Frau Merkel, the CDU (Christian Democrat) chancellor has developed a brilliant campaign strategy. It's called : "Bore The Living Crap Out of Everyone" or "Merkelism". Forget the pollsters, the thinktanks, the researchers, the number-crunchers, the psephologists and all the voodoo-science bullshit associated with elections in Britain (and the US). Front and centre from Angie is the policy of numbing the minds of electorate into passivity with tedious debate, clever people will say. And yet, and yet, the German spirit will not easily be crushed - as the campaign poster below demonstrates. The East German chemist and hausfrau may or may not have commissioned it. It may or may not be the work of an over-zealous CDU campaign intern, keen to impress their leader. But I salute the sheer elan of this attempt to show a softer, more accessible Angela. Someone at least half the population can admire.
WARNING. Do not try this in the UK. Any attempt to reproduce this message with Yvette Cooper or, for pity's sake, Theresa May, may lead to a national mental breakdown.
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