Election Spin Blog
Monitoring the spin of political parties and other interests.

US advisers helped Blair to victory PDF Print E-mail
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Blair was advised by a whole raft of US spin doctors, but unlike the Tories this was kept largely out of the news during the campaign.
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Vote Big Business, Vote Labour PDF Print E-mail
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Spinwatch readers wishing to cast their votes to the best advantage of Big Business may be feeling confused about who to vote for on Thursday. Worry not, Spinwatch presents a guide to the party most favoured by Transnational Corporations.
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Election spin mostly underground PDF Print E-mail
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More evidence that the focus of election spin has moved from the media to less visible direct spin comes from Labour strategists and Weber Shandwick, one of the world's biggest PR companies.
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Fancy voting for a spin doctor? PDF Print E-mail
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Spin doctors standing as parliamentary candidates are being extremely coy about their spin doctoring past. UK elections are increasingly divorced from the voters and take place in a more or less self referential circuit between politicians, spin doctors and journalists.  One facet of this is that spin doctors from both the political and corporate world are increasingly trying to make the transition from manipulating public opinion in the interests of their clients or employers to 'representing' the public.
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Exposed: Tory advisor is ex-tobacco hack and they don't want to discuss it - or even give their name PDF Print E-mail
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If you see today's SpinWatch article you will see that we are exposing the Tory's election advisor, Mark Textor,  as having been a key consultant to the tobacco industry. When SpinWatch phoned up the Tory central office last week to find out what exactly it was that Mark Textor did for the Tories, this was the response.

Now, we know that Michael Howard has new glasses, we know that the Tory manifesto is written in soft hand-writing that is designed to appeal to the voters, and we know that the Tories have told us that they have changed radically from the days of Maggie Thatcher.

So are we witnessing a new dawn, the birth of the ever-so-helpful Tory press-spokesperson?

I don't think so.
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