Labour's attempts at political blogging

This is the frankly laughable attempt from the Labour Party to set up "independant" blogs. The right have been miles ahead in this field woth highly sucessful blogs such as Iain Dale's Diary, Conservative Home and ofcourse Guido Fawkes
The only really sucessful left wing blog is LabourList. Incidently never visit LabourList as Derek Draper actually counts the hits as they come in, I am reliably told!

Here a snippet of the Labour Party memo, sent on Novemember 21st 2008, on setting up "independant" blogs :


"We need to build a Labour version of Conservativehome – labourlist. This will feature regular contributors like Luke Akehurst, Ben Wegg-Prosser and Spencer Livermore, alongwith irregular “big-name” contributors such as (hopefully!) Neil Kinnock, David Blunkett and Philip Gould.
We need a high profile, well-written, media savvy blog to rival Iain Dales – he gets 70,000 readers a month, more than the Spectator, and is increasingly influential.
We also need to encourage and resource more people to blog and post in support of the party. This requires some bascic organisation of existing bloggers and the activation of old stalwarts like Simon Buckby, Ed Owen and David Clark."


To read the full version follow this link:

Draft New Media Presentation


Rob

Mandy tries to end it all

Lord Mandelson has told the BBC on The World This Weekend on Radio 4 that "This issue has been resolved and the public wants us to focus on their concerns"

Yea right.
The official Labour Party line now is "It has been sorted, Lets move on" one Labour insider told me.

One can only wait until Guido releases his new information on the ongoing SmearGate


Rob

The sunday times is reporting that Ed Balls runs his own smear operation within the Labour Party
An insider i spoke to described it as "an operation within an operation at Number 10 that answers directly to Balls"


Incidently Guido is hinting on his blog of some great new revealation for us.
Hopefully it will involve Gordon and his reign of terror will finally end

Rob

Draper Denies any connection to McBride

Dereck Draper, the man who runs the Labour Party funded left wing blog labourlist denied any connection to Damein McBride the man who set him up to smear various high profile conservative mps

Watch the last minute of this youtube video and send on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4moIHMvSnx0&feature=related