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Election blogging
April 5th, 2005
Unless you’re a) not in the UK or b) have been hiding under a rock for the last 24 hours, you’ll have heard the announcements that Tony Blair has been to the Palace and the General Election is underway. Cue a month of wall-to-wall political coverage in the media, and a tidal wave of apathy from the British electorate.
This is the first General Election where blogs have been around to play a part, and it’s going to be fascinating to see if this time it’s a blog that breaks a Jennifer’s Ear story. If it does, then chances are you’ll hear about it through the 2005 General Election blog, the brainchild of Nick Barlow and to which I’ll be contributing.
The major parties seem to be getting on the webfeed bandwagon, with the notable exception of Labour - here are links to the Conservative and LibDem feeds. Of the minor parties, only Respect have a feed - Veritas, UKIP, the Green Party, the SNP and Plaid Cymru don’t seem to have got around to it yet. And I didn’t bother checking the BNP, before anyone asks.
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The BNP doesn’t have one, I checked. They’ve also recently had their press releases removed from Google News.