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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2015
- The UK's Labour Party has painted a campaign van pink in an attempt to attract women voters. We are glad they didn't keep going with that strategy.
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The whole issue with the pink van being patronizing to women isn't about the fact that the van is pink.
It's about the fact that THAT'S what they did to reach out to women. Not some ads about women in the industries, or high-profile female workers, etc.
Pink vans. That's their effort.
Kind of like people who voted for Hillary Clinton BECAUSE she doesn't have a penis between her legs.
Of course there's nothing wrong with the idea of a politician being female, and the alternative was worse, but if I were American, I'd vote for Hillary - NOT because she's female. Because she's not Trump. And that's it really. She's not particularly good or anything like that.
Liran Piade I mean, she’s been in the political sphere for a good long while, and seems to get a lot of respect from both sides of the party. Which is why the Republican side found it so important to bash her (even before the election)
@@liranpiade4499 Personally, I'd vote for the Pony. LOOK AT HOW CUUUTE IT IS!
I mean. I don't know if the distinction is that vast. But, yeah. Exactly. That was their effort.
I have gotten detention for less effort, lol.
But, you're correct, dude. Lol.
Just saying: if this was a school project? It would get an F
When I realized it was John's voice in the mock ad I lost it. All I could think of was him recording in a studio shouting, "PONY PONY PONY"!
It's not his voice
Or is it
He, also, has hit rock bottom. What happened to witty political satire?
Cheer up boys a party in love with a racist insane war criminal is only 3 points behind a party in love with an incompetant alcoholic buffoon
@@TheUrbanEpicure he is still good even if you might not like what he says.
I appreciate the fact that Oliver talks to a U.S. audience about U.K. politics in a non-condescending way.
@@maximilianbradford-thomson richard feynman
@@maximilianbradford-thomson
You idiot.
you're right about that but my point still stands.
Well, non-condescending except that he kicks off by saying "both parties" because, what?, Americans can't understand the concept of having more than two parties? The third-largest party was in coalition with one of the "two" parties at the time this video was made, for crying out loud. It had approximately 10% of MPs at that time.
Yeah he’s decent considering he’s taking to ponies .
It's not pink... It's lightish red.
+Josh M
Just say the color in its RGB hexadecimal representation, if you don't want to say its name.
Probably shouldn't have expected anyone to know RvB quotes here.
+Josh M Oh, don't worry. There's probably a few.
+Josh M bwahahaha Lightish Red "Princess Pony Pink"
+Josh M I came here for this comment.
But what is the other party's policy on pretty princess ponies?
Depends who you ask
Alliteration!
Hopefully not a lasagna in sight.
danehb89 Having searched tirelessly for this policy which is absolutely critical in the election battle, I can confirm that UKIP's is British pretty princess ponies for British women wearing British flags, crowns, lion and unicorn crests, and whinnying in a subtly racist manner. None for immigrants and especially no foreign ponies. UKIP: tackling the hard issues on ponies for women.
Well the Conservative party offered me a unicorn to vote for them.
The Labour Party is gonna have to step up their game if they want to compete
I'm a guy, but I must say, that pony was adorable.
Made me want to vote labor.
It was very fluffy.
As a horse owner (and labour party voter LOL), I must say I find it hilarious how that pony is genuinely standing in the video just falling asleep and enjoying itself. Must be a hell of a chill pony that can take standing in a bright studio like that and just be like "um yeah, life is pretty awesome, ima just stand here and yawn"
Go on, PET THE PRETTY PRINCESS PONY! 3:30
Jeanette Wittstein do it NOW
I absolutely lost it at 'desperately trying to act like I don't know the colour pink.'
PONY PONY PONY
I don't know what to make of the fact your avatar is a pink pony lol
@@xorenpetrosyan2879
I'd say I'm more cerise, or at the very least, magenta!
@@Meteorite_Shower lol
POOOOOOOOOOONNNYYYYY
Oh my, I'm watching John Oliver for hours already...
Call help o_o
I stopped counting in hours mate.
I stopped counting in time allready
It's day 3; please, send help.
+Kiko Tanto guys , I am not eating I am not sleeping, cannot stop watching this man, please help me, BY SENDİNG MORE FUCKING JOHN OLİVER VİDEOS !
Lucian Sultan It's 1:53 AM EST help me
The Pretty Princess Pony campaign: Appealing to women and certain creepy middle-aged men.
***** Your OC is terrible, and you should be ashamed.
As a pony, I am offended! O_O
Doctor Who is a kids programme so I guess you must a be creepy too.
Umm guys...I hate to intrude but most Bronies are actually in the 19 to 20s range...the same range which furries and anime fans inhabit.
hello
How to damage control; "Yeah, its pink. So what? You dont like pink? I like pink, and its my car."
Congratulations, problem solved. Denial doesnt work.
You should become a political advisor.
They wanted to draw attention, then got it, then ruined it.
duo1666 it's black and blue...
you should never paint a car pink, it hides both body lines and accents and generally makes the designer have to work harder to bring out the features.
Exactly, if you admitted that is pink and then you tell them there is nothing wrong with it, you can turn the tables around
This is offensive both ways. What if I, a male, wants to pet the pony? ;-;
Dragonitecaptor how dare you! My pony has been a princess for years, and she has definitely earned the right to! She has been drinking from little teacups with her surgically attached pinky out since the day she was born!
Dragonitecaptor you know what, I'm not even gonna bother arguing with an idiot like you.. My pony and I know that she is indeed a proper pretty pink princess pony
I agree men should also be aloud to pet the pony.
I would vote for them to get to pet the pony
Then I suggest that you vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party .
They should go for the Pony Campaign, it could work. Labour Party is magic!
+Hodoss
xD
it's a joke you virgin
To be honest, I'm French. So I barely understand the subtle political implications at play here. I was just being a cunt =D.
We need to finally take a stand when political parties think that the "women's" vote is some minority when women make up 51% of the world's population. Maybe if you just treated women like a citizen of your country then they would vote for you.
There are more men in the world then women. Chine kinda made sure of that with their one child policy.
@@marvelgirlxvii What? How can there be more deers than deers in the world? Or more people than people? They are the same set.
@@aritrobanerjee582 whoops didn’t realize that typo. Thx.
@@marvelgirlxvii yeah the population of women recently decreased to about 49% give or take
So glad that John Oliver's Last Week Tonight got renewed for two more seasons!!
He deserves it. Informative and very funny content at the same time :]
I don't know what I'm going to do when this show ends.
Bumble Bees Buy a Pony
Bumble Bees maybe host the daily show because he is the best fit for it
you're just happy because of the Pony
Bitch, I fucking see you everywhere. TMZ, The tonight's show, and now here.
You know what's getting on my nerves? There's the PC Police, but worse than them is now the Anti-PC Police Police. Every critique or push-back is now equated to "offended." That woman on the video basically said "I don't think this bus is a good idea and here's why." That is a critque. But people are taking it, and just about every other push-back that disagrees with their own views, as people rolling on the floor in fits of offense. One can't make a legitimate observation about something they perceive as problematic anymore because people will come out and (arguably offended) mobs accusing them of being "offended" or "too PC."
Well said
No, the PC police are still far worse.
Finally someone who GETS IT
Omg finally someone who gets it
Well I guess it's...
their little pony.
*puts on a shade*
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah!
What color was that baby dressed in from head to toe when that woman spoke out about how patronizing the color pink is?
Oh, hmmmmm
Yes, a woman dressing her daughter in an pink outfit is patronizing to women. Great point. (sarcasm)
No, hypocrisy is only bad when men do it. Derp.
Diana Peña That is your opinion.
DG
Whoosh
I understood your attempt to project an opinion onto me. It didn't work. Hypocrisy is not bound by any gender. It's a ridiculous statement to make. You made it, not me.
Princess pony by day, crime-solving pony by night.
Labour would have won the election if they used a unicorn. Lack of unicorn gave us pig boy.
This pig boy?
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+No Say Tell that to Scotland :D.
Jeremy Corbyn will nationalise the Unicornways and rebuild the Trade Unicorn Unions.
Never work with children or animals. Especially unicorns. Scotland adopted the unicorn as it's national animal and it turned SNP so unicorns are disloyal b******s. So the safest policy with unicorns is the same as illegal drugs. JUST SAY NO OR YOU TOO MIGHT WIND UP IN YELLOW TARTAN!
@@Jaxymann And issue unconvincing denials that he's prejudiced against Jewnicorns.
"the Labour party may have a chance to capitalise"
what irony
I'd rather vote for that pony than Donald Trump
Because giving huge tax breaks to the rich will totally solve the US' debt crisis, learn about basic subtraction and maybe you would understand that losing more money than what u gain actually means u have a larger deficit, hence larger accumulation of debt.
I think that pony IS Trump... Look at the hairs.
How dare you insult the Pretty Princess Pony by comparing it to Trump!
YOU DON'T GET TO PET THE PRETTY PRINCESS PONY!
Jeanette Wittstein NOOOOOOO! I WANT TO PET THE PRETTY PRINCESS PONY'S PRETTY PONY PRINCESS PONY HAIR!
Probably has more political experience than trump.
3:06
All things aside, that pony seems to be really enjoying the brushing.
"Reaching out to women" is only necessary, if your party does not CONSIST to significant parts of women. They treat the topic as if women were some kind of different species with different means of communication... And if you really want to be voted by more women, maybe have a female candidate that pushes for women's rights...
The Tory party has had three women Prime Ministers while Labour has never had a woman leader. (Okay, one was only PM for three weeks but she still counts)
@@karlbassett8485 She still counts :'DDD she would have probably taken back all women's rights on the labor market instantly, if she could have.
Oh, that commercial was just wonderful! The sheer look of disgust on that woman's face when he asked her to pet the pony! xD, I fell off of my chair laughing!
Who the fuck cares what colour the van is? Does it really matter? I mean, what colour should they have painted it?
Oh no, but muh patriarchy! Can't you see that women are oppressed by the color of a van? IT IS NOT A FIRST WORLD PROBLEM!
My thought exactly. Why make a big fuss out of what colour the bloody van is when people should really care about each party's policies on gender issues? I am not from the UK so I am not particularly inclined to any party, but this just seems shallow.
Zeltasz
And what made you think that? How were they sexist?
Diana Peña by making the van pink as an attempt to appeal to female voters they implied that women can otherwise not be interested in politics unless they made the van a specifically "feminin" colour. By denying so hard that the van was pink its pretty clear that that was what they had intended
Tom, you ever consider that you looked to much into it, especially since the campaign is run by a woman?
Why not a crime solving pony!?
***** You missed the joke.
Gideon Ho lol i got it (he is talking about the HBO last week tonight season 2 ad.)
ABitSillyPony That's a bit silly, pony.
I'll show myself out.
How about a pony that tackles the big issues like Scotland's oil and nuclear non-proliferation?
Only if it wears a Sherlock Holmes-hat.
I WANT THE PRETTY PONY!!!!!!! PRETTY PONY PRINCESS FOR THE WIN!!!
Aaaaah, the days when a pink bus was the most offensive thing in politics
oh yeah this days
This would be like trying to appeal to all men by driving around with a blue van with guns and beer painted on it while the driver shouts at men to vote for them with an obnoxious "action hero voice".
You mean that wouldn't work?
Yeah, but that would work for men like me!! 😂 😂
Men are, as a group, ignored by modern politics. Whereas the idea you describe would be equally facile and patronising, it would at least be a start for the idea that men have separate issues that are not shared by women and should be addressed by political parties, just as those of women are addressed.
@@Norvik_-ug3ge the are not ignored, they are just not being approached by political parties because parties already consider men more involved into politics (this is true especially for older people and the traditional household gender stereotypes of women not caring/talking about politics) and also because men already benefit more from policies. example, the last EU Commision study found that on average women make 14,8% less than men (i dont care about what happens in the US honestly) ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Gender_pay_gap_statistics#Possible_causes_of_the_unadjusted_gender_pay_gap
@@apokos8871 With all due respect, I beg to differ. Women are paid precisely the same as men are paid for equal work. Women take home less wages because they work fewer hours than men do, or because more women, as a block, work at lower paid jobs than men, as a block, do. In some cases, such as prize money for all four tennis grand slams, women earn more than men earn for work that is shorter in time, much lesser in quality, and with many fewer opponents of quality resulting in poorer matches. As for men's issues being ignored, I note you have nothing to say. The idea that men are ignored because policies already benefit men is hilarious. Women are the dominant voting block in every liberal democracy worldwide. They live much longer than men live, guaranteeing them a majority of votes. Do you see women digging up roads in the rain, or cleaning out sewers, or driving lorries through the night? Why is that? Are women incapable of such work? Or are they in fact the privileged sex, protected from such work by men doing the shit jobs that send men to an early grave?
I died laughing at the end and the kitchen joke, thank you john Oliver
Well the pony ad may have not woman voters, but it really drew in the brony demographic
I love how you bring up real issues, and put a great satirical spin on it while addressing it! You do it the best, and you are a perfect political satirist! GO JOHN OLIVER!
I would also like to go on record and admit, as a man, that pony is absolutely adorable.
I think a "kitchen table meeting" just means an informal meeting. When I visit friends, we usually end up around the kitchen table-
"...she's a nice pony, not a mean pony!" LMFAO!
I have watched this so many times, and it still cracks me up every time.
This still leaves one question unanswered: did the pony solve any crimes?
It's about time someone called out Politicians for it's patronization of others. Hollywood needs to listen as well.
Anyone else remember the Red vs Blue skit "it's not pink it is lightish red" "oh there is a name for that you know what it is?" "What?" "PINK".
A person of culture and comedy right here. Grief I remember when RT wasn’t going under and it depresses me to think that a company that has made so much I love like RvB, is get destroyed with all the controversies and accusations of wrong doing.
Makes me wish for happier times, When Roses are Red, and Violets are Blue, and We’ll cruise down Blood Gulch Avenue. It’s I against I, and Me against you.
I laughed way harder than I should've.
Who cares if it's pink?
Pink has always been a feminine colour?
Now the stuff about the kitchen table, I understand that but the pink bus? Who cares?
Actually, traditionally baby boys used to wear pink, and girls blue. They were switched some decades ago.
No, pink hasn't always been feminine colour...
Drake Sigar Not sure about that. www.researchgate.net/publication/229437155_The_Twentieth_Century_Reversal_of_Pink-Blue_Gender_Coding_A_Scientific_Urban_Legend
No matter what , someone was going to be "offended"
In a comment section full of discussion, it's refreshing to see a comment that everyone can agree is wrong.
time for me to get back to clopping.
... Kill it. KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
*brohoof*
***** I second that!
***** He'res his first lesson: when you just said that here, about clopping, that was very good. Strive to make similar comments in the future similar to that one. Honestly, I think you have it nailed, but keep practicing anyway.
I can't get enough of the pony guy's face. Bahahaha!
OMG Australia is no longer a blocked country for these videos! Yay! Thank you sooo much
+Sara Candel
What about New Zealand? You know, "Australia's Australia".
What American politicians can teach politicians in the UK: you don't need pink vans to show you care about women - you need binders full of women.
Funnily enough, pink was, and in some cases still is, associated with masculinity in some cultures.
+Beowulf DW Main reason is that pink was seen as a shade of red, and red was synonymous with blood. Or royalty.
It was only changed when ww2 came around. The nazis categorized gay people with a pink badge. Just like they had Jewish people wear a yellow one. So the USA being as insecure about it's sexuality thought it was more of a feminine color. So then we started to dress baby girls instead of boys in pink. Girls were dressed in blue.
+Krwzprtt it wasnt just a shade of red, it was specifically a lighter shade of red for children, the same goes for a bright blue
+firudu Right. The association of girls with light blue came from Renaissance art of the Virgin Mary, who was always shown wearing a blue veil.
It's true
ruclips.net/video/s7u5igc-lFg/видео.html
'That thing was SICK.'
Brilliant episode as always!
I freakin love your show! Keep up the good work!
As a woman I must say... I wanna pet the pretty princess pony! 😍
ITS THE DETECTIVE PONY IN DISGUISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pretty pony! PONY PONY PONY!! *dying from laughter*
0:18, shame on you John Oliver; you hung the union jack upside down.
+Brock Toews
Yeah. The only time you are supposed to do that, is when you are criticizing Saint Patrick.
That’s the Union flag, it’s only Union Jack when it’s at sea
His voice in the end sounds like when he head a guest role in Rick and Morty.
his voice acting consists of turning the Britishness in his accent up to 11, and that’s it
Why does all of UK politics seem to take place on the sides of busses?
That clip of the pink van was in Stevenage right outside my college in north hertfordshire and everyone just laughed and said won't work.
That is Little Sebastián 😍😍😍
To be fair if you watch the Labour party conference from 2015 pretty much everything is pink.
ITS THE CRIME FIGHTING DETECTIVE PONY IN DISGUISE!!!!
I HAD THAT BARBIE BUS AHHH
this was probably the funniest clip of last week tonight I've ever seen.
Well Labour has won my vote.
There's nothing inherently wrong with a pink van being used to appeal to woman. Its the fact that they tried to deny it was pink, and the fact that they are playing not just on one stereotype, but on many stereotypes.
There's nothing wrong with having a conversation around the kitchen table either. Until you specifically imply that its the only place to have a discussion with woman, as they are not allowed at the boardroom table.
That pink Barbie bus with the jacuzzi was lit
I love the way he says pony
That Union Flag in the top left corner at the start is upside-down.
thank you
It must be a sign of distress!
On a show presented by a British man. I can't believe they got that wrong.
Not to be rude, but I've never understood... how does one tell how the flag is upside down? It's not like the picture showed where the hoist was supposed to be on the 1st and 4th cantons in a way that makes it overtly obvious... maybe they didn't have time to flip the photo and thought no one would notice?
The admiralty never gave a right way up for the Union Jack, traditionally it is flown one way up but not mandated. Like when people say it is only a Jack onbaord a naval vessel this is false the admiralty again approved the use of Jack rather than Flag to refer to the national flag in the early 1900s.
OK, the pony was supposed to be our big secret vote winner. Who leaked details of our new campaign to John Oliver?
- Labour Party, Central Office, Marketing Department
I love you John Oliver u r 2 damn funny n the way he said ponies I bust out laughing
That Pony was adorable
To all the haters crying out reverse discrimination! This is why this is messed up: It's supposed to be about politics, and yet this is a pink van where women can talk like they are in a kitchen. I bet guys would be equally annoyed about a baby blue van with video games being played on the side. "where men can talk about politics playing video games like they're at home in the basement, or at their mom's house, not around a board room table."
Actually, men wouldn't be outraged. They'd play the fucking games.
I'd be down with it. They would probably get my vote if they do that.
RUclips User Stereotyping, gender, and age discrimination, and ignoring the fact that the average age of gamers these days is late 20s early 30s depending on where you're looking? Whew, do you have a news letter I can subscribe to?
I'd play the games too, but that's the point. I'm a woman who doesn't like pink very much (I'd like a red bus please - but that would look too socialist for the Labour Party, I suspect!) And I like games and football and I can read a map....
How is this bus appealing to me? Trust me, it's not and that's the point. They are assuming ALL us women will be terribly excited by a pink bus. Maybe there's a nail bar in there (something else that would bore the pants off me)? And I've even heard that some guys like pink. Shocking, I know!
I do like ponies though. ;-)
RachelJurasic In their defense, they do need votes of women who like pink as well.
The should have painted the van 50 shades of grey.
You know, the pink van makes the media's fixation with Ed Miliband's Bacon Sandwich Moment look a little pathetic in hindsight.
They should have had CGI Vanity from the live-action Smurfs movies doing the Labour Party "pony commercial", because John Oliver's voice is so perfect for the character.
I love this show but there is one word in this video that I find really irritating: 'both'. You can't refer to 'both parties' in the UK, there's more than two parties! Conservatives and Labour do have the majority of the votes but the SNP, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party are all very serious voting options in the UK. Oh and there is also the Uk's answer to the Republican party (UKIP) but no one should ever consider them a serious voting option. We've had a far more democratic system than the US for a long time because of the variety in parties and though we're not quite as representative as European countries who don't have the first past the post system, lots of us are pretty proud of the extent to which British politics is starting to take more notice of parties like SNP and the Greens over the past year so it bugs me when people ignore this. Urrrgh rant over. John Green is awesome.
Lucia Willow ye but only three or four ever come close to having a large number of seats - labour conservative SNP and libdems
I would argue that UKIP, or their successor the Brexit party, who have many million more votes than the Greens, and have had multiple MEPs elected, are at least as 'serious' a political party as the Green Party, who have a solitary MP and some councillors in England. Compared to their party equivalents on the continent, the Green Party in the UK has been a crushing electoral failure. And before you raise first-past-the-post as the reason for that failure, you might glance over to the Irish Republic where PR-STV is used and the Irish Green Party are also a very minor player.
@@Norvik_-ug3ge You said that 1 month ago about the Brexit Party? Where have you been for the last year?!
@@Gerishnakov What is your point?
I didn't really think that the colour of the van was worth such a fuss
But by god, that kitchen comment, what the actual fuck were they thinking?
It was very funny. We laughed hard.
What...I've been watching for years and I've never seen this until it appeared on my feed today...
I think they are confusing woman with bronies and bronies with idiots. :P
Besides that... the thing is pink... and? Pink is a good colour and I'm pretty sure it was not made pink to say something like "woman ony like pink and pretty stuff" and all that. A bit overreacting in my opinion. That why this woman struggles at the interview, she has to defend something for that there is no real reason to defend.
Bingo! Finally, a non-PC whiner here.
Diana Peña
uuuh... sorry the (maybe dumb) question, but what is a non-PC whiner?
Someone who isn't politically correct and who doesn't whine about nonsense. I'm saying you're not PC or whiney.
Diana Peña
Oh okay, thanx. :-)
Oh my god, you're both idiots.
toongrowner1 if you watched the video, the whole reason why they were so sketchy about identifying the van as pink was because they were ashamed they'd used it purely to attract women. that'd be like trying to pander to guys with a hot wheels vans. it's demeaning. mildly, but still so.
secondly, don't listen to this 'diana' idiot. i keep running across "her" idiot comments and i can assure you a compliment from whoever that is is not a real compliment at all.
Diana Peña again, please grow a brain. i'm not even going to say i don't agree with you, it's just your *overwhelming* stupidity that bothers me. just...get off youtube. NO- wait, the internet. yes. go barricade yourself in a library and learn something. ANYTHING.
"We [women] can read as well as men or anyone else can." Transpositive vox populi FTW!
OMG, I love yarn! And, =gasp=, is that a pony?! Pony! Eeeeeee! :D
love the ponies!
Well...that _was_ a pretty pony, though :)
Wow, the things that pass for a scandal in the UK...
I know! Watching this as an American in 2020 I was like, "that's it? that's supposed to be a big deal?". Then I realized I'm just really jaded.
Hey 👋
*_Pony!_*
=D
=)
=/
Wait... _what_ were you talking about again?
xD
PONIES!
I couldn't stop laughing OMG
The bus is pink? Does it REALLY Matter?
No. It's traditionally a colour associated with women....
Fiona Payne Actually, I'm a woman. Is painting the bus pink a little eye rolling, yes. Sexist? If it is its not obvious to me.
+Estarile
Well, they're a political party, not a company or individual.
If Theresa May said; 'We need more male voters, so we're going to give the original white box to the females. And we'll paint the other votingbox blue with a car on it and we hope that'll help. Because men will be attracted by the toy-car and like it, so they'll maybe want to vote as well' then I'm sure that fully grown men wouldn't be happy about that either.
It has more to do, I think, with the belittling thought that females can be influenced by a colour like that.
'We need you to wear this mind-controll-device milady.' 'Oh certainly not.' Ít's in pink.' 'I want 5.'
We're not toddlers. They never suggest that men will vote for something because they give out lego's.
+Estarile - I may be a mysterious, Schröedinger-gendered internet entity, but I personally quite like the color pink for reasons unrelated to gender stereotypes. Fun fact, "pink is for girls" was an idea popularized by child clothing manufacturers after a period of gender-neutral white before which pink was, in fact, for boys. And blue was for girls. Before which, again, white gowns for all kids, which meant hand-me-downs and thus fewer sales. So we have some factory fatcat to thank for randomly ascribing certain colors to certain genders! Look it up if you like, folks! ^-^
@@Estarile years late but whether the bus is pink or not is only a small part of the problem with this. It's the whole "women belong in the kitchen not the boardroom" that's the sexist part - which is odd given that Harriet Harman was meant to be a pioneer in equality.
I think that the colour was chosen to attract attention and publicity but the incompetent Labour party leadership failed to direct the attention into a valid discussion and so it just became another nail in Milliband's coffin. Other gaffes include campaigning against zero hour contracts but hiring event staff on same contracts. Getting photographed whilst eating. And of course the Edstone, engraved with cryptic slogans which didn't take a genius to work out meant nothing of substance.
It is ironic that ponies now have a much more male centric target group
Little Sebastien!!!
my little partyyyyy....my little partyyyyy
Well done, ladies, let's shift focus away from the real issues and just concentrate on the colour of the bus. THAT'S the most important thing after all.
You can care about more than one thing at a time lol, and all that woman said in the clip was "it's patronising" - hardly protesting in the streets over it.
i mean, to be honest, any party whose platform includes "princess ponies" has my vote
I live in London and I didn't even hear of this XD
LOL!! That's a bit extreme.
PONY PONY PONY
how can you argue with this?
ruclips.net/video/2sWRXr2Yu9g/видео.htmlm43s for quick pony pony pony POOOOOOOONIES!!!!
This is gold!
Adrian Freund Touché
Adrian Freund Nah its cerise... or maybe magenta.
No, these are the dipshits that run Britain. Yeaaaah... :(
Daedra Sheogorath Technically they are the dipshits in opposition. The dipshits currently running Britain have the good sense not to even pretend to care about women, the poor, the disabled...
weejockpoopongmcplop What I meant was that they are a fairly large part of parliament, although yes, the one who currently runs the country is worse (David Cameron). Hard to believe we once had Winston Churchill running the country...
"It's a very pretty pony - isn't it, women?" lol
The union jack at the beginning was upside sdown
I think the issue isn't 100% about the color of the bus. It's the message they attached to it's purpose. I mean. Discussion around the kitchen table? Are they serious? I live in a fucking third world country and the last time a male politician was THAT patronizing to women he ended up dying in exile (not only because of the patronizing part of course, he was kind of evil)
Maybe in the UK this is patronizing, but in the US, women's groups often choose the color pink specifically because of its cultural association with femininity. So is this a case of a cultural difference, is it just offensive because Labor isnt an exclusively female party, or is this just finding offense in a political setting where it doesn't really exist?
Would sound about right. A lot of people, not just women are very uninterested in our politics. When you get patronising PR stunts like this to try and engage voters, it's no wonder why so many people think politicians are out of touch.
it's not really. one thing feminists have forgotten to say is that the Labour Party have been using this colour for a good few months at press conferences. we're being infected by the same asinine feminist debate the US is having.
i will say this, John Oliver did try to become famous in the UK by being a bit radical on political humour. he wasn't very good.
The main problem is not that it's pink. The main problem is that someone decided that they had to make it pink in order to "appeal to women", instead of... y'know, actually giving a shit about women. Because actually giving a shit about women is hard and stuff, it involves thought and effort and all that horrible 'work' crap. Painting a bus pink is easy.
GwresYnKernow Do you actually know that, or are you just making it up? Caring about women and campaigning in an election aren't mutually exclusive, and obviously a van used for that campaign has to be _some_ colour. There's no reason to assume they chose the colour pink in lieu of caring about women.
This is just another case of women need something to bitch about.
I would actually very much like to pet the pony, it's adorable
That bus looks more red than in the actual clip to me.