I am Alex White, a progressive campaign strategist, writer, social marketer and policy activist.
UK Labour has unleashed their latest salvo against the Tories, in the form of a poster criticising David Cameron for wanting to turn Britain into an international minnow. It’s interesting to see that the UK election is fought out in large part through creative design used to easily explain complicated issues and policy. What is [...]
UK Labour media master Alastair Campbell has an excellent post on his blog today about how the Tories consistently fail on strategy, even if they excel on tactics. He basically makes the point that even though the media is on their side, and they are able to get their line in the paper each day, [...]
Just before the election was called, there were some very interesting articles about David Cameron and the UK Tory Party’s approach to online campaigning. The Tories (like most opposition parties, such as the Democrats with Obama in 2008, and Labor in 2007 with Kevin 07) are being quite innovative and creative with their online activities. [...]
April Fools Day 2010 brought us one of the best fake political campaigns of the decade, with the “Vote Labour. Or Else.” slogan. Now, with the British election starting today (with the poll on May 6), let’s look at the British Labour Party’s actual campaign. British Labour is doing a lot of good things with [...]
Tony Blair has a new election website for the British general election this year. In a 10 minute video, he exposes the vacuous nature of the UK Tories campaign, and how, although they are advocating “change”, they haven’t spelled out what change actually means: What happens after a long period of one party in Government, [...]