Archive for 'labourparty'
Flogging a dead horse. Again.
I feel obliged to note that LabourSpace, Labour's attempt to build a social network around policy discussion and campaigns, has relaunched. Again.
It's less appalling - downplaying, quite dramatically, the voting up and down of campaign ideas which has failed over a two year period now to spark into any kind of life. But I'm genuinely [...]
|
 |
Building Britain’s Future revisited
Spotted in Francis Maude's article on Comment Is Free yesterday (8 Feb 2010):
Then came the first instance of Labour breaching the impartiality of government's communications; we discovered that "Building Britain's Future", a brand conceived and promoted by the civil service, is used extensively on the Labour party's website.
From PR Week article dated 29 October 2009:
Whitehall [...]
|
 |
Labour’s cheap X-Factor dig
If the many series of Have I Got News For You have taught us anything, it's that if a joke is topical, it doesn't actually have to be funny.
With that in mind, here's Labour's latest online campaigning masterstroke. A badly Photoshopped picture of the two senior Opposition politicians, mocked up to look like John and [...]
|
Who says Labour people can’t do web?
A couple of (broadly) Labour-related online developments of note late last week.
One was the relaunch of LabourList, just in time for conference. Alex Smith has done great things editorially since taking control of the website in the wake of Drapergate, and entirely deserved the recognition of a high ranking in Iain Dale's annual poll of [...]
|
 |
Ed’s Pledge: when Ministers go it alone
One of the few international set-pieces between now and the next general election is the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in mid-December. And the UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change is trying to drum up support among the population for - er, well, let's not dwell on details. 'A deal' of [...]
|
 |
Should Labour share the NHS love?
I've been a fan of Graham Linehan since he was a writer on Irish music (etc) magazine Hot Press. On Wednesday, he stuck a message up on Twitter reacting angrily against 'rightwing wackjobs in the US lying about the NHS'. He starts using the hashtag #welovethenhs and asks celebrity chums to help spread the word. [...]
|
 |
Who exactly owns ‘Building Britain’s Future’?
If you take any interest whatsoever in stuff the government puts out, you'll have seen the Building Britain's Future logo a lot lately - it's even replaced the big 10 on the Number10 website's header. It's a cross-department brand intended to show the government has a positive programme of work in these negative times.
It's a risky [...]
|
|
Draper’s defiant departure
I must admit, I thought he'd gone already. But finally last night, the formal resignation of Derek Draper from LabourList. It's very revealing.
'Of course I regret ever receiving the infamous email [from Damian McBride],' he states in the opening paragraph - placing the blame squarely on the sender of that email, and casting himself as [...]
|
 |
The lady’s not for YouTube-ing? Says who?
With the long Bank Holiday weekend behind us, Sunday's Observer piece by Hazel Blears already seems like a distant memory. 'YouTube if you want to,' she wrote - somewhat provocatively, on the weekend we recall Margaret Thatcher's ascension to Downing Street. Quite a soundbite, especially considering her reflection in that same piece that: 'No government [...]
|
 |
Ed Miliband wants your email password
Today's big event on LabourList is Ed Miliband's piece on the launch of LabourSpace.com. He writes:
Today I am launching Labourspace.com - the Labour Party's campaign social networking site. I hope it will provide a unique home for organisations and people to host and promote their campaigns - and to bring their ideas to the attention [...]
|
 |