to wish this bloody election was over and done with to suspect that members of the Conservative party are starting threads on mumsnet to campaign for the general election?

[DuelingFanjo]

Is it just me or does it seem like there are now several threads a day linking to articles or comments about how bad the present government is or how badly the Labour government has handled things or will handle things in the future?

Maybe I'm reading into it all too much but it's so frequent and often so politically biased towards the Conservative party that it appears to be a deliberate campaign. Often these threads are started by the same people and to me it looks like a rather clumsy smear campaign.

Or maybe it's just me? Would be interested to know if anyone else has thought this and also if they find it as irritating as I do.

Just me then!

not just you!

lighten up conspiracy theorist,so what if a political activist posts on an open forum. whooddidoop.mn is open to all you know

actually most people can differentiate political parp from normative posts

just because words pop up on a screen doesnt mean the pliable masses believe em

Conspiracy isn't the word I would use, infact it isn't a word I used.

I wondered if it was annoying anyone else as much as it is me. I find it tedious whatever party it is coming from but I guess Mumsnet is now seen as some kind of political influence.

They all do it. In '97 Labour got caught out paying activists to swamp phone in debates, send letters to the editor and generally shift the media perception of the public mood.

This is not a conspiracy, they admit it, and they don't care that we know.

Guess if the cocksuckingwankers Tories aren't doing it, they soon will be.

Nope, can safely say it's going right over my head. I don't come here for political debate so I take no notice of anything that's leading that way.

maybe that's what I should do - ignore it. It's such a pain.

mn actively courts politicians.so fact the activists may post on mn is no big deal

mn is a brand and it actively has big "names" participating on threads eg politicians,their wife,authors

dont get what the beef is

bignames I don't get bothered by. It's the posts which appear saying 'hey, do you all know that the Labour government have f**d up this that and the other? here's a link to the Telegraph/Mail/Times... ' posted as if there is no agenda when clearly there is.

But it could just be me who finds it mildly irritating and can't wait until it's all over.

LOL,mn has been linking the dm for years pre-election.dm is life blood of mn the faux indignation of i never read it but guess what dm said now...

no political hack necessary to link any of aforementioned papers mn posters spontaneously do so already (on near daily basis)

I would like it all to be over, planning a holiday early May to avoid paying full child price for DS2 who turns two on the 22nd. My parents are coming along but tonight my Dad said oh we can't go the first week in May and miss the election . Nothing should get between me and my holidays !

Very tedious, I agree.

no one compels anyone to log on/read mn.as capable adult you can chose how you engage and interact with politics and mn

gets on your tits?
dont read it then

I suppose my wider question was about how obvious the smear campaigning is.

I'd rather comment on the Politics side of stuff than the "is my dp being a twat" page.

You can choose where you lurk or post on MN and it's all the better for it.

I actually feel that MN is pro Labour so it's just a matter of perspective.

If I was doing a link it would be to the Telegraph because that is the paper I read online, as I am too tight to pay for the paper copy in Belgium...vv expensive.

If you look at the politics page, it seems to be equally split between the why I won't vote Labour and why I won't vote Tory threads. I also find MN pro Labour...and I do get tired of the 'Oh the last Tory Govt was so bad...I blame Thatcher', when actually she was ousted in 1990, and John Major was then PM until 1997.

If these things are happening, like the plans to run down the NHS, or ambulance trusts paying crews for not taking people to hospital, don't you think it needs raising, whichever paper it might be in?

I think it is more that Murdoch is behind Davee C, and thus basically all the papers are behind DC - DM and Torygraph already were - and so, we are all awash with Toryism, and that is the way the narrative is for now. The Sunday Times for example pulled out a one liner from the rubbish Liz Hurley interview and put it on the front page "I love David Cameron". The agenda is clearly set for all the papers and it seeps into threads too. And I just hope that people can see through it.

.........get over it, why does it matter to you? All the parties are the same and resort to the same tricks. Noo Labour are the Kings Of Spin, but that doesn't bother you? Hide the threads - simples

I suppose the transparency gets on my tits, that it's so damn obvious what some posters are doing and that some of them may not be mumsnetters but people whos job it is to go round forums posting smear campaigns. I guess I find it a bit ick.

it's depressing agree with op. if they cared so much surely they should be reading constantly.

why not ask mn hq?

I don't doubt there are Conservative, Lib Dem, Labour activists and journalists all posting things to see what reaction they get.

What they post is either interesting or boring, so treat them accordingly.

I suspect that a many of the Conservative posters are not paid activists as such, as much of the rhetoric doesn't accord with the image the party is trying to project.

david loves you all

Funnily, my perception is that MN is totally Labour-slanted. I get thorougly riled by all the anti-Conservative posting. But I guess we just see what bugs us.