Zack Exley, Labour’s spammer, is I hear back off to the U.S. for a break. But evidence of his handiwork is in Guido’s inbox, in the form of an email allegedly from Blair, but actually from Zack’s database. With Howard landing one on Blair with Mrs Dixon’s seven cancelled NHS operations, Labour clearly wanted a quick response.

And this afternoon it arrived, lauding Labour’s NHS in that “one party, one state, one NHS, one divine leader” language that New Labour has now adopted. Is it self parodying, or is Zack actually seditiously Backing Blair?

Both Backing Blair and New Labour are much slicker than the Tories. Yesterday an unreadably disorganised email randomly mixing HTML and JPEGs arrived from Conservatives.com, it was very definitely not optimised for all inboxes. The Tories badly need to sort out their online strategy or at least make their emails readable by those of us not currently on amphetamines. I literally can’t reproduce it here because its so badly designed.