Liberal Democrat councillor Tim Prater seems quite happy to have got the council to install a new bin. If you can pull your eyes away from his shirt for a moment, you will see a fine use of the traditional single finger point. Sometimes nothing fancy is needed, such the clear extension of one finger.
As one would expect of Josh Babarinde, he has a stylish pointing style – the double-handed, double-point, palms face up, brow professionally furrowed:
On a recent campaign visit to Birmingham, I went pointing with Radley Russell:
Welcome to proper campaigning for Andrea Kidd from Leighton Buzzard, who has upgraded herself from leaflet deliver via canvasser to town council by-election candidate with a full embrace of local community campaigning. Which involves pointing at things, of course.
Purists may argue it’s more of a double palm wave than a true point, but we’ve got a modern approach to defining pointing on this site. And sometimes a pothole is so exasperating that using both hands is justified.
Bryony Davies used to run the office for Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams. She hasn’t lost her touch since:
