The starting gun on the election race is fired now
are gathered in Bournemouth, where their leader Sir Ed Davey was gamely and inexplicably tipped out of a kayak and into the sea for the benefit of the cameras and the voting public.
Their conference, however, suggests that this prospect is still underappreciated. Considering the possibility that there could be scores of Lib Dem MPs in a year’s time, or sooner, there was surprisingly limited media attention or corporate engagement with the event – a missed opportunity for both the press, the electorate and indeed any lobbyists looking to get to know the future occupants of the green benches, in my view.
That’s an extraordinary thing in itself: trade unions who are so keen on battering a government that they dislike, and undermining its electoral prospects, that they will shut down a national service, disrupting the whole country, in order to do political damage to their opponents.
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