Saturday Seven Up

 

At the beginning of the week Oliver Letwin put his foot in his mouth, again, telling Boris Johnson that: “We don’t want more people from Sheffield flying away on cheap holidays”. It looked like a disastrously out of touch gaffe as millions of “squeezed middle” swing voters prepare to go on their cheap annual holiday away from austerity. David Cameron inadvertently provided the perfect rebuttal by flying away on a cheap Ryanair flight. On Thursday this blog’s readers saw him pictured with Sam looking grumpy in a way that fellow cattle class travellers will recognise. On Friday it was front page news around the world…

Political hacks agreed it was the best PR Cameron had got in months. Sceptical media cynics reckoned it was too good to be true and that it was a Downing Street inspired photo-op, BBC and Sky hacks speculated that it was a set-up and even admired the cleverness of the user-generated-content style camera phone shot. Somewhat flattering Craig Oliver’s abilities…

Last week saw 76,061 visitors make 213,679 visits to view 334,914 pages – that is twice as many readers as the New Statesman – we’re Britain’s number one political website. The seven most popular stories were:

• Have They Had a Tiff?
• What’s Kay Trying to Say?
• The Violence of the Left
• The Picture that Launched a Thousand Quips
• Red Ed’s Entrepreneurial Error
• Another Spending Balls Up
• Don’t Tell Letwin

You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…

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