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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Tempest

Cunning stunts

If your head's spinning with the March 7 advice, the March 17 advice, resolutions 1441, 678 and 687, fear not – there's still room in this election yet for some good old-fashioned stunts.

For instance, cast your gaze skywards on Saturday – if you live in Labour's northern heartlands, that is – and you may catch sight of something that, no, isn't a bird, no, isn't a plane and, no, most certainly isn't Superman. In fact, it will be Charlie Kennedy's flying ad banner, trailing behind a rented plane, telling voters on the ground that the Lib Dems are "The Real Alternative".

Glamorous stuff from the Lib Dems, although a footnote to their announcement adds a more earth-bound note: "Times are approximate as access to airspace is dependent on air traffic control and delays are always possible."

Meanwhile, tomorrow morning at 10.30am at Westminster the Green party have come up with a novel stunt to illustrate the annoyingly abstract problem of global warming - an ice sculpture of Tony Blair, melting slowly into College Green. "It will also symbolise Mr Blair's 'melting credibility'" says a party spokesman.

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