Exactly one year ago yesterday, staff in Conservative HQ used an official Twitter account to mock suggestions that the UK had not turned the corner on unemployment. With new stats showing joblessness at a 17 year high, youth unemployment breaking the million barrier and the dole queue growing by 129,000 in the last quarter, to [...]
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Macrory meltdown: Tory head of press proves David Cameron right with bizarre Twitter tirade
The Labour Party has inflicted some some pretty impressive wounds on itself over the last three years but it is clear now that these are eclipsed by the Ashcroft saga. If Scrapbook was a Conservative activist he would be spitting feathers and it seems one of their number finally lost patience this week, causing a [...]
David Cameron's swearing was no gaffe
UPDATE: Oh, dear. This little bit of spin has gone down like a pint of sick with some non-Cameroons. In an interview on Absolute (formerly Virgin) Radio this morning David Cameron indulged in a bit of bar room vernacular. When asked whether he used Twitter, he responded: Politicians do have to think about what we [...]
