Labour. No matter whose money it is, they’ll waste it…
Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by RK in Other, United Kingdom
A little birdie tweeted in my ear earlier on that Kerry McCarthy MP has been trying to raise some money to counter the #kerryout campaign. The Twitter-led movement has raised over £1300 over a few weeks for Kerry’s opponent at the next General Election, the Conservative candidate Adeela Shafi.
Taking a quick look at the MyConservatives page for Adeela and the MembersNet page for Kerry, one can’t help but notice not just the complete lack of funding that Kerry is receiving, but also the rounded-up, vague and expensive prices that she’s put on her campaign tools.
- While £8.50 delivers to FOUR streets for the Tories, it’ll take £50 for Labour to make phone calls to ONE street. Interesting.
- £100 helps Labour write letters to 250 voters, while £175 helps the Conservatives survey (including return postage) 500. Economies of scale, something Labour’s economists never heard of. Engaging the electorate, something Kerry McCarthy has never dreamt of.
- Lastly, Adeela lists £47 to pay for 15,000 online adverts, whilst Labour don’t even have mention of this. I guess they see the Internet as useless and not worth utilising. (Ed: That or they give the party’s chaff a title like, “Twitter Tsar” or “The Facebook Madame” and have them make tits of themselves all day.)
#sackkerrymp… I mean uh, #kerryout
Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by RK in United Kingdom
Awesome video courtesy of www.kerryout.net
#kerryout
Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by RK in United Kingdom
I know, I know – we should have thrown our hats into the ring much sooner on this one! Apologies all, but today KeepRightOnline joins the #kerryout campaign. If you recall, we started the #sackkerrymp hashtag back in September 2009 and implore anyone and everyone who hasn’t donated yet to do so. Go on, gissa few bob.
It’s game time!
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
‘Game time’ it certainly was, as we discussed the differences between the Labour and Tory blogospheres, where the battles can be won, and where the battles are clearly being lost (Ed: I wonder if Kerry McCarthy came up?)
The biggest and best were present, vocal and in good spirits. Let’s carry the vigour into the new year and show the lost left why they just don’t get social media.
Good one, Sunny.
Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Banter 2.0 on a Sunday night tonight, when this editor and Sunny Hundal of Picked Politics fame had a Twitter based exchange of ideas of the whole Iain-Dale-Kerry-McCarthy-Nadine-Dorries-Bevanite-Ellie-Twitter-Blocking-Gate scandal. (Ed: Too long, it’s gotta be catchy, like… Sex Photo Gate or Waterkant-gate).
Where Sunny last tweeted left us both amused and bemused!
The question is… When have you ever met a parrot that does read, Mr. Hundal?
I lolled.
Hahahahahahaha…. (Prezza)
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
It seems KeepRightOnline scare the crap out of @johnprescott! Same applies by the way, for @bevaniteellie, @kerrymp and various other lefties who simply refuse to take us on due to various epic losses on their part.
Remember folks, who’s afraid of the big bad KRO?
Tweet4Victory: A 'KeepRight' Insight
Posted on 27. Sep, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
On Saturday 28th September, John Prescott hosted the cringe inducing “Tweet4Victory” rally at the Charles Street Bar, Brighton- one day before Labour Party conference got into full swing. KeepRightOnline were there.
Having had our fair share of experience in goading and being goaded by the likes of @KerryMP and @BevaniteEllie, KRO were intent on being in attendance, not for any malicious purposes, but more out of intrigue. The questions have long been on everyones lips, “What have the Labour Party got left?” and “Who could still support this dilapidated government and political party?”
The answers have been long debated, and the evidence is mounting. While @JohnPrescott claims to have raised £20,000 in a matter of hours by plugging his autobiographical diatribe, “Prezza,” you get a feeling that this minute success isn’t the eventuality of his clout or Labour’s record in government. Rather, it seems that of the type of intrigue one feels when passing an accident on the motorway. This cultural rubber-necking is precisely what drove us to walk straight up the stairs of the Charles St bar and into the belly of the would-be beast.
Prezza, signed by Prezza
Stop complaining, start campaigning!
The much repeated war cry of Prescott and GoFourth
Taking initial shots at the Taxpayer’s Alliance and Iain Dale, John swiftly moved onto showing a terribly amateur video (it still had the Apple logo in the corner) of his and colleagues achievements over the past 12 years. It’s safe to say the movie was short. What was painfully clear was the palpable disdain that Prescott feels toward former Cabinet comrade Charles Clarke. Mentioned no less than 20 times over the course of Prezza’s near hour-long rant, there’s a clear and embarrasing rift in the Labour Party.
Challenging the Conservative Party’s stance on global economics and the minimum wage, the audience cheered, albeit in lacklustre fashion when John urged activists to back Gordon Brown, the “internationally revered statesman.”. Daniel Hannan was mentioned only in passing, which was surprising given how much time GoFourth dedicate to the man.
Nonetheless, whatever you think of him- the man is full of vigour. John Prescott has the energy of a man half his age and half his size. As the room dispersed to the repeated phrase, “Stop complaining and start campaigning!” it was obvious that this was more an event to attempt to tenuously glue together the rifts in the party. Unfortunately, not enough people were in attendance for this to be worth anyone’s time.
KeepRightOnline schmooze the Big Man
We convinced the crew for a few moments that we’d never heard of KRO, which they seemed to buy after checking out our GoFourth stickers. Nonetheless, we soon gave our identity away for the sake of a commercial discussion, and we were swiftly shunned.
1996 this definitely was not. This excellent night was topped off only by the panic expressed in some Game Changer employees as they realised what had gone down. Once again, we hope our leftist comrades appreciate our intrigue, and we were pleased to bring the blogosphere an insight into Labour party activism proper.
* Incidently, Alex acknowledges he has little to no chance in the safe Tory seat, but argued well about the Baltimore-gate pseudo-scandal. Apparently, some party elders tried to tame this mischievous character, but he was having none of it. “Because you’re a PPC, you can’t have a sense of humour? I don’t think so.”
Video tomorrow.
Sack #kerrymp
Posted on 25. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
The past few weeks has seen Twitter become a veritable mish-mash of Labour funded propaganda, and not even good propaganda at that. The polls don’t lie, my friends.
Today, I had a bit of a nightmarish vision, which I chose to share with fellow Twitterers. (below)
Tee-hee, what a disturbing image, implying of course that @KerryMP is Prezza’s puppet. Something one can’t help but feeling when analysing the Twittersphere recently- the comment, when taken in context of our opinion on John Prescott and the new Twitter Tsar was a jab at the incompetence of NuLabourNuMedia.
What followed was shocking and should be re-tweeted, re-posted and shared around Kerry’s constituency as much as possible. Her response to the criticism (one that was often said of Tony Blair with with to George Bush, FYI) was this:
Ouch. Bad move Kerry.
You see, Twitter can sometimes be a game of chess, and lately, Prezza and Kerry have been playing tag-team, a highly facetious and offensive game, sacrificing a pawn here, a bishop there, I think I even spied a risky rook move!
But oh how things can change in an instant. Kerry my dear, you just lost your Queen. (Ed: The imagery is delicious!)
KeepRightOnline swiftly took it hard and fast to @KerryMP (Ed: Imagery not so delicious here) and demanded and explanation for what she had said. Did I mention gender in my tweet? Have I not been highly supportive of women in politics. Here, here and here? (Ed: And here, and here, thanks Kerry!)
So what’s the game, Kerry? Playing reactionary demagogue finally caught up with you?
So with a swift flurry of moves, as depicted above, KeepRightOnline removed the Queen, the bishops and a knight from the board. All that’s left- the swollen, bloated King – too big to move more than one space at a time- and nothing without his puppet mouthpiece. Ladies and gentleman, share this around. #sackkerrymp
John Prescott. Why, universe? Why?
Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
A lot of people have questioned over the past few weeks, my unrelenting retorts to @JohnPrescott, one Mr. Blair’s former lackie, and now Commander-in-Chief of Labour’s Online Army of Deception. With his trusty padawan, @KerryMP and plenty of help, I’m sure- Prezza has declared himself the “King of Twitter” and challenged various people (who wouldn’t be seen dead around him) to “Twitter debates” and other blogging banter.
It’s by no means statesman-like behaviour from the former First Secretary of State, as John attempts to goad political opponents into non-debates and claims victory through non-participation of the wiser party. Unfortunately, John- some people have day jobs. I wonder what the people of your constituency would think to know all you do all day long is sit at the laptop or blackberry thinking of tenuous and childish ways to try and destablise your foes? If I were a constituent of Hull East, I’d sooner vote Socialist Worker’s Party than for this twat twitterer. (Ed: Uh… really?)
John’s recent tirades have been against David Cameron, Andrew Lansley, Daniel Hannan and George Osborne, and his activities on the shabby, “GoFourth.co.uk” are funded centrally by the Labour Party. So what has he achieved? Well, a quick look at the UK Polling Report average polling figures puts the Tories squarely on 42 points, the Lib Dems on 19 and Labour on a measly 27. Good job, John! That’s a mighty fine use of time.
Finally, I’d like to pass comment on how Prescott is actually more likely worsening the situation for the Labour Party.
No one even knows who’s leading the Party and the country currently, with Mandelson vying for power, Harperson looking to purge Labour of all men and Miliband twiddling his schoolboy-like moustache in the wings. John’s emergence from the murky depths of anonymity have further blurred the lines between who is really the driving force in this farce of a government. His negative and tactless spin further implicates Labour in their negative campaigning ways- and his baseless accusations will only firm up what the public already know. Labour STILL isn’t working- and nor should Prezza be.