Caron Lindsay

The cuteness of the lambs….

By | Mon 6th April 2015 - 3:49 pm

Everyone’s arguing today about who is responsible for the raising of the tax threshold, a policy the Conservatives railed against at every opportunity but are now trying to claim as their own. This has been around as a Liberal/Liberal Democrat idea for a very long time. Malcolm Bruce told me last year that he had introduced it as a policy way back in 1997. Its current incarnation came to fruition in 2009 thanks to Liberal Democrat member and (then) Women Liberal Democrats Executive member Lizzie Jewkes who persuaded the leadership to adopt it as policy. It was passed at Conference in 2009.

But the Mirror has this afternoon revealed another instance where the Tories have snaffled our idea and passed it off as their own in the most dastardly fashion. Remember these pictures of David Cameron down some lamb snuggling over the weekend? Well, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie had done that four days before.

Your day will not be complete if you don’t go and look at the Mirror article, complete with very cute pictures of lambs. It is my absolute favourite thing of the election so far, overtaking Sky News’ I Swear mashup.

Update: We hear that the Welsh Liberal Democrats have form in the lamb department, too. Except this time, Jane Dodds, our candidate for Mongtomery, ups the ante by cuddling two lambs:

Jane Dodds and two lambs

You could call it a double lamby…

Any more pictures of cute lambs with Liberal Democrats will be gratefully received and published..

 

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

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2 Comments

  • JohnTilley 6th Apr '15 - 4:15pm

    The sight of David Cameron kissing a lamb as a promotional stunt forThe Conservatives made me reach for the sick bag.

    Still, it could have been worse. At least it wasn’t Norman Lamb. 🙂

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