Item 71 - An Election Poster We Won't Be Seeing

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Michael Heseltine is seen dropping a fish labelled 'Red Menace' into a bin outside the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's (CND) office. He has a peg on his nose, and CND staff are covering their noses. There is a large slogan: 'When Conservatives rubbish things, it makes scents'.

Context: the CND claimed that there was an ongoing smear campaign against their organisation by the government, including to frame them as dangerous communists. They and Labour MPs compared it to the Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1950s.