From King Cnut to the Ed Stone: A history of political stunts
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved |
| 0:05.5 | photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course. |
| 0:11.8 | Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college? |
| 0:13.0 | I loved going to college. |
| 0:14.0 | It's good you can retrain and do something. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer. |
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| 0:28.0 | Search Phoenix Group living longer. Hello and welcome back to the bunker. Daily news and politics explainers to keep you sane throughout the election and beyond. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm Andrew Harrison. Today, the Ed Stone, driving a J.C.B with Get Brexit done on it through a |
| 0:50.9 | polystyrene wall marked gridlock. |
| 0:53.2 | Nicholas Sturgeon checking the teeth of a poorly dinosaur called dentosaurus |
| 0:58.4 | during a visit to a dental care centre in the Scottish lowlands. |
| 1:01.7 | The political stunt is a hardy perennial in elections. |
| 1:05.0 | Few campaigns go by without the parties trying some sort of eye-catching |
| 1:09.0 | visual gag or self-deprecating joke |
| 1:11.0 | in the hope that it will lodge in the brains of Vossers |
| 1:13.9 | who would probably rather be watching strictly and they tend to make the country cringe |
| 1:17.5 | itself into another dimension. The difference this time around is that Lib Dem leader |
| 1:21.6 | Ed Davy is shouldering the national burden all by himself, |
| 1:24.7 | crap falling into Windermere, heading down a water slide with Sky Correspondent Matthew Thompson, |
| 1:29.5 | flipping burgers for D-Day, screaming his way down the roller coaster at Thought Park, you name it, he's |
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