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Ed Davey's stunts were derided in certain quarters but each one was linked to a Lib Dem policy, especially about water quality, and it seems to have cut through.
I was saying exactly this to someone the other day. It's striking how many of his stunts took place in/on/next-to water and that was very deliberately linked to how much the Lib Dems were talking locally about water quality and sewage, which their polling had already identified as a resonant issue in their target seats some time ago.
Davey's campaign was so impressive - the Lib Dems usually struggle at the 'air war' during an election, but he found exactly the strategy to garner media attention in a way that coordinated perfectly with the ground campaign Lib Dem activists were running in their target seats - effectively the electoral version of a blitzkrieg. It's going to be the textbook model campaign for how a third party should fight elections under FPTP in future - literally the best third party campaign we've seen in over a century.
Yes, in hindsight, he played an absolute blinder. While Sunak and Starmer were having snooze-fest debates, he was messing around on the water getting all the headlines.