Liberal Democrat Bar Charts

For those looking for light relief on this Tuesday morning, these examples of Liberal Democrat bar charts may be worth looking at.  This sort of thing is practised by the Liberal Democrats at every election.  Indeed, I suspect they have a standard handbook, which includes standard steps you always have to use, no matter what:

1) Always make personal attacks on your opponent(s). Truth is unimportant. Imply everyone else is on the fiddle in some way.
2) Always imply that your opponent(s) come from some place other than the constituency, and that you are local.  This is very much a Sarah Teather favourite.  She tries this smear even when her opponents actually live in the constituency.  Ken Livingstone once argued that Sarah Teather could be described as the most local candidate of all, since she had previously described herself as "local" in elections in Barnet, Brighton and Islington.
3) Always claim that the election is a two horse race, and that the gap is closing in the last week of the campaign.  This can be done even if the Liberal Democrats are widely recognised not to have any hope of winning.

As well as these generic, I have listed some more Brent specific examples here.