Disruptive Proactivity

“Communication is a force for good” says Gordon Brown.

Recently, Labour ran a consultation on policy, and some within the Labour Big Tent processed the documents for CommentOnThis.com which was then linked from the Labour Party internal website for their members.

Apparantly it’s a
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/05/23/pirate-labour-website-is-up-and-running/”>pirate website (insert obligatory Yarrrrrrrr!).

While communications may be a force for good, it’s how you use them that matters. Well designed and independent communications tools (writetothem and similar) can be used by anyone for any purposes.

You may not like what they say, but maybe it’s worth listening to what is being said.
Divergent views are important, and, as the CommentOnThis.com tagline says, “debate is essential”.