After a number of weeks working with comrade Lee Skevington, the Yeovil Labour Party website is now online in some early form. Feedback is welcome, feel free to leave them on this entry.
Update April 2010: The CLP website has been replaced by the website for the parliamentary candidate Lee Skevington.
I'm tempted to pad out the main page a bit with the history of the founding of the party, and the party's greatest moment, at least in my opinion, the defeat of Churchill in a landslide election leading to the creation of the National Health Service.
But I still need some ideas how to up the level of content across the rest of the website.
Perhaps a bit of Sidney Webb's Clause IV from 1917 (a good year all round):
"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service."
That felt good, once more:
"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service."
Much better than the wishy washy thing we've got at the moment, which let's face it could mean almost anything, there's too much of a tendency to use wishy washy language, we need to get back to more direct and honest language and less of the marketing.
Anyway, probably my favourite part of the website is the blogs section, and hopefully we'll get a few more regular bloggers to help fill it out a bit. Between Lee's talk of Hezbollah, and my talk of the revolution in Venezuela, may be one of the bloggers will talk about topics going on in Yeovil. I suppose I could do a post on setting up a 'Speakers Corner' in Yeovil.
Such openness I believe is critical to our ability to defeat the Liberals and Tories, not only does it show the public that we aren't a monolithic organisation but one made up of individuals, but it also encourages debate and discussion internally, something so many political parties have a problem with these days.