Coffee shots: The best (silliest) manifesto photos

If voters pick up party manifestos, chances are they might not make it all the way through the 80-150 page tomes the people pitching for government have produced. But they might leaf through and look at some of the bullet points, graphics and the pictures. Here are some of the best (or perhaps the oddest) manifesto pictures from the three main parties:

This woman is just so thrilled to be buying some sweets, which were only made thanks to the Tories’ long-term economic plan.

This kid is definitely hiding something behind his back, and it’s not the detail of George Osborne’s £12bn welfare cuts.

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This student is hoping the Tory photographer will leave her alone to understand the clotting cascade in peace.

Similarly this builder is thinking that he would find it easier to deal with the reinforced concrete if he didn’t have to stare at a lens in a quizzical manner.

This woman is alarmed by what she’s just seen in a supermarket freezer.

This gardener is not actually sweeping up leaves but is instead throwing them all over his back in a spiritual ritual to make him at one with nature, which is a red line priority for the Lib Dems.

This is that gardener above and his friends having realised their goal to be at one with nature.

This woman is finding the intense reactions of her colleagues to the Lib Dem manifesto a tad amusing.

This farmer is stretching his arms for the first time after being liberated from red tape by the Tories.

This family were destined for a holiday brochure on camping in Cornwall.

Sadly the Labour manifesto is full of quite nice and normal portraits of people smiling, but that was only because they were threatened with action with this spanner if they didn’t look happy.

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