Three new anonymous pro-Tory political blogs have popped up in recent weeks. All are rather curious: none carry bylines, and two are so technically similar that they could have been made in the same place. They were introduced to the world by Louise Mensch in a post for ConservativeHome. In fact, Guido Fawkes has suggested that Mensch might know who is behind them:
So are they real? Or astroturf — a Westminster term for something that looks like grassroots but is actually from someone connected to the campaign? I’ve done some digging to find out more.
Publicly Inconvenient
Publicly Inconvenient is a cheerfully designed site, layered with cartoons by Gary Barker. Mensch described it as a ‘good policy blog’. The tag line is ‘for the chaotically incorrect…and the politically disturbed’, which sits alongside a P.J. O’Rourke quote about China, Cuba and communism. The posts are mostly focused on attacking Labour and the SNP. The most recent post from yesterday says that ‘Cadbury wins it for Cameron’, in reference to the Labour PPC who forgot the party’s manifesto.
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