An unusual messaging choice by the London Labour Party

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An unusual messaging choice by the London Labour Party

By Mark Pack | Thu 5th February 2009 - 4:59 pm

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You run the London website for a political party. You’ve been told to put a series of photos of people on the front page of your site. Who do you think you’d select? Perhaps some of your London MPs? MEPs? Council group leaders? GLA members? If you’re Labour, the answer is … er, none of them. Instead you feature photos of all your staff. Me? I’m off to put a big photo of myself on all our sites I can find. It’s clearly the way to go.

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2 Comments

Will 5th Feb '09 - 5:03pm

While – as I’ve said here before – I’m loathe to throw stones, what with my lovely glass house, would this be the same website that can’t count how many GLA members they’ve got and lists Nicky Gavron as Deputy Mayor?
Anonymous 6th Feb '09 - 12:04am

Could they have a worse or more out of date site if they tried? There is barely any content and what there is seems to date from before the London Mayorial and Assembly elections

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