Archive for January, 2010

MPs Gear Up to Campaign on Twitter … Oh No They Don’t

‘MPs turn to Twitter to talk to voters’ shouts the headline on the Daily Telegraph site today.  If the august, if conservative (small ‘c’) columns of the Telegraph are saying it then it must be so.  Well it aint.   Yes there are lots of MPs on Twitter now, if you call just over a hundred out of [ READ MORE ]

Ianucci’s Tough Tweets for Tony Blair

Barrister Philippe Sands has cooked up a series of questions for ex-PM Tony Blair as he prepares to face the Chilcot Enquiry into the war on Iraq.  They were published Guardian.co.uk yesterday.  Creator of ‘The Thick of It’ and “hard man of political satire” Armando Iannucci has shrink wrapped them and is using twitter, where he has over [ READ MORE ]

Eye Spy with my Little MP

Eye Spy MP is a twitter account that grasses up MPs.  It is a crowd sourced project that let’s anyone tweet anonumously via @eyespymp (that’s right it does read like eyes pymp) whenever they chance up on MP doing whatever they are doing.  It’s anonymous because you email your MP spots to tweet@EyeSpy.MP with the details in the subject line.  This [ READ MORE ]

MyDavidCameron.Com Overtakes Democrats and the GOP

According to Martin Bryant writing in The Next Web, the DIY David Cameron site covered in this parish a few days ago briefly overtook both the US Republican and Democrat web sites in terms of traffic, making it possibly the most popular political site in the world, for a brief time.  Read the full story [ READ MORE ]

DIY David Election Poster

It has become a feature of UK general elections for parties to demonize (remember Tony Blair and his Demon Eyes or Hague in a Thatcher wig?) the leaders of the opposing parties in poster campaigns.  Now we can all have a go.  One place where you can get started is the ‘Make Your Own David’ application [ READ MORE ]

Top Flight Backing for Hewitt Hoon Bid

  • January 6th, 2010
  • Posted in Labour

Former cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon are urging Labour MPs to hold a secret ballot on Gordon Brown’s leadership in advance of the 2010 general election slated for this May.  They have written to all Labour MPs saying the issue must be resolved. The text of the message states ”As we move towards a General Election it remains the [ READ MORE ]

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