James Graham points to an interesting development with “Rock the vote”. He is asking whether the organisation has become a Tory front. From memory, the guy who set it up was the owner of the Ministry of Sound. I thought he was a Labour supporter but I might be wrong on that. Do you know anything about the organisation?
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Hi Tom,
I was involved in Rock the Vote back in 1996. You’re right – James Palumbo from the Ministry of Sound supported it but the main backing was from the the British record indutry, the BPI.
We lauched it on the House of Commons terrace with DJ Carl Cox, Eddie Izzard, the Teenage Fan Club, Gene and good old Mo.
Radiohead backed it too.
There was also a Rock the Vote national comedy tour with Eddie, Steve Coogan, Harry Hill and Donna McPhail. It was all about raising awareness and getting people registered.
Over 250,000 registered to vote and voting amongst young people increased at the 1997 General Election by 13% on 1992, so it was worth doing.
But I really don’t think “Lord T” or the ‘businesswoman from London’ are going to get the kids to storm the winter palace!
Mr Watson! Mr Watson! Do you have a comment for the Daily Pundit? Will there be a leadership challenge? Will there be a COBRA meeting? Will you be keeping your head down for a day or two?
Keep smiling Tom. It’ll all be forgotten in a day/week/month or two….
Are the BBC (e.g Andrew Marr today), the police, the CPS (loans for lordships), the NHS (four times as many Labour appointees as Tories, Labour (sorry government) quangos (costing the taxpayer £140bn pa), the Smith Insititute (currently under investigation by the Charities Commission), the Prison Service and most unions Labour front organisations? I think we should be told.
What about that rash £100 bet, Tom? Paying up?
Hi Tom, off-topic to this post, but are you aware of the current campaign to get you to honour a £100 bet you made a year ago? http://www.payuptom.com has more info….
It’s all gone very quiet. You on your way to Scotland with a cuddly toy again to call for his resignation?
Is Dominic a tory front organisation?!
You could say that, David. By the way, I loved your appearance on Wolverhampton Politics when you answered a question about Gordon Brown by talking about me for 5 minutes. The listeners must have thought you’d lost your marbles, but I enjoyed it.
Let’s get things in perspective Dominic; you’d just announced your decision to stop blogging inbetween having a pre-recorded totally incoherent rant at Gordon Brown, and I was simply expressing my sadness at you no longer being around to amuse us all with your daily online commentary!
But, glad you reneged on that and are still here (well Prague anyway) to avail us of your political views………
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