Video killed local engagement
You know, I’m dead keen on improving political engagement, it’s just that I’m not sure this is the way to go about it:
Why does he keep smiling, seemingly at random? Why don’t the old ways of engaging with people - public speeches, leaflets, and going to doors and talking to people - work any more? And isn’t that the sound of someone shooting themselves at the 55 second mark?
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:15 am
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Guuuh!….why is it that everything they do gives off this miasma of fakery? Clearly, El Gordo has been told by some snakeoil PR consultant to smile AT ALL TIMES cos it reassures us ornery folk, right? - makes us feel that he cares, that he`s one of us….
The smile of the crocodile, more like. And did you catch that line about hoping that lots of young people (ie impressionable, malleable types, they hope) will get all enthusiastic and NuLabourphilic upon seeing His Mighty Brownness on Youtube. Dunno about that - anyone under 30 these days has an automatic what-bullshit-is-this-guy-selling detector ingrained so this might be a totally pointless exercise, akin to the Big Conversation.
Also, in Scotland there is a somewhat derogatory saying, often directed at tossers and bampots, and is `You Choob!`
The word “conman” keeps coming to my mind!
If thou
entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;
thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my
presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.’
Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do
everything that thou wilt have me.
‘ere, Chicken, ave a bit ov culture! GB is as loony as Malvolio.