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"Stay alert" - new govenment messaging
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Si Gull
Way Down South
Government and its advisors are plumbing new depths of ineptitude.
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Watch out
Watch out
There's a
Humphrey
About
Watch out
There's a
Humphrey
About
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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and to think, a group of people probably spent days to come up with that. even the colour is daft.
AmexRuislip
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I think one telling the fvckwit journos, not to ask stupid questions would be apt!
Machiavelli
Well-known member
Well, I thought their initial slogan was good. Clear, succinct.
But that was a simple message to announce a drastically new situation.
But easing out of lockdown was never going to involve simple messaging. It was always going to be incremental, and providing different messages to different audiences. And none of that is amenable to simple sloganeering. Unfortunately, Johnson and Cummings seem only to be able to think in terms of simple slogans.
But that was a simple message to announce a drastically new situation.
But easing out of lockdown was never going to involve simple messaging. It was always going to be incremental, and providing different messages to different audiences. And none of that is amenable to simple sloganeering. Unfortunately, Johnson and Cummings seem only to be able to think in terms of simple slogans.
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
RossyG
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- Dec 20, 2014
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Vile colours.
My reading of stay alert is to use hand hygiene, not invade people's personal spaces, isolate if you feel any symptoms etc... Although Twitter seems to be gleefully pretending to not understand what stay alert in this context might mean.
At least they've dropped the mawkish 'Protect the NHS'.
My reading of stay alert is to use hand hygiene, not invade people's personal spaces, isolate if you feel any symptoms etc... Although Twitter seems to be gleefully pretending to not understand what stay alert in this context might mean.
At least they've dropped the mawkish 'Protect the NHS'.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Cummings doings again? Can't be accidental shirley that it means whatever you want it to mean. Will get all the flak it thoroughly deserves. Utterly contemptible. So much so that I wouldn't be in the least surprised if it gets revamped before 7pm this evening
daveinplzen
New member
- Aug 31, 2018
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Stay alert! Your country needs Lerts
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Note the colour change in the Border from red (danger) to green (go).
Robet Jenrick told Andrew Marr this morning that "Stay alert will mean stay alert by staying home as much as possible."
Can't say I found 'Protect the NHS' particularly mawkish. Preventing the health service from being overwhelmed was a key part of the strategy.
If it was, Don't go out and infect others you selfish pricks
Even that wouldn't stop some so really nothing really works
Even that wouldn't stop some so really nothing really works
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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This. We all signed up to staying home on the implicit understanding that by doing so we would be helping protect the NHS and helping save lives.
If the new slogan turns out to be accurate (still 7 hours for it to be revamped) then it deserves all the stick it gets. Sake! Why are hmgov so rubbish?
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Personally hadn’t a problem with the ‘new’ one until ive just read your comment over staying at home as much as possible...if thats the case why change it?
As regards to Scotland I’m not interested in what Sturgeon is saying all she is bothered with is getting one over Westminster
It's awful. It certainly wont read like that to the average idiots chomping at the bit to get out after fridays headlines in the press they will see no mention of staying home and assume as long as they are careful they can get back to normal