Anyone else put off by all the negative campaigning?

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Lots of election posters around now - new ones being unveiled every day.

Is it just me who gets really hacked off by the fact that they all say:

DON'T VOTE X BECAUSE...

I would much rather they said:

Vote for us because...

Totally agree. It's all about bashing the other parties rather than clarifying their own policies. Grrr.

yes me too, remind me of twats arguing in the classroom, so and so does this miss

think most are useless self promoting tossers anyway

The trouble is that positive posters are too easily hijacked by the internet.

The Cameron "I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS" ones were a real failure for the Tories.

Much harder to poke fun at negative ones.

I have noticed that positive stuff is generally confined to leaflets and the party political broadcasts on TV, whereas most billboards are negative.

I would also distinguish between personal negative and policy negative. Examples of personal negative are the stupid Tony Blair demon eyes poster in 1997, or the vaguely anti-semitic Michael Howard flying pigs poster in 2005. Whereas the policy negative ones are like the one I see on my way to work, with a picture of Gordon Brown looking stupid, saying "I doubled the national debt, vote for me". I don't mind the policy negative so much, they are a fair form of comment.

no i love it
bring it on

If you want an antidote to "they've done a rotten job/they'd do a rottener one!" the party websites are a lot more positive.