tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25200961.post3024603820440258564..comments2024-03-14T09:50:40.819+00:00Comments on Dr Grumble: Crass, cruel and cravenDr Grumblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417731064007601504noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25200961.post-33924714490048412010-04-12T08:20:24.499+01:002010-04-12T08:20:24.499+01:00Surely the story about targetting patients with ca...Surely the story about targetting patients with cancer cannot be true. <br />***********<br /><br />I do agree but it was still a silly idea because it should have been obvious that this would backfire in just the way it has. It was inevitable that frightened women just diagnosed with cancer would receive this semi-targetted leaflet and that that would reflect badly on those who sent it.Dr Grumblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02459592334604944530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25200961.post-5004659442844442162010-04-12T02:20:25.513+01:002010-04-12T02:20:25.513+01:00Anne Marie
I agree. I reckon the Labour party (or...Anne Marie<br /><br />I agree. I reckon the Labour party (or rather their spammers) might have targetted the breast cancer leaflet to women only. All the parties work hard at "targetting" mailshot material now. I am in a Lib-Dem marginal and get "personalised" (with my name on) electoral spam from the LibDems and Labour. <br /><br />Anyway, armed with an electoral register, it would be easy to target the leaflet to houses with only a woman listed on the electoral roll - which might well include a lot of women over 40. So one could easily imagine two women in their 50s living alone in the same street both getting the leaflet, say. And the parties and their spammers probably "cross reference" the electoral roll with other info as well, so if DOB is on any publicly available database that might be factored in too. Or even just what the canvassers have noted via doorstepping you.<br /><br />The <i>Times</i> article actually says:<br /><br />"[Mailshot organisation] Tangent claims that it specialises in “highly targeted marketing”.<br /><br />The cancer cards are part of a wider postal campaign targeting various groups. Others are aimed at parents whose children attend Sure Start centres, pensioners and the owners of small businesses."<br /><br />Ah, the joys of modern electioneering. I just put the lot straight in the bin.Dr Austhttp://draust.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25200961.post-75390708755262952612010-04-11T22:56:11.388+01:002010-04-11T22:56:11.388+01:00Surely the story about targetting patients with ca...Surely the story about targetting patients with cancer can not be true. How would the have access to this information.<br />It sounds like another non-story like this one:<br />http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/news/NICERespondsToDailyMailStory.jspAnne Marie Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05289974924032448531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25200961.post-89077542256161074702010-04-11T20:51:36.223+01:002010-04-11T20:51:36.223+01:00My analysis is identical, Fox in sox.My analysis is identical, Fox in sox.Dr Grumblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04417731064007601504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25200961.post-15365982218584714112010-04-11T20:47:55.945+01:002010-04-11T20:47:55.945+01:00There is little to choose between labour and torie...There is little to choose between labour and tories on privatisation of the health service. The difference is that the Tories will be more reticent of being seen to promote the companies like mrs Hewitts Cinvin feeding on the NHS. And there will be active opposition from the labour party.<br /><br />So I think that the NHS will be safer with the Tories, paradoxically.<br /><br />The next government will get unpopular very quickly, through cuts and tax rises. If it's a labour or liblab government it will destroy both parties, with the Tories triumphant in the soon to follow election.Fox in soxnoreply@blogger.com