Liberal Party's 'fake tradie' advertisement comes under fire on social media
Jessica Haynes
Posted 9 minutes agoMon 20 Jun 2016, 11:36am
Photo: The man featured on the Liberal Party's new campaign advertisement. (Liberal Party)
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A new Liberal Party advertisement that features a tradesman defending big banks and negative gearing has come under fire on social media.
The television advertisement, which went to air yesterday, features a man dressed in a high-visibility vest on a work site urging people to "stick with the current mob".
"Let me get this right," he says in the ad. "Mr Shorten wants to go to war with my bank, he wants to go to war with miners.
"Bill Shorten even wants to go to war with someone like me, who wants to get ahead with an investment property.
"Well, I'll tell you what happens when you get a war going on the economy — people like me lose their jobs.
"So I reckon we should just see it through and stick with the current mob for a while."
But it didn't take long before the Twittersphere erupted over the 30-second advertisement, with the hashtag #faketradie trending for most of Sunday night.
Dave R.
