Last I looked, it was against OFTEL regulations (maybe OFCOM has different ideas) to phone someone up and play a recorded message at them unless they'd explicitly and specifically opted in.
I remember this in the context of Tango having the bright idea of instead phoning public call boxes and playing an advertisement at them — OFTEL reluctantly admitted this was allowed, but asked that Tango cease and desist in order to save them the hassle of banning it. (-8
I can see this gimmick backfiring extremely badly. "They claimed the scheme, inspired by hi-tech polling used by the Democrats in the US, had been favourably received by half of those targeted in pilots featuring the voice of the former party leader Lord Ashdown.", indeed? I wonder how "favourably"; I note they don't state how incandescent with outrage the other half were.
Certainly, I'm very cross with the LibDems right now for a variety of reasons, many a little more substantive than that. Can we have an SNP candidate in Cambridge, please?
Interesting that they didn't choose someone more recent than Paddy to represent them; the last charismatic LibDem leader?
While the party is disorganised and has its fair share of unprincipled opportunists, there are lots of LibDems who I personally admire. David Howarth is one of them.
You forgot Charlie. We wouldn't be tanking at the polls with him still there; people seemed to like him for the right reasons. Also, the direction he was taking the party was much more to my liking than what Clegg and his mysterious besuited friends have in mind (or, come to think of it, where we'd be with the appalling Huhne at the helm). All I can say is good on Adrian Sanders for displaying his pugilistic skills.
I liked Charles Kennedy a lot, but I couldn't imagine him as a future Prime Minister. Nor anyone since. Paddy Ashdown I could very nearly picture in the rôle at a pinch.
I think Shirley Williams is their only truly high-calibre statesman. )-8
Hang on, it was the SNP who started all this with their "Hi, I'm Sean Connery" phone calls (about which the Scottish Lib Dems submitted a successful complaint...)
Speaking from a professional perspective, I really don't like their policy where Councils no longer control their own revenue. So much for devolution. To Edinburgh but no further, it turns out. They may also have confused "spending money we haven't got" with being left-wing, but let's wait and see how that works out, for now.
Currently, I live in John Major's old constituency; the Conservatives will inevitably win there, so much so that I didn't bother with a postal or proxy vote when I was out of the country on election day in 2001.
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I remember this in the context of Tango having the bright idea of instead phoning public call boxes and playing an advertisement at them — OFTEL reluctantly admitted this was allowed, but asked that Tango cease and desist in order to save them the hassle of banning it. (-8
I can see this gimmick backfiring extremely badly. "They claimed the scheme, inspired by hi-tech polling used by the Democrats in the US, had been favourably received by half of those targeted in pilots featuring the voice of the former party leader Lord Ashdown.", indeed? I wonder how "favourably"; I note they don't state how incandescent with outrage the other half were.
Certainly, I'm very cross with the LibDems right now for a variety of reasons, many a little more substantive than that. Can we have an SNP candidate in Cambridge, please?
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While the party is disorganised and has its fair share of unprincipled opportunists, there are lots of LibDems who I personally admire. David Howarth is one of them.
What would you do with an SNP candidate?
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You forgot Charlie. We wouldn't be tanking at the polls with him still there; people seemed to like him for the right reasons. Also, the direction he was taking the party was much more to my liking than what Clegg and his mysterious besuited friends have in mind (or, come to think of it, where we'd be with the appalling Huhne at the helm). All I can say is good on Adrian Sanders for displaying his pugilistic skills.
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I think Shirley Williams is their only truly high-calibre statesman. )-8
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Currently, I live in John Major's old constituency; the Conservatives will inevitably win there, so much so that I didn't bother with a postal or proxy vote when I was out of the country on election day in 2001.