The Conservatives' official blog yesterday revealed the Cash Gordon campaign attacking the Prime Minister's links to the Unite union and encouraging supporters to earn 'action points' by reading, donating or tweeting about the campaign.
But if this all seems a little too slick - it is probably because the site is based on an off-the-shelf template developed by a US anti-healthcare lobbyist.
And ... cash-gordon.com has been taken down. It now redirects back to conservatives.com. But only after mischief-makers discovered not only that Tweets were unmoderated but the page was accepting code that let the page be hacked and redirected. Remarkably, the site stayed up long enough for the situation to escalate from uncomplementary tweets and very naughty language to an amusing picture of 'Dave' Cameron and eventually the inevitable Rickroll/porn hack. As well as a redirect to the Labour Party site.
Bet you won't see an unmoderated hashtag on conservatives.com for a while.
Read the full Guardian article here
