Are Labour still in “send” mode?

Scottish Cheeselog

This is such typical socialism (sigh of exasperation).
"We will tell you what to think/do/say because only our way is correct;
we will spend your money on what we want, not what you want, because only what we want is right;
we don't need to know what you think because we know better than you about everything;
but we have to spend a lot of your money on telling you that we know best because you're too thick to understand."

Edward McLaughlin

The government's 'raft of measures'.

As in putting to sea in a desperate attempt?

Verity

"Rather than being something completely new, campaigning using new media is simply doing what we’ve always done in a new setting.” Kinda begs the question then why does this moonbat government need someone new in charge of it?

strapworld

With more slaughter of our troops in Afghanistan. One would have thought that this blog would have concentrated on the plight of our troops.

The utter incomptetence of the worst Defence Secretary in living memory and the need for a proper debate, led by The Prime Minister in a recalled Parliament.

If we are at war then place this country on war footing!

One would have hoped Cameron would adopt a far more critical stance against Brown and his cowboy cabinet. Demand to know the true facts of the injured, including the injuries. The compensation issue and an assurance that Brown will go to Nato and demand greater direct involvement from those continental countries who are reliant on the USA, Canada and ourselves.

Instead we are treated with this blog on a woman none of us can have heard of. Is this blog becoming a mouthpiece for Labour?

Please get your boot into Brown over Afghanistan.

Sunder Katwala

Stuck in send mode is not true of Kerry McCarthy's hyper-engaged and personal blogging and twittering
http://kerry-mccarthy.blogspot.com/

It does, though, perfectly describe the Speccy's own twitter account, ironically
http://twitter.com/The_Spectator

Ray

Gordon Brown - more tsars than a Romanov family portrait.

Grumpy Old Man

@Scottish Cheeselog. In socialist circles, this approach is known as "Progressive Liberalism".

mac

Wonder if she'll be taking tips from Labour's blogging maestro, Dapper Derek? That should ensure plenty of laughs - and smears, probably -for Guido to report.

Short the UK

In sheer anger I emailed John Reid today. I give him a right twittering. Why did our politicians allow "our boys" to get involved in Afghanistan?!The whole lot of them have copious amounts of blood on their hands. No doubt they'll be whimpering about "rations." The whole bloody lot of them make me sick to the pit of my stomach. Scum they are!!!!!!

Disorganised1

She actually refers to Draper in her interview ~ favourably.

Labour's raft in 140 characters ~ Lie, obfuscate, dismiss, ignore, smear, deny and #welovethenhs

JohnW

Shouldn't it be Tsarina?

After all only wild eyed feminists insist on the neutral nouns as being the same as the male one.

Red Rag

They should embrace new media like the Cameroons and use toe curling publicity stunts like the Peoples Millionaire who invites you into his average family house to show what a normal family they are, well if you count a multi-million pound pad being owned by a multi-millionaire who accepts free flights from billionaires as being what normal families do.

http://redrag1.blogspot.com/

William Blakes Ghost

I’m intrigued to see how the government distils its ‘raft of measures’ into a tweet of 140 characters.

We promise that we will continue to destroy Britain as successfully as we have done over the past 12 years.

That's only 106 characters. Easy really.....

Major Plonquer

'Spend, spend, spend.' is only 19 characters. They have enough left over for Dan Hannan to buy ad space to plug his book.

The Laughing Cavalier

Yoof does not twitter. Tweeting is for sad old middle-aged trendy wannabes. Worse than trendy Vicars, politicians who twitter as even less cool than Tony and Cliff with their guitars.

Nicholas

Kerry McCarthy's blog - My Blog = My Rules - is a clue to the "Demented Socialist in Government" mindset which has done so much to damage our society. She epitomises socialist wimmin. The slightly unhinged, self-satisfied and obtuse zealotry is apparent even in the photograph you selected for this piece.

Alfred T Mahan

If she's going to be a Tsarina, there's only one candidate for Rasputin - step forward, Mandelson!

Senor Brisky

I doubt NLab will be too adventurous in the social media field as it is exactly what it says: "social" media. It will invite feedback, rebukes, honesty, dissatisfaction and eventually annihilation.

I hope they do though.

Dorothy Wilson

This is so juvenile it would be laughable if not so serious. What with Purnell, Burnham, Milliband and now this silly woman Labour seems to be in danger of being taken over by a bunch of adolescents.

There there

Gordon Brown -more tsars than Zsa Zsa Gabor?

Frank P

Wish we had someone on this side of the pond who understands propaganda like Gerard Vanderleun - another brilliant collage with commentary:

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/art_within_america/half_the_jokers_on_you.php

Frank P

Ray (7.45pm)

Brilliant!

Ian Walker

Presumably she's "Twitter Tsar(ina)" because "Chief Twit" was already taken...

Dave B

Another CPS paper 'How the internet took Obama back to the 50s' agrees with Ms McCarthy's position that "campaigning using new media is simply doing what we’ve always done in a new setting."

anne allan

We're crap.
10 characters.

Hugh

Verity
Surely appointment as Prime Minister immediately and irreversibly confers substantial pension benefits.

Jeremy

"...not all politicians are the way we are characterised in some parts of the media."

I see. So politicians cannot stop stuffing taxpayers' money into their own pockets and it's all the fault of the media.

Talk about shooting the messenger rather than addressing the message.

Labour really are pathetic.

Rainer Unsinn

"I’m intrigued to see how the government distils its ‘raft of measures’ into a tweet of 140 characters. "

"We will continue to screw Britain and pocket as much tax-payer's cash as possible for as long as possible" (105 characters)

Carol

Im a Labour voter and embarrased by this rubbish

David Ossitt

Carol

"Im a Labour voter and embarrased by this rubbish"

Are you not more embarrased; to be a Labour voter?