WRITTEN ON December 1st, 2008 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Political engagement

Like it or not, Internet skills will be vital in the UK’s forthcoming General Election. Unless the UK election authorities move very quickly, we’re likely to see a “free for all” which includes substantial influence from overseas “opinion formers”; in a way which would not be allowed in the ordinary UK broadcast or print media. But there should be plenty of entertainment like this 1985 TV clip of Gordon Brown boasting about leaking Conservative government documents: