--- title: John Oliver Slams How UK Labour Party Woos Women Voters description: "You are trying to appeal to adult some voters the same way that Mattel attempts to appeal to 8-year-olds" canonical: https://time.com/3718491/john-oliver-labour-party-women/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-23T12:49:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:05.957Z og:title: Watch John Oliver Slam the Way Britain's Labour Party Woos Women og:description: "You are trying to appeal to adult some voters the same way that Mattel attempts to appeal to 8-year-olds" og:url: https://time.com/3718491/john-oliver-labour-party-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c27e1243e31a3b9/698780808e0601768745a719/john-oliver2.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: john oliver og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Oliver Slam the Way Britain's Labour Party Woos Women twitter:description: "You are trying to appeal to adult some voters the same way that Mattel attempts to appeal to 8-year-olds" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c27e1243e31a3b9/698780808e0601768745a719/john-oliver2.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch John Oliver Slam the Way Britain's Labour Party Woos Women by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 23, 2015 12:49 PM UTC  by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 23, 2015 12:49 PM UTC John Oliver is not impressed with how the Labour Party has decided to court women voters. On Sunday’s episode of _Last Week Tonight_, the HBO host slammed a pink van that the party has designated for female outreach—now dubbed “The Barbie Bus.” “Wow, it is a little insulting that you are trying to appeal to adult some voters the same way that Mattel attempts to appeal to 8-year-olds,” Oliver said. “And at least Barbie’s pink bus had the good sense to unfold into a sweet hot tub and party den combo. That thing was sick.” Watch the full segment below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3718491/john-oliver-labour-party-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3718491/john-oliver-labour-party-women/"},"headline":"Watch John Oliver Slam the Way Britain's Labour Party Woos Women","datePublished":"2015-02-23T12:49:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:05.957Z","description":"\"You are trying to appeal to adult some voters the same way that Mattel attempts to appeal to 8-year-olds\"","url":"https://time.com/3718491/john-oliver-labour-party-women/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Television","Comedy","viral","John Oliver"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c27e1243e31a3b9/698780808e0601768745a719/john-oliver2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c27e1243e31a3b9/698780808e0601768745a719/john-oliver2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"john oliver","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3718491/john-oliver-labour-party-women/","name":"Watch John Oliver Slam the Way Britain's Labour Party Woos Women"}}]}] ```