{"id":2471,"date":"2013-08-09T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2013-08-09T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T14:05:52","slug":"home-offices-racist-van-investigated-by-asa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Home Office&#8217;s racist van investigated by ASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/probe-governments-home-poster-van-093752129.html\">Yahoo News reports<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\">Advertising Standards Authority<\/a> (ASA) is investigating the recent Home Office poster van campaign targeting immigrants and dubbed the &#8216;racist van&#8217; due to the crass insensitivity that is a hallmark of the Whitehall PR machine nowadays (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2429\" title=\"Spot the difference\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/racistvan.jpg\" alt=\"image of billboard van showing Home Office&#039;s anti-immigration message\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/racistvan.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/racistvan-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ASA has so far received 60 complaints expressing concerns that the advertisements were &#8220;reminiscent of slogans used by racist groups to attack immigrants in the past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The racist van was driven around the London boroughs of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barnet\">Barnet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hounslow\">Hounslow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Borough_of_Barking_and_Dagenham\">Barking &amp; Dagenham<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Borough_of_Ealing\">Ealing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Borough_of_Brent\">Brent<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Borough_of_Redbridge\">Redbridge<\/a> &#8211; all areas with a high percentage of ethnic minority residents &#8211; as part of a &pound;10,000 Home Office pilot scheme, which ended at the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>As a counterpart to the Home Office&#8217;s mobile billboard, human rights and civil liberties organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk\">Liberty<\/a> drove its own &#8216;anti-racist van&#8217; around the streets of the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/liberty_van-600x449.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty&#039;s anti-racist van\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/liberty_van-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/liberty_van-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/liberty_van.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News reports that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is investigating the recent Home Office poster van campaign targeting immigrants and dubbed the &#8216;racist van&#8217; due to the crass insensitivity that is a hallmark of the Whitehall PR machine nowadays (posts passim). The ASA has so far received 60 complaints expressing concerns that the advertisements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,15],"tags":[16,22,20],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}