There were grumbles from the blue rinse brigade when the Tories moved their conferences from the seaside and signed up to have them in Manchester or Birmingham for the next few years. Guido isn’t sure that the branching out strategy had to go quite as far as stealing the design of Manchester City FC’s website:
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Yet another good reason to vote Labour
“Another”?! Like there’s more than none?
reasons to vote labour
1 – To make Brown responsible for all the mess he’s created.
2 – To frustrate Harman’s leadership ambitions
3 – To give customers to the bullying helpline.
4. – To be able to say in a few months time ” I was there. Right in the front. during the October revolution. I strung was there when they chopped off balls..”
5. – To be able to buy the House of Commons in the Great Britain closing down sale.
Hmmmm… Tempting but no sale
Nah.
Labour NEED the Conservatives to win. How could the ********** *********** ******* live with themselves if they were forced to confront the complete clusterfuck they have made of the country. They may well have to collectively top themselves if they are made to bring in all those measures which go against everything they stand for.
On the downside, we would be within 1/2″ of turning this land into the GDR of Great Britain
Sorry we must have missed them.
Can you list them again please ?
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And I wish the British public well in choosing Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath’s finest as their next First Lord of the Treasury
If another 5 years of Labour leads to the break up of the UK and us English gets its independent then I would vote Labour.
A comment let down badly by the clear inability to use correct grammar…
What, like that faux socialist up at Old Trafford, Widow Twankey or whatever his name is? (Says this lifelong City fan)
Come On You Blues !
Just a similar template?
Novice
it is just a template. plus the banner plus three columns is the latest style. these sites are everywhere. not really a story.
absolutely and have been for years
The stylesheets are totally different! The tory site looks a little bit similar to the Man City one, but that is nothing like a copy.
Anyone who designs websites for a living would tell you that they are completely different. There are massive differences between the two sites.
This is a really weak non-story guido. Your standards are slipping here.
Aye looks like to slightly similar but distinctly different style sheets like you find on Joomla site builders
Similar to the new Everton site too!! Still, all the blue supporters together!!!
http://www.evertonfc.com/home/
Aye. We hate all red bastards.
Reminds me more of the BBC main page.
No -that’s the Labour party website. One in the same thing
May be the same web design company did them both ?
money back all round then !
Lets hope Labour steal uniteds website !
All websites are becoming a much of a muchness now. Glad to see yours hasn’t followed the cookie cutter look yet.
It was the right thing to do………sorry couldn’t help myself.
Transcript of Brown’s ramble through Chilcot.
Blair and that, well they were all in it together.
Not Me though.
I did the right thing.Sometimes even more than i was asked. And I saved Iraq.
Vote Labour.
And of course, ‘it all started in America…’
At Chilcot today Brown blamed the lack of post-war plannning on the Americans.
So presumably the UK Government did some post-war planning that somehow wasn’t used? I think not. Our post-war planning was inadequate and rushed so that Bliar could rush into war with the Americans.
Of course Brown, lacking a spine, blamed the Americans…. heard that one before?
The most responsible position in UK politics is held by someone who refuses to accept responsibility for anything. Brown is gutless.
Erm we planned for the UN to plan, the World Bank to be involved, the IMF too. But they didn’t play ball. But we PLANNED that they would.
Some plan, Gordon.
What a scoundrel.
The Tories have been warned off using Manchester United’s site.
The tories would only steal something Blue
where as Labour might steal something Red
so mr ferguson i’d keep a tight grip on your Fucking Beaming Red Face !
s a u s a g e s
The really good one is the BBC front page and the Irish political party Fine Gael. Mental.
To be fair, a template’s a template.. (And I’ve seen more plagiaristic designs than that in my time.)
http://www.bbc5.tv is particularly good, in design and content!
Jeez.. City huh.. more dodgy money, crap manager, crap players, crap colours, crap supporters, crap… everything. Guido – why did you have to do this, it’s so depressing.
Took SIX points off Chelsea though so may be not that crap !
No- the best one is BBC and Newsarse (http://newsarse.com/2010/03/05/mps-urged-to-join-unison-to-fight-meagre-1000-pay-rise/) much funnier and has a “ring” of truth
PR advice for website photos – Tory hair cut (side parting), look upward, look thoughtful, look profound.
FFS
Let’s discuss something that matters.
Indeed…Talk about hiding bad news behind banal trivia.
Doesn’t look that much alike. Really.
M is for Marx
Never mind all that bollocks, where’s the totty?
Apparently George Osborne is known as “The Oik” in upper Tory circles. So there is a similarity except MC has more oiks.
Non-story; lots of template driven sites look like that.
Isn’t Brown’s dodgy testimony a little bit more interesting?!
“Value for Money in your Town Hall”
Try Est Herts District Council
Read, and weep……….
http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/Bishops-Stortford/East-Herts-Tories-accused-of-being-fat-cats.htm
Dave me old mucker, you need to start cleaning closer to home.
ABSOLUTE SHAMBLES
my dad let me build the site and he’s the leader of the council and I’m going to tell him what you said.
poppy Jackson and I’m a pc I’m 7 years old
Poppy you must be the daughter of the Leader, Tony?
Or are you the daughter of the chap who has bin bags full of £20 notes found in his attic by a house sitter (of course from his toasmaster side line – not his remit on housing) when he was on an exotic holiday last summer.
Or are you the daughter of one who has the large buy to let empire perhaps paid for from selling of the car parks on the cheap?
I could go on Poppy but I wouldn’t want you to have sleepless nights worrying about whether your Daddy will be reelected or indeed go to prison. There’s no cash left, Daddy lost it in the Icelandic banks along with all the other council tax payers money.
Nigh night, sleep well.
Guido,
Good point, but it is less a matter of copying the design of the website but more to do with the lack of design imagination of the developers. If you look at the vast majority of websites these days they all look the same.
The first chapter of my book Internet Marketing covers what people hate about websites. The Tory party and the Manchester City FC web developers should have read it first then they could have come up with a design that is user friendly.
You are Charlie Hardwedger And you can keep you £5
Correct, that is why every site I do, I do from scratch and build it with the needs of the visitor in mind, so that they can browse the site easily and find exactly what they need to know quickly, easily and in the best way to lead them further into the site.
I copy sites all the time cos I’m a lazy cheating bastard.but no one notices,get a life Guido
The first chapter of my book … ‘Don’t Waste Money on Nerd Fodder’ says buying books on internet marketing are a waste of money… you can use this plug for the sleeve of your new one if it helps sales.
They just used the same CMS and similar colours I would think. Free php/cms sites are easy and cheap to make
Yeah but we’re talking about the party that wants to lead government.
It shows they are frugal with their spending, unlike Labour!
Why spend a ton of money getting someone to create a website from scratch when you can use open source free code thus making the site in half the time and half the cost.
Except they didn’t pay a lower rate! They got jacked, plain and simple.
Why would you invite comparison with an outfit which has spent the last twenty years declining in the shadow of its more successful rival before being revived by a large injection of dodgy overseas money? City must be hugely embarrassed by this.
Oh….?
site wizard or what
One of these things is not like the other one of these things are not quite the same
here’s a scoop for you:
in web design, its content that matters. you of all people should know that. who gives a funk that both groups started with the same template…
cnut (anagram)
The sites are no more similar than loads of template websites are to each other. Though perhaps the Tories should follow City’s lead an pay big bucks for some international quality politicians. Ron Paul for Chancellor and Sarah Palin for Home Secretary would be a start.
fuck me broken xp and now fucking websites.what the fuck is going on.
It’s just another ‘off-the-shelf’ template.
Not very imaginative, but no big deal.
Today’s big deal is the performance of that lying bastard in No 10 at Chilcott.
You are aware that loads of private and public organisations use content management software that enables non-web designers to update a site using standard templates ?
Thought not
I mean its not like you use one on your own website….
It’s to annoy Tim Montgomerie, innit!!
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Guido seems to be remarkably IT unsavvy, wot with wanting M$ on computers with sensitive info and now this non-story. MACs are what the publishing industry uses and Linux is what hackers use to stay safe. Windows is for the unwise.
Vote Conservative. Do not vote Labour.
The Tory Website lead story is headed ‘Value for money in your town hall.’
Who’s he kidding? His party already controls the majority of local authorities in the UK and yet they are as reckless and wasteful as Labour when it comes to paying themselves (as councillors) and senior council officers. You only have to look at Leeds – £500,000 allowances for ten councillors in the Tory-led ‘Cabinet’ and £55 million for a vanity Arena that no-one needs and would willingly have been built by the private sector in a much better location anyway.
Cameron should have banged heads together in local authorities a long time ago. What can’t speak can’t lie. Unlike a politician.
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