How (not to) use social media to publicise your Political Party
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This is just classic. Some bright spark at Labour HQ thought it would be a good idea to start a Flickr group [^] for photos recording Labour's achievements since 1997. Unfortunately they didn't anticipate that photographers would instead post scans of the "Stop and Search" cards they'd been given by the police when stopped for (you guessed it) taking photographs. :doh: Oops. So they've now thrown their toys out of the pram, locked discussions on the group and are busy deleting images which don't suit their message. Of course, the response of the photographers has been to start their own group[^] and upload the banned images there instead. If it goes viral (as these things often do) that's one big backfire by the politicos. Epic fail, guys. Really. I mean, WTF were they thinking? (and just as few days after the photographers protest in Trafalgar Square over misuse of stop and search powers[^]. The timing just beggars belief). Of course, this could easily be just about any political party (or commercial organisation( rather than just Labour. I doubt many politicos of whatever flavour fully appreciate what social media have really done for mass communications, after all. But it really is so much fun watching them feck it all up so badly. :laugh: Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph[^]
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a t
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This is just classic. Some bright spark at Labour HQ thought it would be a good idea to start a Flickr group [^] for photos recording Labour's achievements since 1997. Unfortunately they didn't anticipate that photographers would instead post scans of the "Stop and Search" cards they'd been given by the police when stopped for (you guessed it) taking photographs. :doh: Oops. So they've now thrown their toys out of the pram, locked discussions on the group and are busy deleting images which don't suit their message. Of course, the response of the photographers has been to start their own group[^] and upload the banned images there instead. If it goes viral (as these things often do) that's one big backfire by the politicos. Epic fail, guys. Really. I mean, WTF were they thinking? (and just as few days after the photographers protest in Trafalgar Square over misuse of stop and search powers[^]. The timing just beggars belief). Of course, this could easily be just about any political party (or commercial organisation( rather than just Labour. I doubt many politicos of whatever flavour fully appreciate what social media have really done for mass communications, after all. But it really is so much fun watching them feck it all up so badly. :laugh: Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph[^]
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a t
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streissand_effect[^] Yep, they're screwed.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
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This is just classic. Some bright spark at Labour HQ thought it would be a good idea to start a Flickr group [^] for photos recording Labour's achievements since 1997. Unfortunately they didn't anticipate that photographers would instead post scans of the "Stop and Search" cards they'd been given by the police when stopped for (you guessed it) taking photographs. :doh: Oops. So they've now thrown their toys out of the pram, locked discussions on the group and are busy deleting images which don't suit their message. Of course, the response of the photographers has been to start their own group[^] and upload the banned images there instead. If it goes viral (as these things often do) that's one big backfire by the politicos. Epic fail, guys. Really. I mean, WTF were they thinking? (and just as few days after the photographers protest in Trafalgar Square over misuse of stop and search powers[^]. The timing just beggars belief). Of course, this could easily be just about any political party (or commercial organisation( rather than just Labour. I doubt many politicos of whatever flavour fully appreciate what social media have really done for mass communications, after all. But it really is so much fun watching them feck it all up so badly. :laugh: Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph[^]
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a t
Oooh AJ! You bad!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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Oooh AJ! You bad!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
LOL I didn't start it! But it is rather funny. :)
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streissand_effect[^] Yep, they're screwed.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
They almost certainly are. :laugh:
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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This is just classic. Some bright spark at Labour HQ thought it would be a good idea to start a Flickr group [^] for photos recording Labour's achievements since 1997. Unfortunately they didn't anticipate that photographers would instead post scans of the "Stop and Search" cards they'd been given by the police when stopped for (you guessed it) taking photographs. :doh: Oops. So they've now thrown their toys out of the pram, locked discussions on the group and are busy deleting images which don't suit their message. Of course, the response of the photographers has been to start their own group[^] and upload the banned images there instead. If it goes viral (as these things often do) that's one big backfire by the politicos. Epic fail, guys. Really. I mean, WTF were they thinking? (and just as few days after the photographers protest in Trafalgar Square over misuse of stop and search powers[^]. The timing just beggars belief). Of course, this could easily be just about any political party (or commercial organisation( rather than just Labour. I doubt many politicos of whatever flavour fully appreciate what social media have really done for mass communications, after all. But it really is so much fun watching them feck it all up so badly. :laugh: Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph[^]
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a t
In all probability, the Conservatives will be swept to power in the next general elections. What I'm curious about is, will they get such a boost they completely dominate Parliament to the extent of pushing through whatever legislation they want? That would be a Bad Thing. Isn't this just what happened in the 90s, when the Tories screwed up so badly people thought, "Anybody but them" and Blair rode to power? Also, where do the Lib Dems stand on the political spectrum? Are they farther left than Labour, or are they centrist (between Labour and Conservatives), or am I looking at Britain through American-tinted everything-is-two-dimensional, liberal-or-conservative, black-or-white, good-or-evil glasses?
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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In all probability, the Conservatives will be swept to power in the next general elections. What I'm curious about is, will they get such a boost they completely dominate Parliament to the extent of pushing through whatever legislation they want? That would be a Bad Thing. Isn't this just what happened in the 90s, when the Tories screwed up so badly people thought, "Anybody but them" and Blair rode to power? Also, where do the Lib Dems stand on the political spectrum? Are they farther left than Labour, or are they centrist (between Labour and Conservatives), or am I looking at Britain through American-tinted everything-is-two-dimensional, liberal-or-conservative, black-or-white, good-or-evil glasses?
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
In all probability, the Conservatives will be swept to power in the next general elections. What I'm curious about is, will they get such a boost they completely dominate Parliament to the extent of pushing through whatever legislation they want? That would be a Bad Thing.
I'm not so sure; they aren't as far ahead in the polls as you might expect. I rather suspect that a) the public have longer memories than the politicians give them credit for and remember the last time the Tories had unhindered control of parliament and b) there is a significant minority of people in this country who would never trust them anyway. The converse is also largely true of course.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Isn't this just what happened in the 90s, when the Tories screwed up so badly people thought, "Anybody but them" and Blair rode to power?
If the incoming government has a landslide majority I would say yes. I've a theory that incoming UK governments mostly do no evil in their first term, do some evil (but not enough to make us want to have the other lot back) in their second term and royally p**s everyone off in their third term! We then let the other lot back in until they screw it up. We never get the Government we need, but we probably do get the Government we deserve. :doh:
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Also, where do the Lib Dems stand on the political spectrum? Are they farther left than Labour, or are they centrist (between Labour and Conservatives), or am I looking at Britain through American-tinted everything-is-two-dimensional, liberal-or-conservative, black-or-white, good-or-evil glasses?
Pre Blair the LiDems were a centrist party broadly between the other two. Now that Labour has lurched so far to the right they are probably more left wing than Labour - but far from socialist (which Labour claims to be). Generally they seem to be reasonably pragmatic (which appeals to me, quite frankly) and they do have one big asset in Vince Cable (probably the best Chancellor this country never had). The UK electoral system is weighted against them, however. Whatever happens, some big things will change but many others won't. We'll see.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
In all probability, the Conservatives will be swept to power in the next general elections. What I'm curious about is, will they get such a boost they completely dominate Parliament to the extent of pushing through whatever legislation they want? That would be a Bad Thing.
I'm not so sure; they aren't as far ahead in the polls as you might expect. I rather suspect that a) the public have longer memories than the politicians give them credit for and remember the last time the Tories had unhindered control of parliament and b) there is a significant minority of people in this country who would never trust them anyway. The converse is also largely true of course.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Isn't this just what happened in the 90s, when the Tories screwed up so badly people thought, "Anybody but them" and Blair rode to power?
If the incoming government has a landslide majority I would say yes. I've a theory that incoming UK governments mostly do no evil in their first term, do some evil (but not enough to make us want to have the other lot back) in their second term and royally p**s everyone off in their third term! We then let the other lot back in until they screw it up. We never get the Government we need, but we probably do get the Government we deserve. :doh:
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Also, where do the Lib Dems stand on the political spectrum? Are they farther left than Labour, or are they centrist (between Labour and Conservatives), or am I looking at Britain through American-tinted everything-is-two-dimensional, liberal-or-conservative, black-or-white, good-or-evil glasses?
Pre Blair the LiDems were a centrist party broadly between the other two. Now that Labour has lurched so far to the right they are probably more left wing than Labour - but far from socialist (which Labour claims to be). Generally they seem to be reasonably pragmatic (which appeals to me, quite frankly) and they do have one big asset in Vince Cable (probably the best Chancellor this country never had). The UK electoral system is weighted against them, however. Whatever happens, some big things will change but many others won't. We'll see.
Thanks, Anna!
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Thanks, Anna!
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
No worries. :)
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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In all probability, the Conservatives will be swept to power in the next general elections. What I'm curious about is, will they get such a boost they completely dominate Parliament to the extent of pushing through whatever legislation they want? That would be a Bad Thing. Isn't this just what happened in the 90s, when the Tories screwed up so badly people thought, "Anybody but them" and Blair rode to power? Also, where do the Lib Dems stand on the political spectrum? Are they farther left than Labour, or are they centrist (between Labour and Conservatives), or am I looking at Britain through American-tinted everything-is-two-dimensional, liberal-or-conservative, black-or-white, good-or-evil glasses?
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Trying to plot politics on some sort of spectrum is illogical at best.
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