Sssh, us Tory bloggers are planning something!

by Chris | 3 Feb 2010 | 7 Comments

tory-bloggersLast night I was a part of a select group of Tory bloggers invited to a drinks party. A great amount of free booze was drunk, a lot of chatting went on, and plenty of fun was had. There were as many differing views as bloggers, and I very much enjoyed meeting in person and chatting to so many.

Just a few of those I had a chance to talk to (in no particular order):

One common thread that ran through all of our discussions was that even as much as we were Conervatives, we wouldn’t say anything just because we were told to. We differed on many issues, but all want to get rid of Labour and rescue this country.

We even got a brief speech from Party Chairman Eric Pickles, where he said the line that has made it all over the internet now:

This is going to one of the nastiest, most brutal election campaigns in recent history. And that’s where you come in: for rebuttal

Of course, this line has been jumped on a deliberately misquoted by Labour, not least by their “Twitter Tsar” Kerry McCarthy. Alongside even more ridiculous claims, such as bloggers will be getting 7am briefing emails and be expected to parrot them – despite nothing of the sort ever being mentioned. In fact, the opposite was true – Tory bloggers were encouraged to continue being independent. Only Labour needs to control everything from the center; the Conservative Party is happy for us to continue as we are, writing what we want and as we think.

Yes we spent all last night making secret plans, rather than enjoying the free booze and good company. Right.

Categories: Blogging

7 Comments »

  • Mike Rouse said:

    Hey, don’t forget me ;-)

    # 4 February 2010 at 12:55 am
  • Ollie Cromwell said:

    Was I really there Chris? When I read Will Straw’s post I thought I must have been at a different party.

    # 4 February 2010 at 7:31 am
  • Chris (author) said:

    Mike, I did say it was just a few of those I got to speak to!

    Consider yourself added now! ;)

    # 4 February 2010 at 8:39 am
  • Chris (author) said:

    Ollie, I think the Lefties are indulging in some wishful thinking. Though one can but wonder what they get up to when they meet if they can’t believe that we weren’t planning some sort of smear campaign!

    # 4 February 2010 at 8:43 am
  • Tory Aardvark said:

    Can you remind me what secret plans we made, only I had a few too many Peronis and too many laughs with interesting people.

    I did check on left foot in my mouth but there are only vague smears and lies about the bloggers conspiracy.

    # 5 February 2010 at 2:14 pm
  • David (Yuo can call me D) said:

    Yay! Group Hug! Can’t wait to repeal the hunting ban eh Tarquin? Snarf Snarf Snarf! Group Hug! Rah. Yeah.

    # 6 February 2010 at 12:19 am
  • The Blue Idea » After less than a week, this is already becoming a dirty election said:

    [...] to turn dirty. But I didn’t expect it to happen so soon. It is important that we as bloggers rebutt the [...]

    # 11 April 2010 at 9:26 pm

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