The SNP's 'luxury motorhome' and the long history of political campaign 'battle buses'
The £110,000 Niesmann+Bischoff campervan wasfor the SNP Holyrood election campaign in 2021 as Covid-19 swept across Scotland, but then sat outside Peter Murrell’s mother’s house after lockdown restrictions were eased.
But from Vote Leave's EU referendum bus to the Jo Swinson-emblazoned Liberal Democrat coach, this is far from the first time a political party has spent funds on a political campaigning bus.Before the battle bus arrived in the late 1970s, politicians travelled by car followed by a gaggle of journalists as they toured around the country.party leader and Prime Minister from 1945-1951 – who campaigned around the country with his wife in a 12-year-old family car.
“All parties use them, they are an important part of campaigns,” said Professor Justin Fisher, of Brunel University London.Boris Johnson’s blue Tory bus was emblazoned with a Union flag and predictably declared: “Get Brexit Done.
“Leading figures in the party, sometimes the leader, need to travel in a reasonable level of comfort. It also often includes the press, so you need facilities for them too,” said Fisher, who is an expert in political campaigning and finance.
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