The changing face of politics

When you publish my guest blog on Tuesday about how I see the different personalities and policies of the different parties aligning, or not, to offer the IT professional and industry at large something tangible then let’s twitter it and see what comes from that!!

“70% also stated that each political party has had to become more web savvy in order to attract the modern voter”.
This is absolutely true and this can be dramatically important for the future of every democracy.
The main issue is how a party organize a democratic involvement of the citiziens in their politics.
Web 2.0 give a great potential of growth to democracy, to parties, to politics. I believe that feedback management web tools are an important instrument and I’m working to this kind of application.
I think the elections in next decades will be decided more on the web communication than in classic medias.

Politicians have never change their strategy. They create the problem and then try to solve it, but unfortunately none of them have ever had the capacity to solve any problem in the first place.
Because they are to busy perfecctionating them self’s in becomming Layers and cheat to misuse and waist the tax payer money, People put these money in their coffers with sacrifice.
Ho no ! They will not acknowledge this in stead They will lie saying I forgot that I had a Mortgage,
Common this is the biggest buy a human perform in its entire life.
LABOUR Will be defeated and the people will never forget Gordon’s strategy, nor will we forget the head of the house of lords that he never even had a single academic qualification to be the head of the house of lords in the first place.Comeback Margaret Thatcher the Iron lady & viva Nick Gibb and David Cameron

Shame the Lib Dems didn’t get more votes, they’re the only ones who promised to repeal that outrageously corrupt Digital Economy Bill those few bought MPs sneaked through.

I really hope young people get involved more and the newly formed Pirate Party becomes mainstream. The end to non-commercial copyright infringement is the only real solution to end this persecution. The Swedish Pirate Party on which the new UK one is based did quite well when young people got involved and even got a few EU seats iirc.

It’s practically impossible to be on the internet without infringing something, youtube is mostly infringing and could be blocked altogether, and the vast majority of people could theoretically be disconnected, even if they’re innocent, because proof is not required, only 3 accusations.

The UK is going to become a 4th rate internet power for broadband consumers as a result. It would actually be better to live in Russia or Brazil or somewhere they don’t persecute internet users.

That will surely be bad for talent in this country as the internet becomes a big turn off. I for one am reducing the amount of media that I pay attention to all round, so no I’m not buying more dvds, I’ll buy less thanks.

On the other hand, it could be good for other countries as people run their whole internet connections through vpns in free-er countries. I for one would pay for that.

As a Lib Dem parliamentary candidate, I’m still recovering from an exhausing 48 hours without sleep since arising at 6am on polling day. Being in a constituency with the reputation that if the proverbial monkey stood with a rossette of the correct colour, it would win, I received no party central funds for my campaign and local funds fell far short of the 3 figure amout required to print 90,000 odd copies of each leaflet required for each household in a typical constituency. However I did create a campagn website and got party members to e-mail friends and promote the site on Facebook. Twitter was not used, so maybe I missed a trick their? According to the BBC my constituency returned a 22% swing to the Lib Dems. I suspect that the majority of this swing was due to the TV Leaders debate but putting a handle on the degree of effect provided by the campaign website, which received less than a 1000 hits, is difficult to quantify. In the absence of a directory of domestic e-mail addresses (which would oprobably have to be paid for), and bearing in mind privicy issues, which must be respected, the question has to be asked whether it is possible to notify the majority of constituents of the presence of a campaign website without door to door delivery of a leaflet advertising the site?

There is also the question as to which party IT workers should support – or be supporting. About half of all people under 30 I have met who voted in the last election told me they voted BNP and I also met many who said they would have voted BNP if they had a candidate for their constituency. About 4 out of 5 of the remainder who didn’t vote BNP voted Conservative, Green, English Democrat, or UKIP. Very few confessed to voting Labour or Lib-Dem This is not reflected in the (largely apolitical) world of IT workers where most seemed to vote for a ‘mainstream’ party and shunned the smaller parties.