Tag Archives: campaigning

“Press release as blog post” drives me mad

MH at Syniadau says: I have to admit to not being fond of the way that political parties interact with the media before a general election. Policy tends to get broken down into bite-sized chunks that will fit into a one column story or a two minute video clip on the news. There is no [...]

NoBonus4RBS will fly and fly

There are currently 7771 members of the Facebook group “NoBonus4RBS“, started by Billy Bragg. Let’s watch it fly and fly. RATM wasn’t the first successful Facebook group-based campaign (see HSBC’s student overdraft charges, for instance). But I think it is a good model to emulate. As I said here about song-based campaigns, negative campaigns can [...]