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Tories Target Whelan in New Facebook Campaign
The Conservatives have today launched a new online campaign using Facebook Connect.
The campaign, called Cash Gordon, is designed to raise awareness of the control Charlie Whelan’s Unite has on Gordon Brown’s Labour Party beyond the Westminster village.
The most innovative aspect of the initiative is its integration of “competitive campaigning.” Users will accrue “action points” for reading briefings on the issue, getting their friends involved, and for directly tweeting Charlie Whelan.
Commenting on the launch, Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles said:
“By making it easy for people to spread the word out to their non-political friends, this groundbreaking campaign is designed to bring a new wave of pressure on to Gordon Brown’s complete reliance on cash from Charlie Whelan and Unite.
“Facebook often gets forgotten about in Westminster. But with twelve million of us using it every day to connect to our friends and interests, we still see it as a key online battleground for peer-to-peer campaigning.
Once again the Conservatives push online show just how behind Labour is when it comes to leveraging online communities as part of wider campaigns.
Pickles added: “I’m proud that the Conservatives have consistently been leading the way in its use of the internet. In the last few weeks independent research has shown us way ahead in our use of email, and we’ve become the first party to launch apps on both the iPhone and the Blackberry.”
Gordon Brown’s Doing Sweet BA
The Conservatives have today released a new advert highlighting Gordon Brown’s failure to get his union paymasters to call off the British Airways strike.
Cameron more trusted by voters than Brown on key policies
A new ICM poll for tomorrow’s Sunday Telegraph show that David Cameron is trusted more than Gordon Brown on three key policies.
According to the pollsters when it comes to the economy, education and the NHS Cameron beats the PM by three per cent, seven per cent and two per cent respectively.
But the survey also showed support for the Conservatives slipping slightly when compared to last Sunday’s News of the World polll, with Tories on 38 per cent (-2) Labour on 31 per cent (no change) and the Lib Dems bringing up the rear with 21% (+3).
Tories launch new poster attacking Labour’s dangerous dog’s policy
The Conservatives have today launched a new poster campaign aimed at drawing attention to Labour’s plans for a dog tax, a tax which would penalise millions of law-abiding dog owners and do nothing to target irresponsible dog owners.
Last Tuesday the Government announced a consultation which included proposals to compel all dog owners to pay for compulsory third party insurance. Families would face “penalties” – fines or criminal sanctions – for breaching this requirement.
Unite’s stranglehold on Labour
If there were any doubts about how much power the trade unions wields over Gordon Brown’s Labour party, today the truth is becoming clear.
This morning The Sun splashed with some interesting statistics about Labour’s dependence on the unions.
While Labour is dependent on most unions for its continued survival, the Unite Union is rapidly emerging as the power behind Labour and its election campaign.
Not only are they bankrolling the party and undertaking its outsourced election campaign, but their political director, Charlie Whelan, is now back working as a key adviser to Gordon Brown.
Fox calls for Brown to be recalled by Chilcot
The Shadow Defence Secretary has written to Sir John Chilcot calling for him to recall Gordon Brown. His comments come after two former Chiefs of the Defence Staff and a former Chief of the General Staff called into question Brown’s evidence to the inquiry.
In his letter Liam Fox says following their comments at the weekend, “there is a strong case for you to recall Gordon Brown for further testimony in front of your inquiry after the upcoming General Election.”
Speaking to The Times on Saturday Admiral Lord Boyce, the Chief of the Defence Staff up to the start of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, said about Brown:
The 24 March will be Budget Day
Richard Willis, Conservative Councillor on Reading Borough Council, has the exclusive:
A very good source has told me that it is now known by some at Westminster that Alastair Darling’s Budget will be presented to Parliament on 24 March.
If this is the case we now know what the timetable leading into the General Election will be.
Since there has to be one week of debate following the Budget, the earliest Gordon Brown could go to the Palace would be 1 April. Though this is the earliest opportunity the PM would have, I don’t think this is when the election will be called as Brown will want to avoid the obvious connotation associated with doing on April Fools Day.
Fox: Brown’s Chilcot evidence “does not add up”
Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox was just released the following statement after following Gordon Brown’s appearence at the Chilcot inquiry, suggesting that there are significant contradictions between his evidence and that of others who have appeared before the Inquiry:
“Gordon Brown was a member of the inner circle, but true to form he didn’t want to take any responsibility for decisions which had negative consequences. He admitted that planning for the war was deficient, but with typical weasel words he tried to pin the blame on everyone else, above all the Americans. The Prime Minister put on a typically evasive performance, answering the questions he wanted to hear, rather than the questions which were put to him.
ask and you shall receive
Accompanying the CCHQ press release which gave David Cameron’s reaction to the finalisation of negotiations for the Prime Ministerial Debates was this little list:
19 May 2007
David Cameron first backed a TV debate between the party leaders:
‘I hope in the next few days Gordon Brown will make clear that once he’s actually the Labour leader and Prime Minister he’ll take part in proper TV debates that could really help bring politics to life.’ (BBC News Online, 19 May 2007)
