NuLab on YouTube
I've just discovered that New Labour has launched a channel on YouTube. You can see it here. As you'd expect, it's a collection of videos by the most loyal of the NuLab junta and it's full of patronising, gut churning guff about how fantastic they've been over the last ten years (for those with a strong stomach, I recommend the contributions from Patricia Hewitt and Hazel Blears). Strangely enough, despite searching thoroughly, I couldn't find any contributions from Margaret Beckett or Des Browne explaining the successes in British foreign policy. I was perplexed by this because I would have thought that they'd have wanted to tell everyone about introducing freedom, stability and democracy in Iraq and, indeed, the whole region which is now so much safer than it was ten years ago. Anyway, I left a polite comment asking this very question (no sign of it yet). The other thing I noticed is that judging by the ratings system YouTube uses (the little red stars), their videos are nowhere near as popular as, say, mine which were mostly taken at demonstrations against Blair's wars.
The comments I've read so far on the channel (or rather on Tony Blair's contribution on the front page) are mixed but judging by some of them I wouldn't be surprised if the comment feature gets disabled in the future. From experience I know just how murky YouTube comment threads can get. With the drubbing New Labour is likely to get in the coming elections, it will be interesting to hear what (if anything) these party stalwarts will have to say.
Oh god it just gets worse, I
Oh god it just gets worse, I blogged about this earlier today and it was painful watching Blair on it but have just checked out the other entries. They are almost insanely bad! A few of them look like people trying to look relaxed and not keep thinking at the gun just off screen telling them what to say...! Bonkers stuff and a really bad idea from the Nu Labour pr/communications department.
From our 'YouTube'
From our 'YouTube' page:
Labour has only been in government for four short periods of the 20th century and has helped foment six wars in the past ten years alone. However its achievements have not only revolutionised the lives of the British people with an unprecedented level of state intrusion, but also the lives of 26 million ordinary Iraqis that didn’t know what real democracy was until we started dropping bombs on their homes. The lack of values Labour stands for today are those which have misguided it throughout its short existence: social injustice, strong community tax and the strong value of saying "values", our reward for your hard work, ministerial indecency and the abolition of your rights matched only by the irresponsible use of taxpayers’ money on valueless initiatives.
NLPMMGT
Blimey, strong stomach?ÂÂ
Blimey, strong stomach? I'm off my food for the rest of the day now.
But isn't this going to become the same lame-duckery as the Downing Street e-petition has become (i.,e. when people say something New Labour don't want to hear, the concept will fade away quicker than one would have thought possible?).
TT.
I watched the intro one from
I watched the intro one from our Dear Leader, but after seeing the "delights" they've got listed on their site, I just couldn't force myself to undergo any more. If I had, my laptop would've ended up going through my window after being smashed into a thousand pieces!
How do they expect us to watch this rubbish? "Patricia Hewitt discusses Labour's NHS achievements"? Stalin would be proud! "Tony McNulty discusses the Respect Agenda"? How can these lot say anything about respect? It's kinda difficult to respect a bunch of lying, corrupt, war-mongering, power-crazed, freedom-hating bastards!
Life is like a box of chocolates: too much makes you sick (and so does stuff like this)...
Peter Hain's contribution to
Peter Hain's contribution to the YouTube experiment was to remind us all that the "IRA war" was over and that "they" (the IRA) have laid down their weapons. So that's how they got Paisley to climb down then.
Blue Labour on Your
Blue Labour on Your Tube?
Here's some other crackers:
http://1820.org.uk/2007/03/question_time_220207.shtml
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h5PG16p-JLc
I see also Unionist smears are really kicking in: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1315776.0.0.php though not sure a cuddle on a couch will damage the man who looks like he's put Lord Levy in the dock?
Davide, Maybe there has been
Davide,
Maybe there has been some added interest sice your post, but the numbers for the Tony Blair intro now compare with those on your site.
The big hitter seems to be George Galloway with his evidence for the US Senate seen by 132,000 in the four minute version and by 40,000 in the full version over 50 minutes.
Maybe most of this audience is in the US. But this could be a large problem for Labour in using YouTube for discussion. Most US opinion is against the war, as it is in the UK. The Democrats are represented both in the Senate and on YouTube and they contribute to a context in which Labour seems strange.
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How hideous. No wonderÂÂ
How hideous. No wonder thousands of us are campaigning forJohn McDonnell. Come in New Labour, your time is up.......
Hi Will, I had a feeling
Hi Will,
I had a feeling that would happen once it got noticed. I've also spotted that they've frantically been deleting the most critical comments and not exactly replying to any so it's not really discussion they're looking for on YouTube but rather a place to put their propaganda. I doubt New Labour's presence on YouTube will affect their poll ratings one way or another. I just thought it was amusing after watching a few of the videos.
I'm not surprised George Galloway's confrontation with the US Senate gets so many hits. It was a seminal moment in political TV and absolutely hilarious.
indeed i see my comment
indeed i see my comment complaining about the lack of legal training of community support officers has been removed. !!! all i did was mention they have an often poor grasp of the law citing my own experience when one of them at kings cross station told me to put away my camera i was looking at photographs on because using cameras in stations was illegal. if the govt is afraid of such restrained criticism they don't deserve to have their jobs.
i see my comment complaining
i see my comment complaining about the lack of legal training of community support officers has been removed.
Hey, you should be so lucky; they wouldn't even show mine! see above.
Is Blair's hissyfit over the Saddam hanging on there?
Do the Nu-Lab gurus really, really, really think that posting their crappy videos is going to make them appear "in touch" and "trendy" when you can download stuff like this?
I wonder how many critical questions they've censored though?
Am I wrong? There was this
Am I wrong? There was this thing called " the great conversation", then there was this site when you could sign a petition and now a multi-media thingy.
They all die, because nobody really, truly, likes NuLabour but a fool. They fail because there can be no serious debate with NuLabour, so a comments facility soon collapses.
Anonymous - is taking
Anonymous - is taking photos inside railway stations really illegal? Do you happen to know byè virtue of which law or bye-law?
PS - do you remember how, thirty years ago or so, we used to tut disapprovingly when we read about the Soviets stopping western tourists taking photos of trains, stations, etc....?
taking photographs in a
taking photographs in a railway station is NOT illegal. i wasn't taking photos anyway, i was copying photographs from my camera to laptop but even if i was i was at kings cross station and i see that its run by network rail who permit photography within the station, there's a section on their website about this. i actually spoke to my lawyer about this who advised me that the community police moron who told me had been breaking the law by obstructing me saying the behaviour was unlawful.
It is illegal in
It is illegal in Uzbekistan. Maybe he was lost.
Craig
Well, I guess if they are
Well, I guess if they are deleting comments on YouTube, this little op/ed gem re Poodle Blair's latest foreign policy triumph will fit better here. Enjoy!
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/129948-Two-Faced+Tony+Turns+On+Tehran
Well, I guess if they are
Well, I guess if they are deleting comments on YouTube, this little op/ed gem re Poodle Blair's latest foreign policy triumph will fit better here. Enjoy!
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/129948-Two-Faced+Tony+Turns+On+Tehran
Found this at above site
Found this at above site -----
In These Times
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:06 EST
From an interview published in January, 2003
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka "Christians," and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or "PPs."
To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!
( KURT VONNEGUT )