Tag: edemocracy
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Paul “Guido” Staines and Matthew Taylor are having an indirect war of words today, with both sides blaming the other for the current ‘crisis’ in democracy. Frankly, this is self-aggrandisement on a massive scale. Websites such as Order-Order hardly help restore people’s trust in politics, but anyone who believes, as Matthew Taylor appears to, that…
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The Jack Straw pledge I started a week ago is nearly at 2/3rds the target 100 I set. If you haven’t already signed, today’s the deadline to get to it! And whether you’ve signed up yet or not about it, if you’re a blogger, please blog about it. With a bit more of a push…
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Lib Dem Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, and a finalist in the New Statesman New Media Awards last night Jo Swinson, has criticised his outspoken attacks on TheyWorkForYou: “Mr Straw has seen fit to attack theyworkforyou.com for using ‘quantitative rather than qualitative’ measures to assess MPs’ performance. Sites like this are in their infancy,…
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My Jack Straw pledge now has 51 signatories – just over the halfway mark. But with three more days to go, can I urge people to sign up – and get their friends to sign up? Cheers! Oh – and blog it. Ta.
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I feel a bit bad about calling Jack Straw a cretin in my pledge yesterday. What he said about theyworkforyou was certainly stupid, but now I’m anxious that people are going to write him abusive messages, which wasn’t my intent at all. So if you do sign the pledge and write him a letter please…