Or of course "If you want a Gippo for a neighbour", which goes down well with some people.

There seem some indications that all this is backfiring, and driving people reluctantly back to voting for the Labour party, even though it is still led by Blair. That Guardian letter from Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson I quoted in another thread may have been a straw in the wind:

Hard choice
Tuesday March 22, 2005
The Guardian

Until a week ago our electoral choice was straightforward: a pro-war Labour MP who has toed the party line, an anti-war Lib Dem, along with a laughable Tory. For Labour members like us, the choice was simple. Vote Lib Dem.

Then Michael Howard reached into the gutter and played the Gypsy/Traveller card. The current demonising of an entire community is so shocking we are going to have to vote for a party led by a man we believe to be the slipperiest, most profoundly disliked politician to hold the office of prime minister in our lifetime. A PM whose time is up and whose representative here needs to be voted out. But sadly not by us. Not this time.
Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson
Robin Hood's Bay, N Yorks