Conference season has begun in earnest and the Lib Dems are having a whale of a time in Brighton. After their best results in a century, the party is in a bullish mood, with Sir Ed Davey even rocking up yesterday on a jet ski. The next James Bond perhaps? And it’s in that spirit that the party has unveiled its latest merchandise, four months after their triumphs across the Blue Wall.
The unofficial mascot for the party is now a cuddly Liberal Democrat cat, with items selling out on the first day of the Brighton conference. It’s the latest anthropomorphism for a party leader after Paddy Ashdown’s parrot, Charles Kennedy’s duck and Nick Clegg’s teddy bear. One party worker says the ‘cat’ was chosen after footage of Sir Ed was shown on election night, looking like the cat who had got the cream.
Sadly Mr S missed out on claiming one of these mascots – but did manage to get a photo of one of the newly-minted badges depicting the animal.
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