Eighties revival

David and Ed Miliband launching a launching a useless Labour election poster isn't newsworthy in itself - the surprising part of this story is that the poster actually won some sort of competition - I can only presume the competition was to come up with something that would backfire as badly as the recent Conservative efforts. As Channel 4 News notes:

On the final weekend before Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to call a general election for 6 May, brothers David and Ed Miliband launched the poster campaign, which was the winner of a public competition,

The poster the Conservative leader sitting on the bonnet of an Audi Quattro like that driven by politically-incorrect TV detective Gene Hunt in the BBC1 series Ashes To Ashes, next to the slogan: "Don't let him take Britain back to the 1980s..."

But Mr Cameron said he was "flattered" by the comparison and Tories quickly produced a spoof version of the poster drawing on Hunt's catchphrase: "Fire up the Quattro. It's time for change."

All this eighties nostalgia seems to have gone to shadow home secretary Chris Grayling's head:

"I personally always took the view that... if you look at the case of 'Should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from their hotel?'

"I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home."

Section 28, anybody? Back to the good old homophobic eighties...