Comments on: Will bloggers win the next Election?

By: Sally Roberts

Sally Roberts — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:39:35 +0000

The other “Sally” makes an interesting point. I think “she” has it slightly wrong however. What most people want is to have their opinions heard and noted – whether or not people choose to agree with them. In any event, what IS “power”? There are about seven or eight different types of power and legislative or authoritative power is only one of those types. Personal power is something which anyone can choose to develop (although the skills for doing so need to be learned) and that power can be used for good or ill. An example of power used for ill would be a blogger who went around impersonating others, particularly those whom they might want to discredit.
Power used for good would be to merely pass one’s thoughts around and allow others to take or leave as much as they wished of them….

By: Happyness Stan

Happyness Stan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:33:40 +0000

Neither bloggers nor blogging will make any notable difference to the result of the next election.

However this does not in any way mean that the internet in general or blogging in particular is not having an ever more potent effect on the population at large.

For the first time the ordinary people have a voice, but far more importantly that voice is being heard by the same types of people.

For the first time in our history the ordinary person is finding that the MSM is not public opinion, and public opinion is not the MSM. They can see that the majority think very much as they do. They see the same things, and generally react in the same way. That way often being completely opposite to the media invented stereo typical Labour,Liberal or Conservative voter. We see the same things, and react in the same ways. Our conclusions may differ, but not half as much as we have been told they do.

We see for the first time that party politics is simply a method of dividing and ruling the public. This has had a very important impact on how the once party politically divided now see their own parties. Unthinking trust has all but evaporated in party politics and the media that has long since dishonestly sustained and perpetuated it.

Now this would not matter so much if those who use political blogging sites either never talked to anyone else, or where not generally involved in active politics. However a disproportionate amount of them very much are, or used to be so. The word gets around, and then gets around some more.

I dont doubt that if it where not for the internet Cameron would have an even bigger lead then he currently does, simply because now we can progressively more see that only a moron or someone missing several important senses would now trust the word of any politicians or their political parties as far as they can spit the lot of them.

By: Frugal Dougal

Frugal Dougal — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:05:36 +0000

Agree: bloggers won’t win the election, but they’ll help neutralise the sinister effect that the Suns, Mirrors etc used to have on elections.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:27:32 +0000

The Left are better organised at blogging. I dont include the dreadful Twitter Tsar Kerry McCarthy. She has zero credibility and less than zero influence.

By: Derek Hughes

Derek Hughes — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:25:52 +0000

Must say some I find very impressive on TV. I love iain Dale, a true quiet man of British politics who should be in the next Parliament). I also think Shane greer is superb.

I disagree on Tory bear. he comes across as a little boy trying to be a man. Less of him methinks!!!!

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:23:56 +0000

I think many blogs are a vehicle for the self indulgence of wannabe decision makers who will never get power, hence a blog is the closest they come to power!

By: Tory Leader

Tory Leader — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:22:59 +0000

Totally agree with this.

Too many bloggers out there think they are gods gift to blogging, then you see they have 120 twitter followers and 80 facebook fans. That aint influence.