and it didn't really work because everyone found it patronising. What we need is to get the Chancellor into a pub, enjoying a decent pint of beer with the proletariat. Like this:
On second thoughts, perhaps not. People don't seem to warm to George. Let's arrange a date in a pro-Tory brewery's tap bar so there aren't any inconvenient members of the public to cause any unpleasantness. Better still, let's hold it in a marginal constituency to give the cannon fodder a boost.
And lo! It came to pass that we lucky punters were blessed with a painfully awkward photograph of the Worst. Date. Ever.
What a shame that the symbolism doesn't quite work: usually it's the banks taking the piss out of him, but now he's managed to extract a pint from Banks's, the beer that tastes of…
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Reminds me of an E & S photo of Cameron unconvincingly pulling a pint of Cameron's Strongarm in a Banks's house while unsuccessfully fighting a Staffs seat. He was trying to justify a U-turn by the Major gov't. Having introduced legislation manadating a full pint, the Tories had backed off after pressure from some big brewers.
Unfortunately for Call-me-Dave, back in the days when the Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries were unashamed of their Black Country origins, they had invested a small fortune in advertising their then policy of serving a full pint every time. They must have loved Cameron.
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