New poll - time to ditch the Lib Dem ‘bird of liberty’ logo?
Written by the founding editor on 26th March 2007 – 2:00 pmThe result of our last poll will be announced tomorrow, but you can now vote in the latest poll: Get the pigeon? Is it time to ditch Libby, the Lib Dem Bird of Liberty logo?
The voting box is over on the right-hand side of the page.
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26th March 2007 at 3:45 pm
Time for an ELEPHANT!
26th March 2007 at 3:53 pm
I don’t think an elephant is quiet right… how about a nice kitten?
26th March 2007 at 5:37 pm
Ah this old question. I quite like the bird, it is distinctive and it is recognisibly “ours”. However it has barely changed in 20-or-so years and surely some kind of update is required?
A branch from which the bird is flying? A more realistic bird design, dare I suggest a face? Something…dare I say again…”modern” ?
26th March 2007 at 5:53 pm
Perhaps we should just recolour it? green would be good.
26th March 2007 at 6:25 pm
Is there a reason for ditching the bird? Has anyone violently objected to it? Simply the fact that we’ve had it for a while doesn’t really seem to me to be a very good reason - in fact I think the opposite is true: the point of branding is to build up recognition over time, so chucking all that away doesn’t seem to me very wise! If we were deliberately trying to distance ourselves from the past (and there have been times in Lib Dem / Liberal history when that has seemed quite desirable…), but I don’t think that applies to us now. It does though explain why Dave has felt the need to replace the Thatcherite torch with a childish crayon squiggle, sorry, tree.
26th March 2007 at 8:15 pm
We are a caring and extremely cuddly cuddly party, but also tough, capable, and just a little bit wild.
How about a baby polar bear?
26th March 2007 at 10:03 pm
I’m for keeping it. When I canvass ethnic minorities who don’t always know the name of our candidate, I tell them ‘vote for the name next to the bird’ It works!
If it ain’t broke, why fix it?
26th March 2007 at 10:31 pm
well…………..the rose to some a symbol of love, to others a moribund plant covered with thorns and promising flowers that wilt and die……the oak, even more moribund, stuck in the mud, immovable and trapped in its own history……. the bird, beautiful, sings its own tune, can soar to the heights and is free……….hmmm, no contest really?!
26th March 2007 at 11:47 pm
I’ll vote for change when McDonalds ditch the golden arches or Rolls Royce ditch the RR symbol.
26th March 2007 at 11:54 pm
Pink Dog anyone?
26th March 2007 at 11:55 pm
I’ve been advocating a complete change of party brand for some years now, but the bird is the one thing that seems to me to really work.
27th March 2007 at 12:58 pm
This seems like a pretty one-sided poll. Do you just make this stuff up, Rob.
“What spanner can I find to throw into the works today? Urmm… Ah! Bird!!”
Seriously, though, I agree with Meral: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
27th March 2007 at 12:59 pm
Having said that, I think I might have just voted “Yes”. Oops! Buttermouse!
27th March 2007 at 1:02 pm
No, it goes through an extensive process of working groups, focus groups, policy reviews and then finally conference approves the polls I run.
How is running a poll which has given the bird a thumping endorsement throwing a spanner in the works? If you’ve got a better poll question for the future, please suggest it!
27th March 2007 at 1:53 pm
As the theme seems to be “keep the bird but modify it”, then maybe an extension of this poll should be “What improvements can be made to the existing bird emblem?”
27th March 2007 at 4:01 pm
We could have National versions of bof:
Thistle in it’s beak for Scotland;
Leek in it’s beak for Wales;
Olive branch in it’s beak for the Alliance Party and a burst football in it’s beak for England!
27th March 2007 at 6:05 pm
Keep the bird! But change it to brown - Mark Oaten once made this suggestion.
27th March 2007 at 6:07 pm
You could, of course, have a man with a shotgun aiming at a dog…
27th March 2007 at 10:43 pm
A great idea for a Tory Party logo - Reginald Maudling accepting a bribe from John Poulson. Or how about Boothby in flagrante with a rent boy supplied by the Krays?
28th March 2007 at 6:50 am
IainD has a point (no, wait, bare with me) about the national versions. I’d accept the need for English, Scottish, and Welsh versions, after all that would reflect the federal nature of the party.
I’d suggest a rose for England, though, IainD
28th March 2007 at 3:49 pm
We should use the old Tory freedom torch!
1st April 2007 at 6:06 pm
I regularly shop with a Liby-bird canvas bag acquired at a Conference in Blackpool a couple of years ago… and in the past two years, three people have come up to me and said “I recognise that logo on your bag - are you a Liberal Democrat?”
I confess the truth of course.
It’s appropriate to keep the bird, as after the 2009 general election when we enter a coalition with the Conservatives, our birdy can perch in a branch of the tory green tree.
7th April 2007 at 10:30 pm
We should have a bird flying to the right with a very small left wing for Tory areas and a bird flying to the left with a very small right wing for Labour areas. In Nationalist areas we are probably going to be shot down in flames anyway. But perhaps tartan and dragon scale versions could be developed?
11th April 2007 at 9:42 am
How about a rat
13th April 2007 at 10:15 pm
Manc Boy - I didn’t send you here to say “How about a rat?” although the Chorlton Fibber is trying a rat on his this time round. Some nonsense about it being a Labour rat … but we all know that if you’ve got rats you get in a cat like my killer Tilley and you don’t get in a silly bird called Fibby. Fibby on a Fence makes quite a good combination though.
13th April 2007 at 10:17 pm
Oh Chris, Chris, Chris - you’ve been hawking that pic all over the place for days now. It’s good Photoshop, congratulations, it’s just a lame gag which is why no-one, from any party, is laughing!
14th April 2007 at 1:22 pm
Rob, it’s not even a good Photoshop.
14th April 2007 at 2:57 pm
I was being generous