Breaking Point (UKIP poster)

UKIP Breaking Point poster

Breaking Point was a poster released on 16 June 2016, during the final week of campaigning before the Brexit referendum. The poster was released by Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party and depicted a photograph of Syrian refugees near the Croatia-Slovenia border in 2015, with the caption "breaking point" and "the EU has failed us all".

Part of a £100,000 campaign from Family Advertising Ltd, an advertising firm based in Edinburgh, The poster was denounced by left- and right-wing politicians,[1] and several media outlets highlighted the poster's similarity to propaganda in Nazi Germany.[2] The same photograph was later used by the Hungarian Fidesz party in another poster during the build up to the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election.

  1. ^ Aiello, Giorgia (1 April 2023). "Visual communication has always been political". Journal of Visual Political Communication. 10 (1): 7–16. doi:10.1386/jvpc_00021_1. hdl:11585/935694. ISSN 2633-3732.
  2. ^ Houtum, Henk Van; Bueno Lacy, Rodrigo (19 June 2017). "The political extreme as the new normal: the cases of Brexit, the French state of emergency and Dutch Islamophobia". Fennia. 195 (1): 85. doi:10.11143/fennia.64568. hdl:2066/183044. ISSN 1798-5617.

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