It’s true that Labour supporters/MPs/Activists vastly outnumber their Tory equivalents on Twitter but the tone and content of their tweets is nothing short of aggressive bullying. Maybe that’s going too far, but in a few cases it’s not.

The majority of Labour tweeters tend to be slamming David Cameron’s policies or appearance, attacking Tories left, right and centre or stating how they’re not fit to form a government. Apart from the odd ‘I love Harriet Harman and Polly Toynbee’ tweet, I ask you to find a tweet from BevaniteEllie that is applauding Labour policies or commenting on great members of their political party, without attacking the Tories.

I picked on BevaniteEllie as she is one of the most extreme; I have nothing against her and she is entitled to her opinion but I’m a fan of positive politics. People aren’t interested in politics when everyone’s squabbling around. You choose to vote for someone because of their policy, then someone from another party shouts it down, this goes on and on and nobody knows what to believe, they think nothing will work and they don’t bother voting.

Photoshopping a picture of David Cameron hundreds of times with childish, humourless slogans next to it will only impress people of the same political ilk, other people just think ‘childish twats’.

That’s one of the reasons that holding the Twitter monopoly has done Labour more harm than good. Because the majority of people on there support Labour, petty bitching about the Tories earns you a lot of respect from fellow Labour tweeters.

However, Labour have had some positive twitterings. The #WeLoveTheNHS and #ChangeWeSee trends are certainly positive, but when the post is ‘Tories will kill off sick people #welovethenhs’ or ‘Cameron’s face is smooth as a baby’s bottom #ChangeWeSee’, it doesn’t quite work.

Be positive, people! Politics is much more interesting when you can have a rational debate. Childishness loses votes.

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