBC presenter caught on cameraIt is worth stressing, however, that such off-piste and sometimes downright unpleasant tactics are by no means new, even if Brexit arguably took them to a new level.
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