Remember that scene in The Simpsons where Mr. Burns dressed in a skull T-shirt and a purple beanie and pretended to be a local school student in the hopes of coaxing money out of Principal Skinner, who sees right through his facade with great bemusement?
That’s pretty much how we feel whenever the Liberal Party, or for that matter pretty much any major political party, makes an attempt at relating to the youth and not acting like the stuffed shirts from affluent backgrounds with black hearts fuelled by greed we know they are.
Case in point, the Liberal Party just tried to attack Labor by invoking what is probably the only contemporary musician they’re aware of besides Adele, Taylor Swift. The Coalition claimed Labor’s 10-year economic plan has “less words and more photos” than Tay-Tay’s last LP.
“A flimsy pamphlet is not a plan,” they wrote. The fact that it should actually be ‘fewer’ and not “less words” aside, the comparison completely fell flat with the people who’ll be taking to the polling booths in July, who reminded the party that 1989 is Tay’s best album.
“Pretty poor meme considering 1989 is widely regarded as her best work,” one commenter wrote, with many more following in kind. “I’d bet you could come up with similar arbitrary facts to mock any political pamphlet,” another commenter astutely pointed out.
Guess this is what happens when a political party tries to act witty. Check out all the carnage over on the party’s official Facebook page.
