Tag Archives: UK election 2010

Tomorrow, we fight on

Gordon Brown gave a magnificent speech at the UK Labour Party HQ, thus affirming his role as one of the great statesmen of British politics: We fought for the future. And we continue to fight unceasingly because progress is not a word we just speak but a reality we have been creating where the ambit [...]

How the Tories lost the unlosable election

With negotiations between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats taking place as I write, it’s worth considering why the Tories are in this invidious position. A few months ago, David Cameron and his coterie were riding high in the polls, with expectations high that Labour would be smashed at the ballot box. The rout [...]

Britain’s first internet election?

TechPresident and CNN International are posing the question whether this UK election is the first “social media” election. Certainly both Labour and the Tories have made extensive use of the Internet, including iphone apps, and innovative web apps. We’ve seen Twitter and Facebook used extensively, and David Cameron was widely reported in the election commentary [...]