Comments on: The best political predictions are the ones that no one checks up on afterwards http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503 Nick Barlow's blog Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Brooke http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503&cpage=1#comment-245616 Chris Brooke Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:35:06 +0000 http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503#comment-245616 Sorry–I tried to post this link earlier, but it didn’t seem to appear:

http://www.totalpolitics.com/print/22763/blogger-profile-hopi-sen.thtml

]]> By: Nick http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503&cpage=1#comment-245615 Nick Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:35:02 +0000 http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503#comment-245615 I think UKIP might or could fit the ‘insurgent’ part of it – a populist revolt against the status quo – but I don’t think they’re at all internet driven. At least, I’ve not noticed that they use it any differently from the other parties.

]]> By: Nick http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503&cpage=1#comment-245614 Nick Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:16:37 +0000 http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503#comment-245614 Ah – I knew he was, but I wasn’t 100% sure he was happy it being known publicly, so didn’t want to out him, just in case.

]]> By: Chris Brooke http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503&cpage=1#comment-245608 Chris Brooke Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:41:04 +0000 http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503#comment-245608 British Spin is (was) Hopi Sen, which is something he has ‘fessed up to over here.

]]> By: Hywel http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503&cpage=1#comment-245607 Hywel Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:10:05 +0000 http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2503#comment-245607 Could you not argue that either UKIP, or less credibly the BNP, have partly fulfilled this prediction? Much of the BNP’s promotion and evangelism work was/is done through the net

Certainly there has been growth in the support for non-big 3 political parties since the new millenium

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