Iain Dale points us towards Gaby Hinsliff’s scoop in The Observer that Derek Draper’s Labour List website will launch next week. Comparisons are being made to Conservative Home but looking at the contributors list which includes Peter Mandelson, Charlie Whelan, Philip Gould and Douglas Alexander it seems more like the Conservative Party’s Blue Blog. It is hard to imagine that these people are going to want to say things that could cause the Labour Party political problems. (To be fair, part of the problem is that the media and the blogs will jump on anything on the site that can be spun as an attack on Gordon Brown).
The genius of Conservative Home is that while it is run by someone who is sympathetic to the leadership it is independent and not afraid to criticise. Indeed, just today Tim Montgomerie lambasts, to my mind rightly, the leadership for the shallowness of its thinking
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