Two posters for British film SKET, have today been banned from London Underground stations across the capital by Transport for London.
One of the posters depicts Prime Minister David Cameron being beaten by a girl gang and being asked  if he still wanted to “hug a hoodie”. Â
The other poster features the four female leading characters caught on CCTV above images of the prime minister, his deputy Nick Clegg, former PM Gordon Brown and London mayor Boris Johnson, with the strap line: “Do you know these people? Wanted in connection with having broken Britain.”
Advertisements for the film, a retribution thriller set in London focusing on violence committed against and by teenage females, have also been banned from publication in popular commuter newspaper Metro.
Â
Street crime and violence have been major issues over the years, particularly in London, but the problems really came to the fore during the August riots that escalated across the UK, prompting the prime minister to say that he wanted to fix “broken Britain”.
|
SKET, directed by Nirpal Bhogal and staring Ashley Walters and Lily Loveless, is released in Cinemas today ( see the trailer here ).
This is not the first time that Transport for London has taken the decision to ban a controversial advert from running on the Underground. In 2006, posters for the US TV series Sleeper Cell, featuring the slogan “America’s latest hero is a Muslim straight out of jail”, were banned from the London Underground because the word ‘Muslim’ was deemed to have the potential to offend. |
|
