The leader of Britain’s conservative Tory Party David Cameron has unveiled “webcameron.org.uk,” a new website that seeks to integrate video and text blogging tools similar to those offered by YouTube, Blogger and flickr, and social networking tools along the lines of MySpace, with politics.
John McCain guest blogged the launch of the new service.
The initiative is “designed to make the Tories one of the most technologically progressive parties in Europe,” the Guardian newspaper reported.
The site has some good ideas and is worth checking out.
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David Cameron is an incredibly intelligent politician and really is very much in tune with people want in their leaders and how to connect to community. He’s strangly natural at being hip: he’s friends with the guy from Coldplay (who oddly re-recorded the vocals to a song to be about him) and I remember Billy Bragg talking about how strange it is that the leader of the Tories says his favorite album is The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead”. You’re seeing a lot there working for the Conservatives that is working for some Democrats here, like in Deval’s campaign: they’re gaining support from people who disagree on the issues but appreciate vision and leadership and inclusion. Labour are in real trouble next year between Blair-fatigue and Cameron’s revitalization of the Conservatives.