People are brutally mocking the Change UK election bus – our 11 favourite takedowns
You can tell the Euro election campaigning has really begun in earnest when the big political parties unveil their ‘battle buses’.
And Change UK, formerly known as the Independent Group, formerly known as a bunch of politicians you mostly hadn’t heard of, have got an election bus all of their own.
And it’s, well, it’s really quite something to behold.
A bus! It’s a real election now pic.twitter.com/xIfF284zzL
— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) May 13, 2019
It prompted no end of piss-taking on Twitter, of which these are our favourites.
1.
I didn't know you could print a Word document straight onto a bus https://t.co/XjcVn5HULy
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) May 13, 2019
2.
This looks like when I rush my homework and increase the size of my calibri font to 50 https://t.co/yTH6CDe256
— Rose (@thelittleleftie) May 13, 2019
3.
It looks like a Tesco Value bus. Why can’t this lot get their act together?
— Steven Price (@SPricey32) May 13, 2019
4.
This is genuinely what you’d get if someone told me to design a campaign bus in five minutes using nothing but Microsoft Paint. https://t.co/ZXrxMqIFnS
— James Manning-Monro (@JamesManning) May 13, 2019
5.
Surely their pitch deserves better branding/design than this. It’s the worst political messaging on a bus I’ve seen in ages. https://t.co/daGJy3tt1o
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) May 14, 2019
6.
This is why you shouldn't do graphic design in Microsoft Word https://t.co/Z0ZPYyRaCD
— Graham Love (@GLove39) May 13, 2019
7.
https://twitter.com/ellenfromnowon/status/1128002957734232066
8.
That is the worst election bus this country has ever seen. No wonder they are polling so shite https://t.co/QPZRRudBMI
— Jack Holmes (@Jholmes987) May 13, 2019
9.
Even their battlebus looks like it’s been designed by committee https://t.co/VC4CV7pnwV
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) May 13, 2019
10.
Their Union Flag is upside down 😄
— Tom Rose (@esortom) May 13, 2019
The flag being displayed upside down is a naval thing; it indicates to others that the sad-looking coach is suffering from illness, sickness and is quarantined to stop others boarding! Seems very appropriate 😉
— s gravenor (@stewlongbody) May 13, 2019
11.
my god. who is doing their design work.
— champayne socialist (@lewiswpayne) May 13, 2019
TextEdit.
— Gary Hudson (@spiritbased) May 13, 2019
To conclude …
OMG. Who on earth is in charge of their PR and marketing? Talk about embarrassing. https://t.co/W5LNGQEYSo
— Iain Dale (@IainDale) May 13, 2019
