New Labour: spammers
Any other bloggers out there getting emails from a John Miles on the Labour Party ‘New Media Task Force’? I am even though I didn’t asked for them and I’m unable to unsubscribe from them. Five emails since January 13th. I’m being spammed by New Labour.
Tim Ireland has the full story including why and how New Labour are breaking the law on spamming.
Like Tim, I’d assumed I was getting them because I’m signed up to New Labour’s general news email list. Not a bit of it, in fact. The emails are specifically begging for links from blogs. It’s a link-whoring exercise. New Labour have had someone harvest the email addresses of blogging ‘Labour people’ (don’t laugh) in order to spam them.
We’re trying to get the maximum number of Labour people involved and if you could blog about the discussion forum – even a short post with a link – we can ma ke sure as many people know about it as possible.
…and…
With David Cameron launching his Energy policy today, we thought you might like to have a copy of Ed Miliband’s response to it.
…and…
…you can embed the widget onto your blog using the code here…
…and…
I wanted to let you all know about the site we’re launching today…
I’ve been unwillingly conscripted into New Labour’s online propaganda offensive it would seem. The spam is addressed to ‘Justin’ so some New Labour drone has taken the time to read this blog’s ‘About Me’ page (but not this which is very prominently linked to at the top of the page) but didn’t take the (very, very short) time required to read a few posts and discover that I’d drive rusty nails into my generative organs before I’d help New Labour hawk their tawdry wares.
Someone at New Labour’s ‘New Media Task Force’ is clearly a dickhead. On top of Derek Draper’s woeful LabourList it’s all too apparent that it’s amateur hour in New Labour’s online propaganda division right now.
‘We made a list of bloggers we thought might be interested,’ Sue Macmillan, ‘New Media Campaigns Taskforce Leader’, told Tim Ireland. Well, we’re interested now, Sue.
The next question is: how do I get off New Labour’s spam list?
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 at 8:30am under Blog, bloggers and blogging, Eye Catching Initiatives, New Labour
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Mine are addressed to ‘Tory’ and no I didn’t sign up to anything.
AdamB: Hahahaha! “Dear Mr Troll…”
Justin: I suspected there were other victims; that’s why I’ve not taken legal action just yet.
Everyone: If you’ve been spammed by the Labour Party, do sound off or get in touch via email.
Oh, and Justin? To get off this mailing list, you will probably have to wait until the next edition, which will almost certainly include an ‘unsubscribe’ function now that the horse has bolted and disappeared over the horizon. In fact, if the Labour Party have anyone with brains on board, there should be a new email sometime early today containing an apology, an ‘unsubscribe’ function, and an entirely different type of begging.
* doesn’t hold breath *
Hey, the odds of it happening have just increased now that I’ve suggested it.
During exchanges with Draper about credit for creative work, I pointed out that posts generally have permalinks at the top and/or bottom of posts (and not on the sidebar in a general south-westerly direction). An hour or so later… *BAM*, they had permalinks in place.
Not a word of thanks, mind. If anything, Greg Jackson (CEO of Tangent Labs) has busied himself badmouthing me over my ‘arrogance’ (in emails where he may or may not have realised that I was on the CC list).
ahem… the odds have, of course, improved. It is the likelihood that has increased. I think.
I pointed out that posts generally have permalinks at the top and/or bottom of posts
What the hell did you do that for? I’ve spotted a balls-up on LabourList but I’m keeping schtum. I’m not in the business of doling out free advice to the likes of Draper. I’m £250 an hour to him.
I’d said elsewhere that his claim that a certain crappy video was ‘sent in’ didn’t allow for comments. Turns out it did, and I had to explain why 99% of blog readers would not have found the requisite link without hunting all over the front page for it.
Besides, we both know how far I’d get with an invoice…
I feel all left out and unimportant now – not a whiff of an email from Labour HQ, despite having been listed as a Labour blogger in Iain Dale’s last list of political blogs. (I would have sued him for that if it didn’t cost so much to bring a libel action…)
I don’t feel all that flattered to be honest. Someone visited my blog and thought I was just the sort of chap who’d whore for New Labour. I feel dirty.
But the thinking from this new gang of new media wannabes appears to be that attacking the Tories is the same as supporting Labour.
(Strangely, this is the same level of thinking that infects the websites of Iain Dale and Paul Staines.)
You know you can sue for libel in the small claims court, right? I think we ought to start abusing the law against, well, anyone we feel like, in order to highlight how stupid it actually is.
I’ll be a witness—I’ve read the damn thing.
My, how low John Miles has sunk.
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I haven’t been spammed – I think Dear Derek understands my point of view Re: supposed-Labour. Hopefully he has passed on how much I detest this neo-liberal government.
If not they can read that here, Liberal Conspiracy, Modern Liberty, or the multitude of blogs I have posted upon or my blog – entirely up to them.