One Campaign Ads Banned! | Articles | the bombsite

Whilst England basks in the euphoria of winning The Ashes, OffCom, the national body responsible for regulating British broadcasting, have quietly announced that the adverts for The One Campaign have been banned. Why? Because it’s a political campaign of course, why else?

Now I don’t blame OffCom for this. They have laws and regulations that have to be adhered to. I do suspect though that the Government is very happy with this outcome. It should relieve the pressure on them to get something done about the poverty-stricken areas of the World and allow them to back-slide from the policies announced at the G8 summit.

The One Campaign is political in the sense that their aims require that governments around the planet change their attitude and policies towards world-wide poverty however, The One Campaign is not a political body/party in the sense that their goals concern charity, sympathy and the recognition that this is everybody’s problem and not restricted just to those countries affected by poverty.

I think this is a classic case where the old phrase the law is an ass comes into it’s own. I believe that the UK Government should intervene and tell OffCom to just let this one go.