Or so says Simon Dickson. He makes a valid point that the tweeting from Hazel Blears, the Minister for Communities, felt a little too eager. The continuing use of the third person was slightly unsettling as well.

Still, it’s only her first day.

Dave notes that her consultative process is limited to a week, and her online activity may be as well. I didn’t get a sense that the tweets had been pre-programmed (after all, as Simon points out, we already have a fairly large sample size to review)

Still, are our British colleagues missing the forest for the trees? They have a PM and two Ministers tweeting, soliciting comment and petitions online, running blogs and pulling back the curtain - at least somewhat.

That’s infinitely more than any other government in the world.

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