Whilst watching tonight's The First Election Debate tonight on ITV I got thinking, and talking with Adam Jarvis, about what could have been had David Davis not launched one of the most ill-advised campaigns ever. The alliterative MP who shares the name of The Kinks' guitarist (sort of) decided to invite large-breasted women to wander around the Conservative Party conference with "It's DD for me" t-shirts. This controversial promotional decision was probably not the reason that he failed to beat David Cameron, but it surely failed to garner more votes from Tory members. Since his defeat he has been banging the drum about the erosion of civil liberties. The other Dave Davies is infinitely cooler, partially because of the extra 'e' in his surname and his shortening of David to Dave. He was voted 88th in Rolling Stone's greatest guitarist of all time. They described his guitar work as "the dynamo that drove The Kinks". I enjoy a good sing-along to Lola on the way to school once in a while. I started reading his autobiography once, but some of the stories of his rock 'n' roll excess made me feel a little queasy and I gave up on it.
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