An arbitrary poll reported by ITV News reveals:
Conservative party leader Cameron topped the Worst Dressed list, but also made fifth place in the Best Dressed one.
It’s the open shirt thing, isn’t it? (Via.)
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Once again, quite unnecessary embarrassment has been caused for the LibDems by dubious campaign advice, this time suggesting rounding up children on council estates and getting them to deliver election leaflets.
Anyone with a bit of political nous could surely spot that that was asking to be picked up and made into a “Pied Piper” story. But despite what’s implied in the BBC story, this isn’t a centrally-produced party guide – it’s published by the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors, and therefore no more a Cowley Street publication than an LDYS drugs campaign flyer. Nonetheless, it has the capacity to look bad by association and the party should distance itself from it.
The biggest crime in this case is that it’s actually an appalling piece of advice. Rounding up strangers on an estate and trusting them to deliver your carefully written, neatly printed and fastidiously bundled leaflets is lunacy.
Update: James notes that this guide was published 12 years ago. So why not point that out rather than trying to defend it?
Inspired by the success of Doctor Who, the BBC are launching an adventure series featuring his sidekick, the Boy Wonder: Robin Who.
In other news, if someone who creates a crossword is a setter, is the crossword itself a settee?
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BBC News: Pet Shop Boys protest at ID cards:
A spokesman for the Pet Shop Boys told the Evening Standard: “Neil has always been a Labour Party supporter, but at the last election he voted Liberal Democrat because he is completely against the idea of ID cards.”
(This story’s about a month old, but I missed it originally.)
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