From , by Bachchoo Hedgie Soongone called a general election in Britain for July 4 and as the campaigns of the different parties began, he was featured in a widely circulated photograph with an illuminated sign above him saying “EXIT”. It wasn’t the only PR blunder by his team. They sent poor Hedgie to Belfast to the site where the was built.
While there, he was inevitably asked whether he was “captaining a sinking ship”. His team should have seen that coming. It’s self-evidently true to insist that the crew of the didn’t in any way construct the iceberg that it collided with.
The same, unfortunately, can’t be said of Hedgie’s campaign team. On June 5 and 6, the Allies and even their then enemy, Germany, held memorial ceremonies for D-Day, the crucial landing of the Allied forces in Normandy, France, which led to the victory of the American, British and French forces over Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The US and French Presidents attended together with Germany’s Chancellor.
Hedgie was sent in by his team for the first memorial ceremony but left early to be interviewed in Britain on TV for his election campaign. “Disrespectful Disaster” is my summary of the media’s reaction to this massive PR blunder. Hedgie apologised.
Will the patriotic Brits forgive and forget by July 4? His now arch-rival, Nigel Farage, who leads the right-wing Reform Party and is hoping the Tories are wiped out and he and Reform can replace them as the Opposition, was quick to claim t.