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“Irritable” Alastair and his obsession with shallow Dave

Alastair Campbell, self-confessed irritable obsessive, finally gets the digital bug. As he points out in his latest post on LabourList.org:

“At the Hutton Inquiry in 2003, some of the conspiracy theorists imagined there was some great mystery to the fact there were no emails directly sent by me. That was because I never sent any. I used to scribble out notes on print outs and my poor PA would have to reply for me. I know, I know, not exactly cutting edge, but there we are.

“So I am conscious of catching up from a rear position as I seek to embrace all this. I have joined John Prescott onboard the virtual battle bus that the campaign we launched last year, Go Fourth, is becoming. He, his son David and Mark Bennett, who has worked for me in and out of Downing Street, have finally got me signed up to Facebook. Mark likes to say that the population of Facebook is two and a half times bigger than that of the UK. And it felt like a foreign country the first few days as I attempted to navigate my way around it. But I have enjoyed some of the exchanges and debates that kick off on there, also the generally hopeful and optimistic nature of a lot of the contributions. It is always nice to bump into people who dislike the idea of a Tory government under Dave as much as I do.”

Bit more chummy than Lord Mandelson perhaps? Well, you can find more of the same, as well as a healthy line in rapid rebuttal, here.

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