The Liberal Democrat disappearing act in Ipswich is getting comical.
On Ipswich Spy, there’s a fantastic little reply from a Liberal Democrat on their fact that the Times is only giving the Lib Dems a 1% chance of winning Ipswich:
The only reason that Mark Dyson has come in at 1% is because no-one knows who he is. Once they meet him they’ll know that he is a thoroughly decent chap who will represent this town better than the career politician spending all his time with transport and the little boy only doing it coz daddy did.
Now how would they meet him? I thought I’d try to find somewhere where he would be. So I went to the Liberal Democats national site where they had a nice little profile of him, good start. So they had a Twitter account for him, so I went there. Four posts at the time of writing. The last post was on 27 March and he was selected on March 4. No posts between then. Trying hard. I wonder what his links to Battersea and Tooting Lib Dems are?
So back to the Lib Dem national site and they mention a website for Mark Dyson with the catchy title votedyson, only problem is – it’s a hosted site.
So I went to the Ipswich Lib Dems, surely they’d have something? They did have something about choosing Mark Dyson, but no meet the candidate page, like the Tories and Labour have. Perhaps they’d have something in their events page, a chance to you know, meet, the candidate. Well I could go to a committee meeting of the Liberal Democrats on 21st April, but there’s no guarantee that Mark Dyson would be there – and I’d have to be a member of the Liberal Democrats – which is rather expensive to meet a former local TV reporter even if I will find out that he will represent Ipswich better than anyone else.
So one month after he’s been selected there’s no publicised events, a Twitter account with four posts, no contact information on the local party site and no candidate site. The only thing showing he’s alive is a couple of press releases and candidate information on the Ipswich Lib Democrats page.
The problem with saying that “once we meet” Mark Dyson is that it’s so very hard to meet him. With Ben Gummer the challenge is NOT meeting the blighter.
EDIT: I thought I’d give Mark Dyson a chance to tell us what he’d do for Bridge, so I’ve got an interview with him tomorrow.
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