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F***gate: How will the Tories deal with Flick Drummond’s campaign posters?

Flick Drummond’s campaign to win a Conservative seat in Portsmouth South has hit a bump in the road.

Word reaches Mr S that plans for a set of campaign posters for Flick had to be revised after the Conservatives realised that from a distance the poster could be misread as  -well, another word starting in F.

The issue appears to be with one particular set of Conservative election posters which has the candidate’s name all in upper case and white font.

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The most recent Tory campaign poster from the Rochester by-election

When you put Flick Drummond’s name in this format, as Mr S did in the mock-ups shown, there is a rather unfortunate effect if viewed from a distance…

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‘It’s bloody embarrassing but also bloody hilarious,’ a local Tory source says.

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