This is the site for grassroots party loyalists? Oh dearie me….
The irrepressible Mr Eugenides has even started his own one.
In the Indy this morning he says that there is an obligation on the Lobby and in particular its senior members “inside the loop” to correctly interpret the “culture in British politics of off-the-record journalism”.
He then goes on to seemingly accept the Guido critique:
He feels references to “Blairites say” and “Brownites claim” leave viewers feeling “short-changed” and says he must do more to get politicians on camera. He says the audience was also irritated by references to Charles Kennedy’s alcohol problem being widely known before it was made public. “The problem was with the chatterariat or commentariat who, in an easy cliché, said it was ‘Westminster’s best-kept secret’. Instantly what was being said to the audience was ‘We knew, you didn’t, we’re in some sort of conspiracy of silence.'”
The most important revelation in the interview was that his glasses are Gucci.
Scientific and objective? Who cares, look who came came top!* Guido was reluctant when Iain asked for a few hundred words for his Guide to UK Political Blogging, however when he said the Miliblogger was contributing – well you know how it is – so buy a dead-tree-copy or scrounge one off Dale at a party conference. Alternatively download it here and see for yourself the result. Guido assumed an earnest, caring social justice promoting blog would come top. Totty-watching must have even wider appeal than Guido originally imagined…
*Guido’s blog was judged the #1 Non-Aligned Blog & the #1 UK Political Blog Overall. Notice that Guido was in the non-aligned category, not Tory, though this never seems to get through to some lazy journalists and a certain type of pro-regime apologist for New Labour’s sleaze.
We will soon find out who has won the LibDem best blogger prize, alas Suz did not make the final.
Meantime Guido can reveal tha the LibDems plan to announce the launch of another rival to the mega-successful ConservativeHome.
City tycoon Paul Marshall of Wace Marshall and Orange Book fame is the backer and it is not to be confused with LibDemVoice. Will it be more successful than his CentreForum offshoot and dead bit of cyberspace that is FreeThink?
