Sunny Hundal of LiberalConspiracy.org has written an interesting piece in The Guardian on the apparent dominance of the Tory party in online politics. Its hard to disagree with his stance - the Tories do appear to have the biggest overt presence in the blogosphere (see Iain Dale, 18 Doughty Street and even the Conservative Party website ) but Sunny offers little in the way of hard evidence to back up his otherwise compelling argument.
Maybe I can help.
Blogging isn't everybody's cup of tea, and not everybody sees the benefit of filming everything and putting it on YouTube, but it is strangely unbelievable that in a time when over 15 million households have an Internet connection, a disturbingly large number of MPs do not even have their own website. I count 95 MPs with no obvious websites (only 23 of these being Conservatives) - roughly equating to nearly 6.5 million voters without a practical means of engaging their elected representatives. Maybe the £10,000 that each MP receives on an annual basis for web funding can go towards rectifying this...
Internet who?
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