Opting In or Out of Politics?

Commiserations to Gordon Brown, who’s certainly taking a battering of late, both in the media and the polls. The poor PM can’t seem to put a foot right. With Labour’s Party Conference commencing tomorrow (Saturday) in Manchester, I have a hunch the accompanying soundtrack will be more Joy Division than Happy Mondays, alas.

I see the Conservatives’ annual ‘love-in’ starts on the 28th in Birmingham and features Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley, no less (see August 29th blog below - that band’s haunting me, I swear!). It will be interesting to see if David Cameron lays delegates in the aisles again with his keynote address – delivered ‘without notes’ as the Tory’s website noted in breathless awe of his 2007 performance.

To paraphrase Frank ‘n Furter in Rocky Horror, I for one am shivering in antici…..pation.

With debate in DM circles raging over the Walport Report and Electoral Roll (ER) access, I wonder what our political masters would think about us applying the same ‘opt out’ rules to their marketing activities? I ask you: In the run-up to the next election, will our political masters be direct mailing every name on the ER repeatedly for political propaganda purposes? You bet.

(Sigh). I guess punters don’t call it ‘junk mail’ for nothing.