Can blogs help to engage the political process?

Labour Home has come in for a fair amount of criticism in recent days.

Suny Hundel who is the power behind Liberal Conspiracy notes that it along with its opposite number Conservative Home suffer from the same problem.The wishes of the party hierarchy to control from the top down.

He points out that a Fabian society debate

today revealed just how resistant the party hierarchy is to letting the grassroots help set the agenda. But that will have to change if Labour is to have a chance of winning the next election

. and adds that

We are now living in an era where people want more accountability and responsiveness from their elected officials. They are put off politics because they find it too Westminster-focused or irrelevant to their lives. They find the whole system difficult to decipher. In other words, they want more control, and want to engage with others who feel the same.

So the solution according to Suny is let blogs create the grassroots delay and if it is correctly it can

new ways of getting involved in the political process.