Archive for February, 2010

I Don’t Want To Be Rude Mr Farage but….

  • February 26th, 2010
  • Posted in UKIP

A theme is emerging in the run up to the poll and it’s not so much user generated content as user-generated poster advertising.  The airbrushed for change David Cameron mash-ups have been the most prominent but this week Nigel Farage of UKIP gets the grassroots advertising rollover treatment. Idontwanttoberude.com is home to the poster above a [ READ MORE ]

Angry Gordon’s Avatar – the Taiwanese Movie

Apple Daily, a newspaper and website based in both Hong Kong and Taiwan has used computer graphics to recreate the alleged bully boy tactics of the prime minister. The video is gaining traction on news sites in the UK and through social networks. Whilst hardly in the James Cameron league when it comes to CGI the [ READ MORE ]

Is the On-Line Electoral Campaigning Moving Up a Gear?

In an article in The Times today Alastair Campbell claims that the social web has altered the power balance in political campaigning. “The internet and, in particular, social networking have changed the terms of the relationship between the parties, the media and the public, taking at least some of the power to influence away from parties [ READ MORE ]

Loony Slogan ‘A Future Fun Fair for All”

In the hours following the Labour Party Rally in Coventry where  the Prime Minister unveiled Labour’s vision for the country under the slogan “A Future Fair For All” the twitterverse was awash with the rumour that the Official Monster Raving Loony party had adopted a very similar slogan “A Future Fun Fair For All’. The [ READ MORE ]

Purnell Quits Ahead of Election

The surprise expressed on-line at the sudden departure of ex Cabinet minister James Purnell will be short-lived.  In his statement he said himself  “I have spent all my working life in or about Westminster. And while this has been a huge privilege, I’ve realised I don’t want to have spent all my life in frontline politics.  [ READ MORE ]

Date of the 2010 Election – Britain’s Worst Kept Secret

  We all know that the UK General Election will be on May 6th.  Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth gave the game away on Sky News in January when he said: “I think the British public will wake up and rue the day if they wind up with a Conservative government in charge of this country after [ READ MORE ]

“Buff” Hoon to Stand Down

  • February 11th, 2010
  • Posted in Labour

The architect of the most recent botched coup attempt on Gordon Brown’s leadership has announced that he is to stand down at the general election.  It is unlikely any future labour leader would want someone in their top team who had demonstrated the level of ineptitude shown by ‘Buff’ as he is increasingly known in web [ READ MORE ]

‘Miss Me Yet?’ Bush Poster Asks

This political poster is gaining traction particularly on conservative blogs in the US.  It features a grinning George W. Bush and was initially discredited as a photoshopped hoax, but it’s really out there on the Interstate highway 35 in Minnesota. Mary McNamara, the manager at Schubert & Hoey Outdoor Advertising, the company which leases out the billboard, said  “The ad [ READ MORE ]

How Long Before We Vote Online?

Brown has fuelled the debate on electoral reform by proposing the Aussie style alternative vote (AV) system for parliamentary elections.  If it happens this may be the last time we put a cross on a ballot paper as the AV system is a preference vote that requires numbers in the boxes.  But should we be [ READ MORE ]

Why Sarah Brown’s Million Mums Won’t Save Gordon

In the run up to the US presidential election Obama was building a fan base on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, using his infamous blackberry to tweet from the trail.  Not so for the major contenders in the UK 2010 election. Cameron has stated his belief that “too many twits make a twat” (although airbrushed campaign [ READ MORE ]

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