Lib Dems should ditch Ed Davey’s stunts and talk policy, survey finds | Liberal Democrat conference
According to a study presented at the annual conference of the party, the liberal democrats should leave their stunts and offer a more serious policy program if they want to get support between voters.
At the meeting in Bournemouth, the vote by the more common Thinktank, which was shown to Lib Dem members, claimed that in the last election, although it had the scope of going beyond a total of 72 deputies in the last election, it remained uncertain about what many voters representing attractive by the party.
Particularly a remarkable finding said that more than 60% of voters thought that the party leader Ed Davey’s stunts were not suitable when they faced too much difficulties during the general election and that only 21% was a good way to draw attention.
Even among the existing Lib Dem voters, this emotion was strong, 47% of them were worried that Davey’s image -friendly escape series took the party to look less serious.
During Davey’s election campaign, photography opportunities, including a bungee jumping and a water shift and going to Rollercoaster, helped the party break and attributed policy announcements.
Although they were scaled, Davey at this year’s conference came to the place at the beginning of a walking group, at the opening rally on Saturday, the former leader Tim Farron, Birlik Jack and St George’s cross of the cross of the cross, and the audience was given the small union flags given to fluctuating.
LIB Dem officials argue that the party has suitable costly policies that expand beyond focusing on important issues such as NHS and maintenance and waterway pollution.
Prior to the conference, Davey identified proposals on asylum as a way to cleanse the long accumulated work of unprocessed cases and accumulate refugees for years for years.
In his speech on Sunday, Daisy Cooper, the party’s leader and treasury spokesman, made a plan to target large banks with a decrease tax on snow with the money used for attempts to interrupt people’s energy bills.
Speaking at the Fringe event, where more joint work was presented, Lib DEMS’s Foreign Spokesman Calum Miller rejected that the continuous use of stunts has prevented the party.
“We all know that one of the reasons why the strategy of doing something visually attractive is adopted by the party is that we will scope in the media,” he said.
“And those who see the photos of ED and ED yesterday, and even the photos of a Union Jacks Sea at the rally will be handled intensively in the media.”
In particular, other MPs and officials have a similar opinion. “Everything is about balance,” he said. “With Stunts, even if a paper makes a negative coverage area, ED comes with a big picture of happy and empathic.”
In joint research based on polls in August and September, if LIB DEMS is stuck with nearly 15% support, a total of 30% of voters is open to support the party.
When many of the new seats won by Lib DEMS last year were considered defendable, even an election could see that the party won more than 100 seats.
In less positive news for Davey, voters would rely on liberal democrats as part of the coalition government, and many remained uncertain about what Lib DEMS represented.
However, the party, probably, has been partly partly increasing support among young voters due to its strong position in Gaza. Davey boycotted last week with the lack of efforts to push Israel with Donald Trump to push peace.
Lib DEMS was more violent than labor to condemn the language on the far -right walk in London last weekend.
Speaking to journalists after his speech, Cooper said that he had recently opposed the flag hanging sign from the lamp poles and other street furniture: iz If you want to exhibit your patriotism, you can put a flag in your home, window. Put on a public property can send a different message. ”
