The Financial Times reports today that: "Sam Roake, who worked as a Google “maximiser” writing copy for online adverts, exchanged last week the free smoothie drinks and cool T-shirts of Google’s London office for the Conservatives." Roake, a recent Oxford graduate, will report to Steve Hilton and his role will be to look at harnessing […]
BBC is reporting that ‘Tory bloggers may get a blog spot’ at this autumn’s party conference. There are lots of practical issues to be resolved but I can confirm that the story is true. I suggested the idea to Francis Maude a couple of weeks ago and he is very keen to make a ‘blogger’s […]
At the weekend Tony Blair called upon "the silent majority to act against animal rights protesters who hinder medical research". News reaches ConservativeHome today that David Cameron has signed Early Day Motion 2110 which has, according to Compassion in World Farming, "called for the overturning of new powers that would allow diseased poultry flocks to […]
On last week’s ToryDiary, ConservativeHome welcomed David Cameron’s decision to include ‘big media’ in his commitment to stand up to big business. George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, has today developed Mr Cameron’s commitment in a speech to the International Media and Communications Summit in Oxford. The speech is reported in this morning’s Times, Sun and […]
I met a senior figure in Downing Street yesterday whilst having coffee with a political journalist. He said some very nice things about ConservativeHome and wondered aloud why the Labour grassroots did not have their own similar website. The vast majority of Tory members are, of course, satisfied with David Cameron (as is ConservativeHome’s editorial […]
Tony Blair, in power for nine years today, should be worried when as formidable a pair as Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes get together. The Dale-Fawkes alliance has been formed to produce The Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze. They want help in cataloguing 100 episodes of Labour sleaze in what they describe as […]
Category seven in the Conservative Movement Awards concerns use of technology… …a good blog or podcast……a successful viral email campaign……a standout website……advanced search engine management… Tomorrow nominations will open for the ‘Contribution to Culture’ award.
As part of David Cameron’s ‘vote green, go blue‘ strategy CCHQ has invited green voters to create their ‘personal political broadcasts’ on how they would improve their local environments. Labour have chosen a mix of humour and negativity for their own local election broadcasts. At a website entitled davethechameleon.com you can watch Labour’s attempt to […]
ConservativeHome launched on Easter Monday 2005. That actually makes us a little older than one because Easter fell at the end of March last year but Easter Monday seems the most memorable anniversary to mark. The launch of the site was covered in The Times of 28th March 2005. Looking back on that article I […]
ConservativeHome.com has learnt that a group of well-funded Eurosceptic Tories are planning an orchestrated webroots campaign – that will be called The Campaign for Real Conservative Candidates – to unseat those MEPs who oppose David Cameron’s plans to leave the EPP. There is fury amongst some grassroots members that Roger Helmer has been expelled from […]
That’s the question Central Office wants anyone with a video phone or digital camera to answer. "Record a 30 second video clip answering the question: ‘How would you improve your local environment?" is the invitation on conservatives.com. These clips will be edited together to produce three ‘Personal Political Broadcasts’. These open sourced PPBs will replace […]
There is a useful piece in this morning’s New York Times about how the internet is introducing "sweeping change into US politics": "What the parties and the candidates are undergoing now is in many ways similar to what has happened in other sectors of the nation — including the music industry, newspapers and retailing — […]
The Tories have launched an online campaign/ petition to oppose Labour’s decision to scrap the Home Computing initiative – "a scheme that enabled employees to loan a home computer through their workplace, paying for it in monthly instalments, tax free". The Tories claim that "over 300,000 low income families benefited from the scheme, as well […]
It’s been a good week for Tory bloggers and the willingness of the Conservative Party to engage with us. ToryRadio has formally launched with an interview with Party Vice-Chairman Grant Shapps. Grant is responsible for e-campaigning so it was a good first interview for the man behind ToryRadio – the recently-married Jonathan Sheppard. Yesterday CCHQ […]
DavidMiliband.blogspot.com isn’t an internet address that exists yet but is available for someone wanting to start a spoof site. Do you remember the Alastair Campbell parody? Something like DavidMiliband.blogspot.com may soon be hosting David Miliband’s real weblog. According to The Sunday Times, the 40 year-old Labour minister – often rumoured to be the next Labour […]