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.
What do Stephen Fry, Tory Bear and Oprah have in common?
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
They’re all set to net a bundle, that’s what. “How?” I hear you ask. Well, it seems our friends at Twitter are trialling a pay-to-view system for premium account tweets. That’s right, you may soon be paying between £1 and £10 to view the personal musings of the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Ed Balls. (Ed: I’d rather pay to view tweets from Ed Hallam!)
But is this really the most sustainable profit model for Twitter? We know the service is extraordinarily popular, and doesn’t really make any money currently. You’d think ad-revenue would be the way to go, especially with the likes of USocial offering $500,000 to display an ad on Twitter for just 24 hours.
That'll be £3.50 please, guv.
Either way, this editor reckons charging to view is definitely the wrong way to go. It’s not as if they own the patent for creating a website for people to harp on endlessly about their social inadequacies or spout some nonsensical political drivel.
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?
Streeting Tweeting
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
NUS Prez Wes Streeting decided that the best way he’d represent the NUS in the national HE conference in London today would be to insult the city and its inhabitants by saying he ‘really, really hates London’.
Then please, kindly, fuck off.
Labour hack Streeting’s insipid cosiness with the Brown government is unsufferable for many students. I think him insulting the home of 388,000 Higher Education students makes that far worse. Strange. You’d have thought that a man desperate to be elected to Westminster would actually like the city.
Tweet4transparency
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Carter-Ruck’s attempt to cover up the Trafigura report may have backfired ever so slightly. As of this morning, these were the trending topics on Twitter:
Not sure if Trafigura are feeling top of the world this morning.
In case you’re wondering, Menculik Miyabi (’Kidnapping Miyabi’) is an Indonesian comedy film starring a Japanese porn actress called Miyabi. Hence its obvious popularity on Twitter. The Interwebs: still good for two things.
The journey home…
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by RK in Features, United Kingdom
We’ll keep this short and hope to have various pictures and videos up over the next few days. Just a few quick points to mention:
1. Cameron’s speech was awesome.
The epic delivery of this hearty and passionate libertarian speech will surely strike fear into the hearts of those in the Labour Party who felt that DC was ‘all style and no substance’. The man hit all the right notes. #fact.
2. The Guardian trying to paint #cpc09 as some dark and horrific event is contemptible and despicable behaviour.
But what else did you expect?
3. KeepRightOnline’s bash at PartyForChange on Wednesday night will surely go down in conference legend.
…and we’ll do it again next year!
Major shout outs across the week go to (and apologies if we leave anyone out; the memory is slightly hazy)
Owen ‘Change’ Meredith, Sophie ‘Anti-Cheese Confederation’ Fernandes, Michelle ‘On Message’ Donelan, Danni ‘9am Lecture’ Robinson, Oliver ‘End Taxes’ Cooper, Emma ‘VIP’ Carr, Richard ‘Xbox’ Holloway, Edmund ‘Death Penalty’ Kozak, Steven ‘McDonalds’ Dent, Eric ‘The Chairman’ Pickles, Starbuck ‘I’m blue’ Coleman, Andrew ‘Former YC Chair’ Rosindell, Mark ‘Will argue on anything’ Wallace, Donal ‘Backhander’ Blaney, James ‘Two Wine Bottles’ Cleverly, Neil ‘The Tooth’ Cropper, Robert John ‘Why can’t I go in there?’ Tasker, Lauren ‘Blogger-to-be’ McEvatt, Harry ‘Tony Bear’ Cole, Richard ‘Ralph’ Jackson, The Swedes and many, many more…
Conservative Party Conference, Day 0 roundup
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Apologies dear readers, I know you were expecting loads of juicy gossip from here at #cpc09. Unfortunately, it’s been so damn busy that we haven’t had a chance to blog! (Ed: Lies. You’re just too cheap to fork out for wifi.) Here’s a quick round up of where KeepRightOnline has been.
Day 0
Arrived in Manchester around midday with the famous ToryTittleTatler and @ChristianJMay. Not a bad train ride at all. Settled in and headed to the YBF/CF Training event whereby KRO was impressed by the number of new recruits who had come to conference and come to the training. (Ed: Very on message, yawn) The night was swiftly engaged as CF troops were spotted packing out the Font Bar (with a visit from Evan Davies) and the Midland Hotel. It’s safe to say things got very messy after the 5th mudslide. ToryBear was unable to hold himself upright (Ed: What’s new?) and the night was spent chatting with eager activists.
KRO shout outs from Sunday night: Ken Chan, Henry Jamieson (Jamie Henrison), Owen Meredith, Richard ‘Neville’ Jackson, Michael ‘Mr. Chairman’ Rock, Donal Blaney, Neil Cropper, Patrick Sullivan, Michelle Donelan, Danni Robinson, Matthew Robinson, Peter Smallwood, Scott Seaman-Digby, Steven Dent and many more
FYI: Blackberry is being a pain so no pictures quite yet. Probably not such a bad idea.
When KeepRightOnline crashed Prezza's Party…
Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
We took this video! Enjoy the rant.
KeepRightOnline are also offering the chance to win a signed copy of “Prezza” by John Prescott (in both senses!) To enter the prize draw (to which terms and conditions apply*)- just donate £1 to KeepRightOnline using the PayPal donate button to the right. The draw will take place on the 1st of November.
*Terms and Conditions: Winner must be 18 or over and based within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. At least 15 entries must be processed.
Liberal Youth member opposed to homosexuals, is also ageist! (Not necessarily true)
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Alright, alright it’s not as extreme as you first think, but this tweet did make me chuckle.
Liberal Youth General Executive Member Martin Shapland has claimed he’s being hit on at Conference by some ‘drunk gay pensioners’. What’s worse is he thinks he should be immune as he works for an MP? I don’t quite understand it all but it’s safe to say his hashtag, #shouldhappentompsstaff isn’t trending!
Nice one, Shappers.
Twitter Fights and a Living Wage (a response)
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Well known Tweeter @kezdugdale has done the honour of mentioning KeepRightOnline on her blog, in a post entitled, “Twitter Fights and a Living Wage,” following a Twitter discourse we had recently. In her blogpost, she sets out her argument for a ‘living wage’ and argues that the Labour government hasn’t been given enough props for it’s advocation of this interventionism since 1997. I however, feel differently. I’ve issued a full response below, and far from wanting to sound expectant, I have tried to outline why, from experience, I believe the market (not government) knows best, and why those working on a low wage should strive for better, not expect (as a right, as Kez mentions) a bloated salary.
“I thank you for the mention and for the record, I don’t often see a need to resort to, “Oh f**k off.” I don’t debate to insult or debase, I do it because sometimes I genuinely cannot see the rationale behind someone’s stance. This is echoed in your statistics in the post.
I worked in the retail sector for just over 4 years, earning WAY LESS than £7/hr while putting myself through university. Here’s how I see it.
While I didn’t earn any commission in my first job of three years, I learnt the skills and graft needed to move on and up in the company, and did so. With this came ‘keyholder’ responsbilities and with that came a nice little extra in my pay packet every week.
Following this, I managed to apply for another retail position which paid more AND offered commission on top: fantastic times.
Similar applies to the hotel and service sector, having worked in a hotel before, the fact is- if you’re good, you get promoted and you get a lot of tips! While no one should have to RELY upon tips for a living, they should also not expect a basic that they haven’t earned, or that the job doesn’t merit.
If someone had offered me £7.00/hr in my first job, I would have looked at them funny and thought, “Hell, if they’re stupid enough to pay me that, sure!” You can’t exploit the employer in the same way you cannot exploit the employee, and this is precisely what a National Minimum Wage does. It takes away from meritocracy and hard work and like you said, it makes it a RIGHT to receive money that frankly, you might not have earned. As if some places weren’t bad enough for customer service in the first place, you want government to enforce a pay system which will effectively remove employees from having any incentive to work harder or better. I suppose you dislike the ‘bonus culture’ too? Why don’t we all just hand over 100% to government and let it distribute rations and communal housing?
You mention public sector pay, but you forget the perks you get from working in the public sector (pension, job security, clearly defined hours and none of the insecurity of the private sector). Very little risk is associated with public sector jobs, and yet you want to reward them more so than those who graft every day to keep Britain’s economy booming?
It’s a losing battle for you on this one. I don’t want to see anyone being exploited or deprived of opportunity, whereas you DO want to see people rewarded for nothing and businesses penalised for being competitive. Which is why Labour and the United Kingdom are in the state we’re in today.
End of rant! (Thank goodness this isn’t Twitter!)”