There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader…
Here’s Lib Dem defence minister Nick Harvey ensuring British troops are tooled-up. What do you think might be being said or thought by or about him?
And the winner of our last caption comp is…
Some fantastic entries for our most recent caption competition, Clegg at Leveson “Through the glasses darkly” Edition.
The winner, according to The Voice’s judging panel of one, was this one by FedUpofCeredigion:
“Latest Lib Dem polling figures? I need my magnifying lenses to see them.”
with an honourable mention for this one by Steven Haynes:
“Hey my reading glasses! I can finally see what’s in the coalition agreement now!”
Got a photo of a prominent Lib Dem you think would work well for a future caption competition? Then please email us at [email protected].
* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.
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“So, you’re quite sure this will keep the student protesters away from my house?”
Are you sure that this is the only way to get out of the Coalition agreement …?
Handling a man’s massive weapon? I can see why you didn’t allow Liam Fox to do this.
Are you really saying it’s NOT a weapon of mass desctruction?
I don’t know if this will frighten the enemy, but by God, it frightens me!
“………so basically, you’re saying we could take out our dear leader, from half a mile, and put it down to collateral damage?. Hmmm,.. I’ll need to put it to the LDPP, of course, but,………”
“Does it produce much… RRRRECOIL???” *slaps thigh*
You should have visited last week Sir, we used to have soldiers to fire the rifles then…..
“So you will be letting me have two dozen of these to take to the North West Lib Dem dinner next month?”
Don’t worry all our snipers are politically correct
Not a quote but a bit of info – the current sniping world distance record is held by a soldier in the British Household Cavalry using that model of rifle – he shot two taliban in helmand from the back of his column while the front was under fire at a distance of nearly 2.5km http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper#Longest_recorded_sniper_kills
“soldier, I hope this rifle is made from ethically reared materials?”
“sir, yes sir, the raf uses only the finest high density polenta board!”
it’s a gun Minister!
NH ‘will it cook your beans at the same time?’
“So, you say, our defence budget used to be able to buy our troops THESE things?”
“A British made product of world-class standard based on a design by a civilian marksman of Olympic status? Fantastic.”
Defence minister weighs up the latest thinking in election campaigning.
NH: ‘Amazing… and you say all of the Olympic drivers have one of these? ‘
No Sir, don’t press that biiiiiit! Whoops!
Does it shoot organic bullets?
So, is this what we’re equipping the GB archery team with?
“They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; ”
From “Naming of Parts” by Henry Reed