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With British campaign season full upon us, I found a few links to the British campaign posters of the last campaign, in 2001. I happened to be working outside of London during most of the month-long campaign, missing election day only for a quick jaunt stateside for my sister's wedding. (Hi Laura!)

Anyway, since the Brits aren't allowed to do paid TV commercials (they get free broadcast time for that), they spend their campaign funds on big giant billboards. And unlike the political discourse we get here in America, these are hilarious. My favorite example was the movie-parody series that Labour did, with one billboard predicting "Economic Disaster II" if the Tories got back in control, and another one showing the Conservatives walking around like zombies, because if they won your house would become one of "The Repossessed."

And now, I've finally found links to revisit the memories. I'll just jump right in:

A substantive discussion, from 2001, of that election's posters

The posters themselves, more easily visible

Campaign posters throughout history

And no, I don't have the 2005 posters; if anyone else has a link, let me know.