CLICK HERE to read how I seem to have made The Times People of the Year. Well I never. A nice way to start 2005! Just had the Eastern Evening News on the line who are going to do a piece on it too. Here's the excerpt...
Iain Dale, Tory candidate for Norfolk North, was praised as a uniquely gifted candidate by no less than Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, who represents a neighbouring constituency. Dale has the unenviable task of unseating a Liberal Democrat, but with his pioneering website he outdoes the Lib Dems in his commitment to community politics and his political bookstore is now a thriving internet venture. He will be a high-flyer if he makes it to the Palace of Westminster.
Of course this sort of thing is a double edged sword! But I particularly like the bit about community politics. If The Times notices it, it must be true. After all, it is the newspaper of record!
It will not be long before a politician without a blog, will not be taken seriously. The sooner the better.
ReplyDeleteHi!(to the poster above!) I realise this is a bit hyypocritical as I have obviously spent some time looking at this blog - but the truth is all this blogging business, however entertaining, is completely irrelevant as far as community politics is concerned, isn't it? How many Norfolk pensioners tune in to obscure blog spots or indeed even know what a blog spot is - let alone have the money to get on line. Those people are probably more concerned with making their pensionn stretch to more important things. I don't know - but that's the way it seems to me...
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