Labour campaign posters 'anti-semetic'

[FightingFat]

thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16293354?source=Evening%20Standard

Labour was today battling to get its general election campaign back on track after the embarrassing withdrawal of its election posters.

They’ve been blasted particularly for the watch swinging one and the flying pigs one.

Do you think they’re anti-semetic?

 

[katherine2]

FightingFat:

Do you think they’re anti-semetic?

I’ve consulted my Shakespeare and its not a line from the Merchent of Venice. I don’t get how it would be.

 

[FightingFat]

Well I think they were over-reacting, but Mr. Howard is Jewish, and he’s been super-imposed on a picture of Fagin (from Oliver Twist) so they’re saying that he’s being portrayed as a ‘money grabbing Jew’.