'David Cameron has ordered Conservative candidates to clear their remarks made on the social networking site Twitter with head office. Very clearly, this undermines the only commendable thing about Twitter — its immediacy and spontaneity'
'Cameron is presumably worried that his constrained candidates will use Twitter for the occasional right-wing spasm, such as “I hate homos!” or “Round up the gypos!” or “Why can’t we lower taxes?”
'The Tory leader is not a great fan of Twitter and once said during a radio interview “too many Tweets might make a ****”, for which he had to apologise — although it seems to me the only salient and useful point he has made in the past two years'
Expediency trumps morality in Terry’s game of charades | Rod Liddle - Times Online
