With the general election looming I thought I would check our candidates web presence. If anyone spots anything I missed please let me know.With the internet supposedly a major factor in this election some of the candidates failure to grapple with it at all is pretty incredible.
Thanet North
Roger Gale Conservative, last MP.
Website http://www.rogergale.com/
Ability to comment; none.
Michael Britton Labour
Website; none.
Presence on party site; none.
Laura Murphy, Liberal Democrat
Website; none.
Presence on party site http://www.libdems.org.uk/people_detail.aspx?name=Laura_Murphy&pPK=849cebcc-6334-431d-b9a7-65c8a0bff0a0
Rosamund Parker UKIP
Website but without any content about candidate; http://www.rosamundparker.co.uk/
Ability to comment http://www.rosamundparker.co.uk/?page_id=2
Jim Dent English Democrats
Website; none.
Presence on party site; none.
Thanet South
Stephen Ladyman Labour, last MP
Website http://www.stephenladyman.info/
Ability to comment http://www.stephenladyman.info/ft_have_your_say_f10d7a59-ba0e-2054-e1a5-a819cdee611a (Only members of The Labour Party can comment here, so no one has for about a year.)
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=390010120438
Laura Sandys Conservative
Website http://www.voteforlaura.org.uk/
Ability to comment; none.
Tim Garbutt Independent (I am not sure he is a registered candidate yet)
Website and ability to comment http://lovekentloveramsgate.blogspot.com/
Trevor Shonk UKIP
Website; none.
Presence on party site; none.
Peter Bucklitsch Liberal Democrat
Website; none.
Presence on party site http://www.libdems.org.uk/parliamentary_candidates_detail.aspx?name=Peter_Bucklitsch&pPK=5f985397-2dd8-44d7-aec8-9e5189577fb6
The polls are swinging about a bit, but have been predicting a hung parliament for some time see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm
Oh I also meant to mention that both Laura and Steve have feeds on their sites and both have got them slightly wrongly organised so only some of their new information actually feeds.
As a floating voter my estimation of the different parties goes up and down like a yoyo, the following from today is an example not a final judgment.
Labour up as Brown admits mistake.
Conservatives down as I am pretty sure they would have been leaning on Labour at the time for more deregulation of the banks, not less, so a silly one to lay into Brown about.
Lib Dems down for stupid mistake over tax threshold in manifesto.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.