Blair's "Big Conversation"

From the UK's "Mail on Sunday":

"Tony Blair's attempt to censor a Labour Party survey to find out what people think of him has backfired with a deluge of e-mails that can be seen on the Internet.

The Prime Minister launched a polling campaign called Big Conversation in December in response to claims that he had lost touch with public opinion. Voters were invited to send their views, though they are censored before being posted on Labour's website, bigconversation.org.

But the move has blown in his face after thousands of people sent their views to an almost identically named website, thebigconversation.org, set up by businessman Jamie Roy two years ago"

For some reason, I find this rather amusing. Here's a direct link to the "unofficial" site's Tony & Labour forum.

we are. And the issues look the same. Privatization of public services, college fees, immigration, and IRAQ. Sounds as if Tony, like Bush, is losing a lot of his core constituency.

The real irony though is that Bush and Blair's respective core constituencies are traditionally poles apart.