What next for Ed Davey, Action Man?
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GarveyLives
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Sir Ed Davey's appearance on the Liberal Democrats' election broadcast yesterday evening appeared pretty serious:Not sure Ed is taking this election seriously.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Certainly pretty serious to have been a member of the government that slashed services for carers, cut disability payments and introduced systems of institutional cruelty.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
don't mention the post office, basil...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Tories wouldn’t dare have their photos taken standing next to dinosaurs
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
I've no time for the Lib Dems and I barely know who Ed Davey is, but their campaign has been excellent so far.
It's not a campaign to try and beat impossible odds to take power, it's a means of getting attention as the third in a 2 horse race.
Let Labour and the Tories lie themselves to death doing the serious stuff -meanwhile here's Ed Davey playing mini-golf, falling off a paddleboard, shooting himself out of a cannon; and now you've torn yourself away from the Labour/Tory shitshow here's a serious point about Davey as a carer to his son with disabilities, how government responsibility has been abdicated, and how things need to change.
I'm not voting for the twats, but it is a good campaign nevertheless.
It's not a campaign to try and beat impossible odds to take power, it's a means of getting attention as the third in a 2 horse race.
Let Labour and the Tories lie themselves to death doing the serious stuff -meanwhile here's Ed Davey playing mini-golf, falling off a paddleboard, shooting himself out of a cannon; and now you've torn yourself away from the Labour/Tory shitshow here's a serious point about Davey as a carer to his son with disabilities, how government responsibility has been abdicated, and how things need to change.
I'm not voting for the twats, but it is a good campaign nevertheless.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
There’s nothing like the fun side of austerity imo
I think it's an embarrassment tbh. Reminds of all the utterly shit Boris Johnson photo opps.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
this is nothing like the fun side of austerity
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Taking the election seriously has led to Sunak having a nervous breakdown.Not sure Ed is taking this election seriously.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Voters can be selective with what they remember and what they don't. The word "Iraq" can cause some Labour MPs to flinch, and sigh, and wonder if they'll ever be set free from people's opposition to that war. Libdems will be haunted by the coalition years for, well, years
However we're living in a short-term memory era and to many voters, setting up the context of the past to explain why they shouldn't vote the same way in the future is too long a conversation to have at the door while leafleting.
Davey has done pretty well in allowing the election to become all about Con/Lab/Ref while attracting attention the only way small parties know how. I'm certain that 'shy' Libdems will happily return to voting for them on the back of seeing this campaign distance itself from the main event.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Or they are going to introduce free entry to theme parks.
gosub
~#
That pay all back if you broke threshold needs kicking into touch.. Starmer should be being pressed for a commitment on that. MPs with first hand experience of doing care is a good thing....but that does need sorting
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Davey La Jaune?
has he been taking lessons in hypnotising dogs?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Cruelty-but-cuddly
Latest Yougov poll put Lib Dems up 4points to 15%, 2pts behind Reform and 3pts behind Tories so this gambit of his might be working.
They could also benefit from being the rejoin EU party as Labour have ruled that out. If they campaign smart on that they could eat into a fair bit of Labour's support.
They could also benefit from being the rejoin EU party as Labour have ruled that out. If they campaign smart on that they could eat into a fair bit of Labour's support.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
If the EU gets anymore right wing Reform will be the rejoin EU party.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
He's getting ideas for a libdem theme park.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Does there have to be any strategy at all? He knows they're not going to win many seats and if they do it won't be down to a mostly unknown leader, so he's just having a ball.
This probably helps his... image isn't quite the right word for someone who no one would recognise, but it's the closest we've got, so let's go with image - because it makes him seem more relatable and provides more shareable photos than standing at a podium, but that's most likely a total accident.
What would be hilarious would be if there was another coalition, he was the deputy, the leader of the main party resigned, and Ed Davy was the interrim PM (which I think could happen, technically at least) who ended up making world leaders hula-hoop and do the macarena with him. Even though Putin would probably start WWIII from the humiliation of being thrown off a bucking bronco at Chessington World of Adventures.
ska invita
back on the other side
The libdem campaign is incredible, it's like a situationist art happening intervention. I find it offensive considering the state of the country and the world, but from a pure farce/spectacle point of view it's hard to feel hate to someone hoolahooping and outright rejecting the wear a hi viz and pretend to care routine
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I hope this is the case, but I suspect it’s some carefully crafted strategy to get him in the news. He knows he won’t get newsnight invitations like Nigel Fromage..and the media never add the byline..”leader of the party that fucked the country by going into a coalition with the Tories”
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