Interesting Interactivity, Exciting Communicativity

Peter Watt, the General Secretary of the Labour party, has emailed to inform me of an exciting broadcast which is to take place in a couple of days on New Labour's YouTube channel, Labourvision. Peter Watt informs me: "The Labour Party is always pioneering new ways of communicating - whether through websites, YouTube, podcasts and interactive broadcasts." But not through sentences, apparently; at least, not the non-penological kind. "We want to communicate with people in ways they want through the many channels and media now available to us all," Peter Watt wants to inform me, in a veritable orgasm of choice-oriented communicationality. The excitingness of Monday's broadcast stems from the fact that "Tony Blair will be giving his first ever Labourvision interview to John O'Farrell, the writer and broadcaster". As if that were not exciting enough, "both Tony and John have already filmed clips promoting the interview". Barely giving me time to still my fluttering heart, Peter Watt informs me, in the very same sentence, that the clips can be seen by visiting the Labourvision site.

A whole host of questions have already been sent in "on domestic and international issues, as well as a number of more personal questions about what it is like to be the Prime Minister". It appears that, even after ten years of policy clarification and voter-directional closeness initiatives, there are still some people who do not know what Tony Blair thinks about domestic and international issues, have not heard what a solemn yet lonely privilege it is to be at the top, yet nonetheless wish to forego this blissful ignorance. De gustibus - as with privatisation, ID cards, NHS databases, war and all else which is Tony's idea of a healthy democracy - non disputandum. "It will be up to John O'Farrell which questions he asks", but given the degree of respect which John O'Farrell has shown in the past for the intelligence of Labour's humble ground troops, I am sure Tony will find it a rewarding experience.