2 posts tagged “election”

.. that's a gain from the Liberal Democrats.

Rastus Odinga Odinga has taken Wolverhampton Southwest, that's Enoch Powell's old constituency -- an important gain there for Darkie Power.

Arthur Negus has held Bristols -- that's not a result, that's just a piece of gossip.

Sir Alec Douglas Home has taken Oldham for the Stone Dead party.

... And so it's beginning to look like a Silly landslide, and with the prospect of five more years' Silly government facing us.

n.b. When somebody said about the pink pussycat on irc.. I believed it.. d'oh.. posted here in the hope that somebody else might fall for it.

Good god people!

Think outside the box - do you really think the nation will notice if the lib dems blow an extra few hundred thousand splurging out on billboards, leaflets, focus groups and all that tosh.

Seriously - only a few decades ago parties got parlimentary majorities with a campaigning budget that is dwarved even by modern parties combined under the "others" label like UKIP or BNP, let alone the Liberal Democrats - maybe it's time to look at alternatives to throwing cash at council elections and by-elections.

Political advertising is probably the least effective advertising around, the public filter it out, ignore or avoid it, the only way to get the publics attention is to make the headlines yourself - that means taking control of the agenda, not following the other parties like sheep and listening less to the increasingly irrelevent westminster echo chamber.

How about, some really good initiatives ?

How about some radical policies that will make the public and media sit up and take notice.

How about using the resources we have to be smarter ?

How about making Party Political Reform hit the headlines by setting our own standards above and beyond the legal requirements of the house of commons, lords or EP.

Martin Bell got elected by being above-board, rather than being "Just Another MP", the only way a third party will ever make a serious dent in our parliamentary duopoly is to stand out as different, not acting like, talking like, and behaving like the other parties.