Cheesy Ed

'Get the bungee harness ready': Lib Dem leader Davey vows to keep doing cheesy stunts

Ed Davey vowed to keep carrying out cheesy stunts to get attention today, despite signs that voters are tiring of his antics.

He quoted Frank Sinatra today as he vowed to lead the Liberal Democrats 'my way'.

It came in his keynote speech closing a party conference that has seen him march at the head of a brass band, play cricket on Bournemouth beach and conduct a BBC interview while on a zip wire.

Apart from the stunts as a measure of his shallowness, Cheesy Ed is a curiously uninteresting politician. He seems to have no aptitude for being taken seriously on anything, as if the stunts are all he has. Even his rhetoric comes over as a series of rhetorical stunts designed to attract attention rather than serious consideration.

It may even be that Cheesy Ed doing it 'my way' isn't what Lib Dems want from their leader. His position isn't likely to be as precarious as Starmer's, but even Lib Dems could wake up one day.