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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

From King Cnut to the Ed Stone: A history of political stunts

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

There have been plenty of memorable election stunts lately – with Ed Davey stealing the show so far in this campaign. But how far back does the history of these sorts of actions go? And do they work? Andrew Harrison is joined by Seth Thévoz to look at the history of political stunts and their impact on the polls. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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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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