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New Party praises ASA for investigating 'sickening' carbon advert

The New Party has welcomed confirmation from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA)  that it plans to investigate the Party's official complaint into the Government's television advertisement on lowering CO₂.

Slammed by New Party National Spokesperson Richard Vass, as the worst possible example of state-funded propaganda when it was released, the one-minute advert from the Department of Energy and Climate Change caused the Party to lodge an official complaint on 13 October, and call for the 'Orwellian' advertisement's immediate withdrawal.

Vass said today that it was encouraging to see that the ASA were prepared to hold an investigation despite the vociferous criticism often directed against anyone daring to challenge the Government's views on climate change. We need science not scaremongering, he said. After all, there is no proven link between CO₂ and Global Warming.

"It is a matter of democracy and reason over the politics of fear. With its war-like imagery reminiscent of old World War Two propaganda and cold war broadcast rhetoric, the advertisement relies on scaring children rather than appealing to the reason of adults to be effective.

"I'm encouraged to see that the ASA has stuck by what is right and chosen to investigate. There is an underlying whiff of McCarthyism surrounding the whole carbon campaign that has prevented proper debate. We hope the ASA will agree with us that this sickening advert needs to be withdrawn."