EU referendum: White 'thug' poster aimed at black voters - BBC News
Operation Black Vote has released what it calls a "hard-hitting" poster urging black and ethnic minority voters to take part in the EU referendum.
It features "an elderly Asian British woman being berated by an aggressive thug", according to Operation Black Vote's description.
The campaign says it is meant to show everyone has the same voting power.
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage described it as a "disgusting" example of "sectarian politics".
And he accused Operation Black Vote, who he said he had previously supported, of "trying to divide society". "I want to engage people in all communities to get involved in our democracy but I'm afraid this poster is a really big mistake," he said.
Magnus Djaba, chief executive of Saatchi and Saatchi London, the ad agency which created the poster, said: "This is a message about democracy, not a message about race. Whichever community you're from, it hits home."
It features "an elderly Asian British woman being berated by an aggressive thug", according to Operation Black Vote's description.
The campaign says it is meant to show everyone has the same voting power.
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage described it as a "disgusting" example of "sectarian politics".
And he accused Operation Black Vote, who he said he had previously supported, of "trying to divide society". "I want to engage people in all communities to get involved in our democracy but I'm afraid this poster is a really big mistake," he said.
Magnus Djaba, chief executive of Saatchi and Saatchi London, the ad agency which created the poster, said: "This is a message about democracy, not a message about race. Whichever community you're from, it hits home."
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