Tory Tweeters Defy Dave
Last week Guido revealed how Tory high command had called in the cavalry to train MPs in the art of tweeting the party line. Lynton Crosby went further yesterday, telling MPs they were “participants, not commentators”.
Since the meeting:
Read that I must be a 'participant not a commentator' in @MailOnline hours before talk which also includes need not to brief press #irony—
Sarah Wollaston MP (@drwollastonmp) March 12, 2013
I just felt the need to Tweet this! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…—
Michael Fabricant (@Mike_Fabricant) March 12, 2013
I really hope rumours of u-turn on minimum unit pricing for alcohol are not true. We must tackle problem of easily accessible cheap alcohol—
Tracey Crouch (@tracey_crouch) March 12, 2013
It would be a cheap populist mistake to ditch #minimumpricing & would undermine any public health credibility on reducing avoidable deaths—
Sarah Wollaston MP (@drwollastonmp) March 12, 2013
Now off to International Development Questions followed by PMQs. Will Ed M mention twitter I wonder. My BlackBerry at the ready!—
Michael Fabricant (@Mike_Fabricant) March 13, 2013
A check of the 174 tweeting Tories reveals that most are on message. So they mostly took heed of Lynton…
a weak leadership and a weak government…….
Butch by name, blackmailed traitorous arsebandit by nature.
wouldn’t have happened with andrew mitchell in charge of discipline
Probably would have done, and he would have made a much stronger leader than Cameron.
surely it is for that reason as to why it wouldn’t have happened!
Too many Tweets make a Twat.
or rather Too many twats tweeting
It would be better if you had to pay for every tweet. We would have more work
I wish these MPs would put their phones away and get on with the job of solving the problems the country faces
You busy today yourself ‘A voter’..?
Unless he/she is being paid by the Taxpayer to tick boxes why should you care?
Anyway are you busy yourself medici2471 ?
I’ve got my iPad ready.
Nice waiter will soon bring my lunch. Am so hungry I could eat a burger.
I wish all these Quango bastards would just FUCK OFF and stop telling me how i should run my life
If i want to drink cheap booze what fuckin business is it of some no job tosser sat in an office in London ?
Just cause you mugs have to pay £4.50p a pint why should the rest of us
PISS OFF !
Did you know to much sugar can make you grumpy?
Oooh Diane, come and suck this, it’s sweet
.. and fat, so Di give it up lass before you cost us all funeral and another by election money.
Keeping them all on message will dilute their powerful use of twitter, and make the more interesting tweets stand out.
Will be interesting to see when the party line is wrong and all have to delete.
Little bit soviet this, isn’t it.
Vote UKIP.
Don’t worry many will. In spite of trolls like you.
Vote UKIP
If all the Tories jumped up and down at the same time do you realise that this would cause a massive … well nothing really
If all the Tories jumped up and down at the same time, it would make them look like a herd of squalling little brats throwing a tantrum.
Oh– wait a sec…isn’t that what…awww no, not them, not those wonderfully well-behaved parliamentarians Guido is always writing about…
It could help Dave’s image for history if he did become the first PM to be undermined and removed by Twitter. It would be a first.
How odd. An English school with English pupils.
Obviously Photo-shopped.
I mean I don’t look at all like the mendacious BlueLabour c.unt that I am.
Please retweet, its very important …
Supposedly Tory MPs calling for a fiat price for alcahol – further proof if any were needed that they dont know their derriere from their coude.
The knives are out for Camoron.
Blunt butter knives in tiny trembling hands.
Never normally agree with you Ed Miliprat, but you’re quite correct with that statement.
Tick Tock — Twit Twat
The clock ticks for Dave.
100 to 1 Gone this week
20 to 1 Gone after May Council elections
10 to 1 Gone by Con. Party Conference
1,000,000 to 1 Still P.M. after 2015 General Election
etc etc.
If only Miliblands PMQ blatherings could be reduced to 140 characters !
At least Dave got the Booze thingy right in the end. The fact that Fatbot is going apeshit over it tells you all you need to know.
“Cheap and populist”, ie representing the people.
A novel idea but it will never catch on in Westminster.
is lynton orient ever going to get the olympic stadium?
Dear Sarah and Tracey
I am a conservative. I am also an adult and like to take my own descisions. I do not need to be controlled, spoon fed or have my bottom wiped – not yet anyway. I would therefore prefer to make a fair and honest decision myself on what I drink and let the market offer me the fairest price for it. I don’t need you or civil servants or the Treasury to do this for me
Another two to be added to the (eventual hahaha) bonfire of the qangos.
One must do something to stop the lower orders accessing cheap alcohol. The need to be sober enough to sweep one’s chimneys or clean out one’s stables properly for goodness sake, how else are they going to support their awful children when we stop their benefit?