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Anyone want to see Tony Blair in a racist Tory election poster from 1909?

Post 1

Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/poster-for-the-british-conservative-party-from-the-general-news-photo/91932899

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Anyone want to see Tony Blair in a racist Tory election poster from 1909?

Post 2

Secretly Not Here Any More

Hah! Love it*.


The likeness to Tony Blair, not the racist content, natch.


Anyone want to see Tony Blair in a racist Tory election poster from 1909?

Post 3

Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master

Yeah I have to say it rather tickled me!

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Anyone want to see Tony Blair in a racist Tory election poster from 1909?

Post 4

Orcus

smiley - biggrin

smiley - ok


Anyone want to see Tony Blair in a racist Tory election poster from 1909?

Post 5

Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk

Striking likeness to Blair (and it is indeed striking) aside, I don't get it. Is 'Wun Lung' a pun implying someone with only half the standard amount of respiration organs? Or was he someone well-known at the time?
I guess you had to have been there/then.


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