Via Ed Maxfield comes news of the Telegraph’s coverage of the Lib Dems‘ new million-pound national call centre, being funded by a new major donor to the party.
I understand (and I’m not particularly in the loop on this, so don’t take it as gospel!) that data from this call centre will feed a new national voter-intention database being funded by a £500,000 grant from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. I’m sure more information will be released in time (when it’s built, for example).
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If this is true it is great news…and about time too. We are miles behind in terms of this type of campaigning compared to the other two and this will really give us a chance to target seing seats. Lets hope its up and running before the next GE!
Well if that nice Mr Maxfield is running it I’m sure it will be very good.
Indeed – Ed is a very good thing and this augurs well for the success of this venture
I was surprised at the decision to accept a large donation from an unknown businessman with no previous connection to the Party.
Money is difficult to resist, from anyone. That is why so few politicians were successful in shaking off John Poulson.
However, I have to presume in this case that the donor has been the subject of background checks. The money will be spent on a good cause, and it is difficult to see how the Party can do the donor any underhand favours.
Unlike the Labour and Conservatives parties, the Liberal Democrats bow neither to Bush nor to Murdoch. The rich and powerful will give us nothing, so every penny we can scrape from a generous benefactor is gold dust.
Those contact centres were a key element in the Labour and Tory campaigns last time. A goodly lot of people were conned into voting for those parties by the lies they were told over the phone. For us to have the same facilities to tell the people the truth is vital.