Didn’t say they would be. I said the Lib Dems wouldn’t be remotely close to getting in.
I just don’t think they are going to turn around the 20k deficit in either Worthing seat.
(Not least because they aren’t in with a shout in either constituency)
Right so your thesis here is because Generation X in Worthing remember their grandparents liking Churchill, they are going to vote Lib Dem because Ed Davey releases a video decrying Churchill being replaced on the bank notes?
I think that’s bollocks.
The Lib Dems are a party of the Celtic regions as well as being a challenger to the tories in the south east (indeed, that’s where they retreated to for decades), and those regions have different conflicting memories of Churchill. But also, there are still no votes in this silliness, wherever.
But also, there’s a huge leap being made here isn’t there? “Our grandparent’s generation respected Churchill” (dependent on where you are from, that one. I can think of areas of the country it really doesn’t hold) doesn’t = “there are votes in being personally affronted he’s no longer on currency”
Entirely prepared to be proven wrong, but I suspect the vast vast vast majority of people couldn’t give a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys about this subject.
Ed Davey doing silly things for attention DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN was taken as a bit of fun because it was during the election campaign. Outside of that timeslot it does feel a tiny bit desperate and silly.
Honestly - no offence meant to Rob - think this is an over-reading, I suspect this much more likely to be read as a “haven’t you people got jobs to be doing” moment
Winston Churchill, replaced on your bank notes…by a BADGER???
Just typical of Churchill tbh
Oh yes
Yeah I think on the one hand there’s Third Party Bid For Attention, but on the other there’s Silly And Attention Grabbing But Not In A Good (Bungee Jumping Off A Cliff During The Campaign) Way
I’m old enough to remember every single one of them
Also: they change the people on the bank notes regularly? Don’t remember this fuss when they took off Darwin and Elgar
Winston Churchill dressed as a badger surely
In a time of universal deceit, replacing Churchill with badgers will bring forth monsters.
Badgers and hypnotits Aidan
It's our emotional support badgers on banknotes
It’s going to summon the furries unless we are very fortunate
I do kind of feel like British politics is having a bit of a breakdown today
I took my blind gran to vote on the new bank notes, and she very loudly said "which one to gas badgers?" and the whole place cheered.
What’s that, Winston Churchill Badger? They are taking you off the currency?
(This is a deep cut that requires memory of 2010s political memes)
When Winston Churchill was asked during the war whether he wanted to cut funding for badgers he refused - “what else are we fighting for?”
Jack should have expected he’d have his fair share of KNOCKERS
Moreover, BOUNCING BRISTOLS
How can he not remember saying this? His MAMMARY must be terrible.
Also MELONS
You’d have to be a complete BOOB to disagree.
Also, somehow, JUBBLIES.
I think it would be better to NIP this in the bud. Also, TITS.
I like to keep abreast of the latest political developments I SAID I like to keep ABREAST of is this thing even on
