Lib Dem Voice’s Mark Pack, ConservativeHome’s Jonathan Isaby and LabourList’s Derek Draper discussed online campaigning in a Hansard Society event held in Parliament yesterday.
The event was chaired by Dr Laura Miller from the Hansard Society eDemocracy programme.
From the Society’s website:
This event discussed the use of online strategies and their increasing importance, encouragement of grass-roots activism and ability to enable mass mobilisation. But there is no guarantee that the cooption of online strategies will guarantee electoral success or promote healthy dialogue between politicians and citizens.
You can watch the video here.
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Awww, Mark is very sweet, not at all the attack dog of his online persona.
While Mark’s talking, Derek Draper successively… tucks into snacks with relish… catches up on email… has a drink… has some more food… texts a friend… has another drink… clears his table…
Laura Miller, meanwhile, has a look on her face as if Mark has committed some sort of huge faux pas but is desperately trying not to point it out.
When it’s his turn, Jonathan says some interesting things in a dull way. He needs a hug.
And then Derek rambles. But he begins with his endearingly self-deprecating joke about his best friend in Berkeley (not *at* Berkeley) who said “I Googled you.. And there’s another Derek Draper in England… and he’s a complete twat.”
Daily Politics has Draper and Guido today – the scales have tipped over to a complete lack of balance at the BBC (in more ways than one).