Moonshot

During the locked-down summer of 2020 I found a copy of The Conservative Manifesto 2010 outside a recycling bin in Westminster. Around the same time I ordered an 1895 edition of Edward Lear’s The Nonsense Poems. This sequence works through each page of both books to explores the similarity of rhymes.

Each title is taken from the headings and subheadings of the manifesto, titled Invitation to Join The Government of Britain, and all drawings and sketches are cut ups of Lear’s originals.

  • The Invitation (iii)
  • The Contents (iv – v)
  • Glasgow (x)
  • Foreword
  • Get The Economy Moving (3)
  • Benchmarks For Britain (5)
  • Ensure Macroeconomic Stability (7)
  • Create a More Balanced Economy (11)
  • Encourage Saving and Investment (12)
  • Get Britain Working Again (15)
  • Reduce Welfare Dependency (15)
  • Reduce Welfare Dependency (16)
  • Boost Small Business (16)
  • Encourage Enterprise (19)
  • Reduce Regulation (20)
  • Create a Modern Transport Network (23)
  • Spread Prosperity (24)
  • Productivity 1997-2007 (27)
  • Accountability (27)
  • Size of Peak Bank Bailout (28)
  • Build a Greener Economy (31)
  • Build the Big Society (37)
  • Public Service Reform (37)