USEFUL TACTICS: 100 Days in 2016

Useful Tactics is an on going project by J C Swindells.

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Small Announcement

I’ve not written, made and published pictures for this project as diligently over the past few days.  Last week was always going to be tricky - a birthday in the middle of the week, anniversary of the death of a dear one the day after...  

Right now I’m quite tired and easily distracted.  I’ve given myself even more work to do.  In doing these posters I find myself becoming increasingly involved with a political party.  

I’m also planning a new series of work which will be exhibited in the next month or so.  It’s all hand stitched embroidery, a different process from this.  Inevitably there are cross overs.  I keep adding slogan-like phrases into the embroidery cartoons.  More about that elsewhere.

I should say that I’m not putting Useful Tactics down.  

Not yet.  

Instead I’m going to do a bit less, maybe three to five posts a week.  The pressure I started putting on myself with this project bore down on me to the point where it became a chore.  I want to keep it fresh and purposeful, the daily frequency was perhaps diluting the importance of this work.  It’s meant to jolt people into thinking about what’s going on around them.

I may well start up again with daily pictures after the exhibition.  Or else I’ll do some special months and so forth.  Advent Slogans spring to mind.

So then the next slogan I put up will be number 100.

Ach it might mean doing more than one.  Oh well.

Thank you for reading and continue to enjoy these pictures - which will continue to happen just a little less often.

Slogan 100a Slogan 100!

Slogan 100b Slogan 100!

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Slogan 99 The Forgetting Of History Is Allied With The Rewriting Of Her Story

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Slogan 98 Let’s Take This Outside

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Slogan 97 Birthday Schedule

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Slogan 96 Sometimes These Adverts...

Cos we’re now clearly only a whisker away from Christmas we need to be thinking about inspirational perfumes.

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Slogan 95 From Poverty To Prosperity, Cancelled

It’s tory conference time.  An event “From Poverty To Prosperity” was cancelled this week presumably due to lack of interest.

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Slogan 94 Here We Go Again

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Slogan 93 Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth

This might be a line from Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta but it’s still good and true.  And it follows on nicely from yesterday’s slogan about a politician accusing a comedian of slander when it was pointed out to the nation that he’d been a hypocrite.

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Slogan 92 Philip Davies MP Is A Filibustering “Toad-Faced Hypocrite”

This one is about that tory MP that got cross when Russell Howard exposed what a nasty piece of work he was on his “Good News” show.

Philip Davies said that this was a “deliberate lie” so I amended it because that’s what he actually did in order to prevent a law to introduce free hospital parking for carers.  He filibustered it so that it couldn’t be passed.

This article gives a bit more detail http://uk.businessinsider.com/tory-philip-davies-furious-bbc-russell-howard-toad-faced-hypocrite-2016-9

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Slogan 91 Aleppo

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Another little series

I missed a couple of days (again again) so here are three slogans together in a row.

Slogans 88, 89 and 90 X&I 1, 2 3

They are based on this quote my MP Clive said

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Slogan 87 Yay. Nay.

Bit unsubtle I know but it is Sunday night

Actually this would be interpreted completely different in the US.  Oh well.

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Slogan 86 Women Must Be At The Forefront. It Is Our New Mission.

Influenced by @labourpress‘ post http://press.labour.org.uk/post/150861554869/women-must-be-at-the-forefront-of-unifying-our about Angela Rayner’s excellent speech.

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Slogan 85 Don’t Shoot Him.  He Has No Weapon

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Slogan 84 Get Involved

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Slogan 83 Be A Part Of It 

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Slogan 82 Change It