Yes, they were pointing at things even in 1986
Courtesy of Anthony Fairclough, here is a Focus leaflet from 1986. It was for Dundonald Ward in Merton and contains a familiar style of photo at the bottom of page 2:
For other leaflets from the past, see my series How leaflets used to look.
Shocking. No bar chart & no horses. 🙂
Perhaps this was their opponent: https://www.markpack.org.uk/121/quite-simply-the-best-headline-in-a-labour-leaflet-ever/
Love it! cc Lucy Watt.
Intrigued by the comment “Good stern face” years ago we were told by a local journalist to always smile or at least not look stern, deaths you obviously do not smile!
The reason was people will forget the story but remember “that miserable looking git.”