Public Relations geniuses fail British Prime Minister
Dear me.
Is this the single worst picture of British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown?
He’s posing here on the campaign trail for London Mayor, Ken Livingstone. The picture is from the London Evening Standard front page.
Some bright spark has obviously taken a picture of him on their piece-of-crap decades-old camera phone and decided to show it to him. At least, I hope that’s the case. Or perhaps the chap in the Turban is showing him a picture he’s taken. The handset is so old and rubbish I can’t even identify the make. LG, is it? On network 3UK?
To make matters worse, there’s a chap to the top left of the picture smiling, wearing shades, who’s clearly holding some 2 year old Nokia-with-a-camera. I wonder if it’s even a megapixel camera?
There’s not an N95 among them.
The public relations gurus at Number 10 must work harder to make the Prime Minister at least look modern. Posing with decades old handsets doesn’t cut it!
The Chap wearing the cool shades is using a Nokia 6230i… 1,3mp!
You could easily mistake this photo being a good few yrs old!
Posted by Jakaraka on April 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am.Wanted: Mobile PR Guru
Tasks:
To ensure PM is seen with the latest handset.
To ensure PM is seen nowhere near a handset made pre-circa 2007.
Install and maintain ‘teh latezt’ applications on PM’s handset.
To set up and maintain a Flickr account for the PM, (this to include the latest ‘Zoo Show’)
Expected titles of future (geotagged) photos:
“This is me in the Middle East”
“Gordon and George on the lawn”
“Me and the new French President”
Candidate must have some
sense (of the common variety), have ‘previous’ in the ‘blog-os-fear’ and no current political views preferable.
A knowledge of ‘the space’ would be advantageous.
Yours,
Downing Street.
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Posted by Whatleydude on April 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am.Are you taking the piss? Is this really a PR failure in the context of the last 11 years. I doubt it is the worst even today. And what is it with N95’s? Why do people love these phones so much?
Posted by AJ on April 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm.