Who Has Really Learnt About Campaigning from Obama?
A few months ago Guido was speaking at events and pontificating on panels with politicians who were going on about how they had learnt from Obama’s campaign. We were told there was going to be online fund raising on a major scale in the manner of Obama.
So far as Guido can tell Compass, 38 Degrees, Old Holborn and Anna Raccoon‘s smoking landlord campaign, MyConservatives.com, YouFund.Me.uk and the Taxpayers’ Alliance are the only groups successfully raising money from the many via small online donations resulting from advertising and email lists. Even so we are talking thousands of pounds rather than tens of thousands of pounds. Labour’s efforts so far have not borne much fruit by all accounts.
The stand out candidate who has raised more online than any other candidate ever is Antony Calvert, who is standing against Ed Balls in Morley & Outwood. Although trying to over-turn a notional majority of 9,000 against the Unite-backed bruiser, Ed Ball’s price at the bookies has steadily moved in from sure-fire favourite towards only a 50% chance of him holding his seat. Antony Calvert is running him neck and neck. Why is that? Could it be because Antony Calvert is Britain’s unlikely answer to Obama, having raised more money in small online donations than other candidate in Britain. George Osborne singled out Calvert’s campaign for praise in a speech to CCHQ staffers, calling it “a castration strategy”.
The truth is, if Antony Calvert takes Morley and Outwood, he will be Britain’s first digital election winner…
(Incidentally, you can donate to his campaign here and you can bet on him winning Morely & Outwood at PoliticSmarkets.)
My readers donated every penny for my campaign through my blog. Over £3K and still counting.
Read my manifesto for Cambridge
http://www.oldholborn.net/2010/04/my-manifesto.html
Thankyou for proving my point OH.
£50 is winging its way to you from me.
Hurry up, I’m skint.
Got a MASSIVE stunt scheduled for Saturday, Market Square, Cambridge.
3 MP’s in a cage, wearing pig masks. And half a ton of rotten vegetables. Roll up, dear voters, roll up.
Can’t you do something like fill 5000 Durex with gas and blow the University up?
Looks great but no mention of fairness for all.
Unless you are going to do something like spark up your fucking barrel I am not interested, seen our old mate The Devil getting some earlier from Mr Brillo for swearing and that.
I’d have just chinned Brillo. Never did the Sex Pistols any harm.
Oink! Oink!
you did this already
I’d rather keep my 50 quid…
I seem to remember the chairbeing of Cambridge University Science Fiction Society having a pop in the 1983 election, under the name Lorimer Brizbeep. I wish you more success than him/her/it.
Apparently Cambridge University used to have it’s own MP. they only stopped it in 1950.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29
If you get in can you do something about all the mad bastards on bikes.
Oh, yes! The Lorimer Brizbeep Science Fiction Loony Party. I do recall that.
saw you reception on the stuck up chat rooms there,snobby bastards.
Saw the leader of the Libertarians on Daily Politics today, thats of course and internet based party, how old is he? 16? Brillo made him look an absolute cock repeating his juvenile comments to him, are you up for a bit of that OH? What about the joo stuff? seemed happy he had 450 members though.
That was our very own Devils Kitchen (Guido has a link to him on the right). At least he had the balls to go into the lions den, but he was always going to take a kicking for the, em, “forthright robustness” of some of his posts.
we’re all old holborne together on here
Mine is golden virginia, $7.20 / 50 g, Bruin dont get a lookin at that
OH wanna be one of 646 troughers… eh no thanks mate. I live in cambs, and Id rather take the day off and remain in bed. I;ve got no faith in no fu*ka, let alone a guy who looks like the lone ranger on a bad day.
If he was to fill that barrel of his with what it says on the label and spark it up, I would bung something towards that
As a local (but not in the Cambridge constituency), I can assure everyone that Cambridge is full of egotistical bearded cycling Trots with incredible intellectual snobbery and a sense of entitlement the size of Pyongyang. It’s no coincidence that the USSR saw it as a happy hunting ground for traitors.
Mr OH – it will be a lost deposit for you, I am sorry to say.
PS. They hate motorists with a passion, so Mrs Article 38 and I like to spend our shopping pounds in Bury St Edmunds or Norwich when possible.
fuck me, you r sorted. gee us a fag tosser
The authentic voice of Cambridge… Anyhow, one does not indulge in such a filthy habit (any longer). Go and scrounge off a pissed student like usual.
he knows that,he’s just there to wind the bastards up, and if you go mooching around the local forums and chats there he is certainly doing that, they fucking hate him
Money no, how abouf a spliff
Just got back from a hustings at Stop the War Coalition.
Never have so many organic jumpers been knitted by so few, for so many.
I even had the obligatory Jockanese Trade Union Rep demanding I take my mask off so he could see my face. I told him he could see my arse.
This is SO much fun.
I’ve also had my election posters printed in Kirkcaldy. Just for a laugh.
We have learned that Sky News supports New Labour, cutting off Gordon Brown from giving an embarrassing answer to awkward public questions…..
ho ho ho. Hope Mr Testes does indeed get the chop.
after you…..
You miss the point Guido.
The object lesson from the Obama campaign was it was all about the dispossed using technology to be heard instead of ignored.
Most of Obama’s funding was given by people on low incomes instead of millionaires and most of his most vociferous supporters were not those inside his campaign team but those without.
Which bodes an ill wind for the millioniare housing benefit cheat and upper class toff David Cameron.
There is a party doing that at this elections, doing just fine I have been told. Sorry I am not allowed to mention who they are though.
Their accounts are being audited as we speak
whose ar’nt
Unlike the EU.
you beat me to it Longbow, but then again, when it comes to those who must not be named, Guido will never give them any credit, even when it is deserved.
It does make his point a bit void though. There are actually quite a few people making the internet work for them, and the best ones at it, he won’t mention ?
Because they are a bunch of cocks?
Who is’nt
stop talking about my cock!
not talking about it. laughing at it.
honestly. sue your parents. it’s pathetic.
my little finger is bigger than that!
Rory kettle on Jones thinks it’s the limp dimps
I think if you looked a little closer at Obama’s housing transactions in Chicago you would find Cameron may be on firmer ground than him. The guy Obama teamed up with to allow him to buy his house is now languishing in jail and many people in Chicago believe something extremely iffy went on.
this is being found in car in parking lot with ventilated head talk
this is paranoid conspiracy lunatic anal probe up the arse talk
HE knows where you live thick as thieves!!! RUN!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Obama was a ‘machine’ politician from Chicago, described as one of the most corrupt cities in America. He made no public attempt to fight it though – it seems that he went with the flow.
He’s a bit of both. In the machine and out of it, one foot in the machine if you like.
‘Most of Obama’s funding was given by people of low incomes…’
Fucking nonsense. Most of Obama’s funds was given by the Too-Big-To-Fail banks, in particular The Blood Sucking Squid, Goldman Sachs. In fact, believe it or not, Goldman was the biggest contributor to Hiolary Clinton’s and McCain’s funding, too.
And they ain’t gonna let any of them forget it.
Soros funded Obama
Have a look, he does it here too you will need to lift some stones though.
just another gig mate, just another gig.
What’s McDoom’s majority in Killcalldee? Can someone try a castration strategy there? That would be fucking sweet.
Maybe I could help?
Shouldn’t take long.
Well I live in his constituency and I don’t/won’t vote for him no sure what else to do…
Any good with a shotgun?
Suicide?
no mong bruin when he is on the patch
how much, no i do it for nothing so i can become a hero to the uk
Why not, bushido code and all that, do you do kamakazi?
I’ll pay for the bullets
Sorry love to see him do it, BUT habitual voteres are impossible to change . . . . . pity
Indeed, and the hard core client state vote is much bigger than perceived thanks to relatives who also benefit from the silly public sector wages and means-tested benefits …
sez you with Tory tatooed on yer arm since birth
it’s actually ‘Baton’ you cock
I have a cock too, spellchecker. If I say its baten, its fucking baten, its my name so bugger off and get one of your own, its not rocket sience wazzock
tattoo not tatoo the noo
The G&BL issued the following statement at 5pm today:
In the matter of Charles WheeeleyBin, the Speccy, Fucked-Up Carter and rumours of bullying within Noo_Lie_Bore and its coterie of Union and other hangers-on, I wish to make clear that there has never, is, or will be any bullying or intimidation of staff or hangers-on.
My Lord Prezza of ClothHead and Patsy is a shining example. And I, your G&BL, am too.
Now get stuffed. And don’t drip blood on my carpet.
Vate fae me!
Please don’t vote out my hubby. He’s a nice man and will one day be Labour leader.
Yes, with a fucking big cock
The one hanging off ya forehead doesn’t count.
He’s a nice man and will one day be Labour leader.
Yvette, may I point out two factual errors in that statement?
But he does have a haircut like Hitler. Maybe his surname should be ball?
Whelan: “It’s Balls who should invite the IMF!”
I love my meat.
You’ve been to Mrs Lovett’s pie shop again, haven’t you John? Who else makes pies with such juicy gobbets of gravy as the one I can see on your tie?
I love meat too, what I dont like is buying it for you
Talking of money, the famous cheque for £16,000 that Hazel Blears waved at the cameras before sending it to the IR. Was it ever cashed?
He has learnt that Obama hates Gordon Brown.
Well, don’t we all?
Dont be daft.
If the internet really made a difference they’d ban it
It’s in progress – have you not noticed?
They won’t ban it; monitoring web-traffic is the closest thing they’ve got to reading your mind.
That and monitoring phone calls for key words.
Esh shalom
Fuck me OH were you on standby prompt there?
We’ll all be tuning in to watch McGonads bitch lose his deposit. However I will also be donating £5 to him so he can get a decent haircut, he looks like Biffa Bacon.
…one of the first…
Speaking as someone who knows and likes Calvert, I can’t wait to see him knock Balls over, but he is an absolute windowlicker.
Calvert posts on here? Or Calvert is Guido? Which is it?
just given him a tenner although i would willingly give a thousand if it was guaranteed to oust Balls
OT but according to SKY, driving like a looney and leaving skid marks a la Lewis Hamilton is referred to a Hooning. And there are Anti-Hooning laws. Just thought I’d mention it.
2 mums genetics,whats the Gordon connection?
Worst party political broadcast ever…..
Vote Lib Dem – Vote litter
Fair litter for all!!
Did you see Uncle Vince pulling Clegg’s strings and Mad Chris Huhne screaming abuse in the background?
I just googled this
weird old and young guy team
and got this result.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&q=weird+old+and+young+guy+team&meta=&btnG=Google+Search
The Lib Dem Facebook group based on Rage Against The Machine has taken Obama’s example to heart by employing the new technologies to engage the young vote in the forthcoming election:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=113749985304255
£1,000 pounds donated to the campaign + £1,000 bet placed to cover my costs !
BALLS TO LOOSE HIS SEAT !
As a believer in fairness for all I would have to give all the candidates a grand each
Can I have some…
Charlie Whelan exposed in the Spectator:
Mr Whelan’s style – bullying – may be commonplace in the rougher world of Westminster (and, by some recent accounts, inside No10 itself). But in a union devoted to tackling bullying, such a modus operandi was extraordinary. After he had been there for little over a year, several of his colleagues brought a formal “joint grievance” against him seeking a full investigation into his behaviour. Only three complainants were prepared to name themselves: Sarah Merrill, John Cryer and Vicky Foxcroft. All were political officers, reporting directly to Mr Whelan.
The formal grievance, a copy of which has been obtained by The Spectator, said the others will not name themselves “due to fear of intimidation and reprisals, and due to the cultural atmosphere that prevails.” In her complaint, Ms Merrill referred to “a real culture of fear, and a climate of bullying that [Mr Whelan] allows to take place in his department.” She mentioned “a verbal violent and abusive tirade” which he made. “People cannot reason with Charlie,” says the grievance. “They are just there to do as they are told and do what he wants.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5912373/how-charlie-whelan-killed-new-labour.thtml
The UNITE union sounds just like the Labour govt: bullying, violence, threats, smearing etc
Like Brown, like Whelan, sociopathic pieces of shit, the pair of em.
This is what happens when dictatorial communist thugs get into positions of power.
More like THIS
Promote fairness.
Ban Sunlamps
hey oop lads ers one fer yer
Balls needs Yvette to be neutered
So if George Osborne thinks Anthony Calvert is so good has he made the Conservative candidate stand down and asked all Conservatives to vote for Calvert.
Calvert is the Conservative candidate. Doh!
I heard a person on bbc radio 4 say he got 14 to 1 on the Conservatives winning the election by 40+ seats.
So today I went into my local betting shop and asked what odds were a Conservative and Labour victory.
I had to explain the rudimentary election rules to the 2 20+ who did not even understand a hung parliament.
They phoned head office for odds and gave me 1 to 7 for a Conservative win and 4 to 1 for a Labour victory. So much for believing radio 4.
Listening to the bbc one could be right in believing that the odds would be the other way around.
What are the odds you can get?
I’ll bet my money on de bob tail nag. Doo-da, doo-da.
Didn’t you make a few Bob out of Bring Jacqui to Justice?
Schools and Hospitals
Just wanted to say that – hasn’t been mentioned by any party for almost 4 minutes now.
online fund raising on a major scale in the manner of Obama.
Well, the legal part anyway.
The MSM never investigated the many blog stories about how foreign money (illegal) found its way into BHO’s campaign via cash cards and credit cards thru an online system with Address Verification disabled i.e. all you needed was a valid account number.
UK bloggers helped unmask this but of course he got away with it and the Fed Election Commission has yet to audit his campaign altho’ they’ve done all past presidential campaigns.
How about a photograph of Ed Balls outside Specsavers, do you think they would sue?