The Labour party today unveiled their new campaign '#TalkToJoan'. A new initiative that, they say, aims to identify key issues that will form the core of the party’s policy platform.
A statement on the Labour party's website says that the Tánaiste Joan Burton will be hosting a series of meetings for party members ahead of the General Election.
Some people took the opportunity to tweet questions of real importance to the Labour leader:
Joan do you like nutty m&m 's #TalkToJoan
— Diarmuid Hehir (@Ihatebankers) June 3, 2015
#TalkToJoan how much is a iPhone 6 is the camera good on it #JoanMustGo
— luke murphy (@lukemurphy1978) June 3, 2015
#TalkToJoan Is Labour's latest policy to show a bit of leg in the hope of votes? pic.twitter.com/lOinb8XGZz
— Gareth Soye (@GarethSoye) June 3, 2015
What is the point of Nose Hair? its really annoying #TalkToJoan
— Keith Gregg (@keithmiketom) June 3, 2015
Despite the good intentions, so far the reaction on Twitter hasn't been overly positive:
presumeLiveline will be inundated with confused callers wanting to #talktojoan
— Alan Kinsella (@electionlit) June 3, 2015
Why do political parties insist on launching cringey PR campaigns that are inevitably going to degenerate into farce? #talktojoan
— Colette Browne (@colettebrowne) June 3, 2015
The answer to every query to the #TalkToJoan hashtag will be.. "Why aren't you at work, you scrounger.. Haven't you heard of JOBBRIDGE! "
— Jim Sheridan (@Jim_Sheridan) June 2, 2015
It didn't take long for #TalkToJoan to descend into #HarangueJoan. Who'da thunk?
— Philip Nolan (@philipnolan1) June 3, 2015
Terrible Ideas Of Our Time Asbestos, Guinness Light, Windows 8, #talktojoan
— John Maguire (@maguiresmovies) June 3, 2015
