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The Tory party’s new logo Conservative party leader David Cameron has introduced a new logo for his party to replace the rather appealing (though not entirely apt) torch of liberty.
Admittedly, the stylised green smudge in the shape of an oak tree represents the Tories under Cameron far better than the bracing Thatcherite torch of liberty. According to the Times article linked above, this is the latest move in a process of ‘decontaminating the brand’. They could have accomplished that to their satisfaction, saved a lot of time and expense AND perfectly encapsulated the Cameronite Tory party by simply borrowing this existing logo.
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Ghu forfend that there was any liberty “contaminating the brand” of the Tory Party.
IMHO the Iron Lady needs to break off and join the Whigs.
Wasn’t Nathan Hale hung from an oak tree by Tory officers after the Battle of New York, where he said, “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country”???
Conservative or Conservationist?
40 grand for that! I coulda got the kid across the street to do it in five minutes. It looks like something you ought to get a Blue Peter badge for, and then only in sympathy for your learning difficulties. May I quote The Simpsons? “If I puked in a fountain pen and mailed it to the monkey house I’d get better.”
We live in interesting times. All three major parties seem to be doing their level best to lose the next election.
We’ll end up with a BNP/Green coalition in government and I’ll be joining a very long queue at Australia House.
A tree of Oak?… more like a line of Coke. That would be more appropriate an emblem for our bike-riding Old Etonian and funtime party-animal, “Dave” Cameron.
I always thought that the old Conservative Logo was the torch of knowledge.
Now it is a rather mediocre “least hated” option.
Still, to make any difference UKIP needs to ditch its retina-busting colour “scheme”. Maybe they are now free to adopt blue in their logo!
We shall see what Nigel “no cheese eating surrender-monkey, he” Farage comes up with.
Soften? They are already the very epitome of flaccid as it is.
Jeez, and I thought that an oak tree was the least “soft” tree there was. In the US the oak is a symbol of that which is tough, hard, old, old-fashioned, etc. Maybe the Tories should’ve adopted the Wheeping Willow as a symbol. More apt I’d say.
When are we going to get a proper libertarian party in the UK? That is, one I can vote for. And I don’t mean one of these crackpot “green libertarian” or “socialist libertarian” parties.
As Norman Tebbit said. This is not an oak tree, it is a stick of broccoli.
40,000 pounds! And a few of you actually think he’ll change back to a fiscal conservative once he is safely elected?
I think you better take him at his word and now look elsewhere.