Ruh Oh!

Revealed: Labour's Big Conversation is a fix:

Labour's new initiative to listen to voters, The Big Conversation, appears to be a big con: a Telegraph investigation has revealed that party officials have handpicked contributors - and have then edited out their negative comments.

The disclosure will be an embarrassment for Tony Blair, who launched the exercise on Friday, saying it was proof that the Government was listening to the people of Britain.

The Prime Minister called for "an honest and serious debate about the future", and urged voters to text or e-mail their views to a special website, www.bigconversation.org.uk.

The Telegraph discovered yesterday, however, that many of the stories on the website were crafted by Labour officials who interviewed carefully selected individuals known to be broadly sympathetic to Labour - and then cut out any negative comments.

What is it with people in the Left that gives 'em an almighty hankering for "dialogue"? Er, well shaped dialogue, that is.

Also, it's further evidence that just because you can do it on the Internet, doesn't mean it's worth doing.