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Red, Blue or Purple: Which Labour are you?

June 3, 2011

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You may have heard of the Green Tories or the Orange Lib Dems. Factions who take the party colours and twist them to fit a new vision of what their party should stand for. Well as is typical on the left, Labour has decided that one faction is just not good enough and so has […]

Labour’s tepid election

May 15, 2011

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If the Lib Dems election PR disaster was fairly comprehensive, Labour’s was worse. Tepid has been used to describe the party’s performance, but if you include Scotland in the mix, that is being kind. The biggest challenge to the communications strategy in Scotland was an increasing trend to create a ‘presidential’ battle between Iain Gray […]

24 hours: A long time in political PR

May 11, 2011

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The definition of ‘a long time in politics’ is shortening. It used to be a week of course. But in 24 hours from about 10.50pm on Thursday 5th May, the political landscape fundamentally changed. In PR terms, it showed how desperately inadequate all the parties are. With (perhaps) one exception. I’ve questioned for some time […]