Sharpe's Opinion
Sunday, 11th Jan, 2009
If you only read one post about the new semi-official Labour Blog LabourList make it this one from Dizzy. Rather than being knee-jerkingly critical, he offers some well-thought-out advice to Derek Draper about getting the site off the ground.
It’s going to take some time to assess the impact of the site, but if I was Derek Draper I would be having a chat with Tim Montgomerie for some advice on what to do and what not to do in order to make it a success. If you take a look at Conservative Home it spends the vast majority of its time talking about the Tory Party, Tory policy, and Tory media hits. It does not and not set itself up as an attack blog in anyway.
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Remember, that for the most part you are preaching to the converted who will be far more interested in discussing how and what Labour need to do to win a fourth term. As I say, Derek needs to talk to Tim Montgomerie and do lunch. Yes, they are poles apart politically, but right now he has a site that, because of his own influential position, can become something that works for Labour supporters on the scale that Conservative Home does for the Tories.
That said, I think everybody is comparing LabourList to the wrong site. Charlotte Gore has said that Labour already have their own version of ConservativeHome in the shape of Liberal Conspiracy. I think that LabourList is likely to be more like Labour’s Blue Blog.
Dolly does seem to have taken the trolls personally though…and he’s spent the last few years doing what?
I’ll check it out again in 10 days time.
ladytizzy
January 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm