Advice for the Miliband blog
Guido has been on David Miliband's case, mercilessly ribbing the Miliblogger.
The blog should be hosted by the Labour party and the assistant's salary should be paid by the Labour party. Miliband should concentrate on sorting out Defra's serious problems rather than profile raising, partisan propaganda blogging.
My view is slightly different.
I agree that the blog should be hosted by the Labour Party, but for an entirely different reason. I think it is unfair to argue that his current blog is improper. A fairer criticism is that it is too proper. I'd like the blog to be more expansive, more partisan and less departmental.
A typical Miliband entry is this screaming headline:
Progress on Rural Development Funding
The piece was useful and worthy but hardly fulfills the function of reconnecting citizens and politicians. I'd love to see him freed from the stifling constraints of a departmental blog and, say, linked to articles and books that influenced his thinking (as he hints that he will, but doesn't).
If I was Miliband I would be attacking Guido's maths, ie, £300 per month is £62,400 per annum...
Errrr, go to the bottom of the class!
Posted by: jailhouselawyer | 26 Mar 2007 17:18:22
Yep, I think he'd be liberated by not having to be so dull, but even if allowed to escape the strictures of the Civil Service, would he actually be any more interesting?
As for my maths, if the cost of the assistant is £30 an hour than that is equivalent to £62,400.
Where my maths falls down is in understanding how if one is sentenced to life imprisonment for the axe murder of an innocent little old lady you can be out in just over a decade. Errr, go back to jail.
Posted by: Guido Fawkes | 26 Mar 2007 20:20:26