Nick Curtis accompanies candidate Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, on a walk around Michael Gove's Bagshot constituency.
“I call it the honeypot or the flypaper approach,” says Patrick Brill, better known as the slogan artist Bob and Roberta Smith. He’s talking about his unique style of canvassing: Smith is standing against Tory MP Michael Gove in Surrey Heath at the general election, in protest at what he sees as the coalition’s denigration of the arts in education. Rather than knock on doors or hector from a soapbox, Smith has been staging artistic happenings in the constituency, hoping to attract the curious and then hit them with his serious political points.... Keep reading on The Guardian
“I call it the honeypot or the flypaper approach,” says Patrick Brill, better known as the slogan artist Bob and Roberta Smith. He’s talking about his unique style of canvassing: Smith is standing against Tory MP Michael Gove in Surrey Heath at the general election, in protest at what he sees as the coalition’s denigration of the arts in education. Rather than knock on doors or hector from a soapbox, Smith has been staging artistic happenings in the constituency, hoping to attract the curious and then hit them with his serious political points.... Keep reading on The Guardian