Just over two years ago I joined the Grüne in Germany. My reasons at the time I outlined here. But how has the experience been so far? Reporting about it has been largely absent from my blog and I only
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Tag: Party Politics
Why I’m leaving the Labour Party, and joining the Grüne in Germany
I’m an intensely political person and it has been that way for a long time. I joined the Labour Party in the UK as a 16 year old, before I was even old enough to vote. This means I have
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Swivel eyed loons, party membership and post democracy
So Tory Andrew Feldman may or may not have said that some of the party’s members are “swivel-eyed loons”. I am not especially bothered whether he said it or not, because as far as I am concerned it is right.
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The decline cycle of party politics
So former TV presenter Gloria De Piero has set out to examine why people hate MPs. Steven Fielding traces a long history of this, and says the problem is nothing new, although its scale may be. But the issues De
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Behaving in politics as if we were normal people – “prefigurative action”
It is perhaps human to think that things were always finer in the past. Where politicians were honest and behaved as statesmen, rather than being weak and populist and bending to every whim of the news agenda. But what has
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Why a change of generation is not going to make politicians’ net comms more interesting
In a variety of different ways I’ve been working with politicians on the net for more than a decade now. At one level it’s fine work – everyone knows the future is going to be online, right? It’s cheaper to
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