A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left. Just for the record: all the views expressed here are entirely personal and do not necessarily represent the positions of any organisations I am a member of.
Labour seems to have sussed that targeted online advertising can reach key groups of voters a lot better than spending £400k on easily graffiti-ed billboards does.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 3:00 pm
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
2 Comments:
Why should the tax payer fund families at all. You shouldn't have kids unless you can afford to keep them and in all honesty if you earn over £31,000 why should the tax payer step in at all.
For Britain to get back on its feet we have got to make some serious changes to our welfare system.
Families are poor in this country because there outgoings are too large relative to their incomes. The biggest outgoing for most families is rent or mortgage. If Labour are so concerned about the welfare of families why did they let the property boom go on for so long.
We can't simply keep on using tax payers money to prop up poor wages. It just made sense at all.
8:48 pm, February 09, 2010
I wonder if Labour will target these £31k+ mums with images of Vera Duckworth. How patronising!
2:50 pm, February 11, 2010
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