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18. That would be this one

It's William Hague's face photoshopped (not terribly well) onto Maggie Thatcher's hairdo, or vice versa. Pretty tame by the standards of UK party political posters through the ages, TBH.

I can't see much of a parallel between that and Cameron's inflammatory tweet. The implication was that Hague, Tory Party leader at the time, despite attempts to portray him as a baseball cap-wearing beer-swilling dweeb o' the people, was the inheritor of Thatcher's mantle. Considering he first made a public splash as a 16-year-old giving a speech to the Tory Party Conference where he wowed the assembled, including Thatcher, with the incandescent wisdom that "half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time", and was too right-wing for the likes of Michael Heseltine to consider serving under him if he became prime minister, it doesn't seem an unreasonable tack.

Funnily enough, the photoshopped poster bears an uncanny resemblance to Heseltine.