I'm Glad Matthew Taylor is leaving...
....because he is talking rubbish.
In this interview the current Downing Street Policy Guru claims that the Internet is fuelling a crisis in politics. Absolute crud. The internet is doing a great job of exposing the failures within our political system, highlighting Spin, exposing duplicity and, with sites like ConservativeHome, making sure that the voice of ordinary people are heard within the establishment as well as ensuring that those voices are given weight.
Yes the internet is challenging politics in a way that it has never been challenged before, but that is a good thing. If our politicians are unable to respond to that challenge then they are fuelling their own crisis.
The danger of Matthew Taylor's comments is that because there is discomfort with the challenge that the Internet is creating New Labour's instinctive reaction will be to regulate instead of face the challenge.
In this interview the current Downing Street Policy Guru claims that the Internet is fuelling a crisis in politics. Absolute crud. The internet is doing a great job of exposing the failures within our political system, highlighting Spin, exposing duplicity and, with sites like ConservativeHome, making sure that the voice of ordinary people are heard within the establishment as well as ensuring that those voices are given weight.
Yes the internet is challenging politics in a way that it has never been challenged before, but that is a good thing. If our politicians are unable to respond to that challenge then they are fuelling their own crisis.
The danger of Matthew Taylor's comments is that because there is discomfort with the challenge that the Internet is creating New Labour's instinctive reaction will be to regulate instead of face the challenge.
Labels: Matthew Taylor, New Labour
posted by Martin Curtis at 1:55 PM
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