My latest piece about the Hung Parliament and the power Clegg holds as third place candidate was loved by BillBored who wanted to end the project with a bang - so they set out on a dark Sunday evening to project this onto the hottest spot in London.

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After weeks of tireless campaigning and voting in the Leinz General Election “Personalities not Policies” I am very please to announce the results of who you all voted for. I was not too surprised by the result but it will be interesting to compare the clever little so and so’s who visit my site with the actual results.

Thanks for all those that took part.

After two of the three television debates already over and with instant polls and numerous thousand tweets on them, a lot of people are being more persuaded by the individual leader and not looking at the party and it’s policies. The majority of the talk has been about who is the most charismatic and engaging on a personal level.

The voters are not being won over by the hard facts and figures of each party but by who they like the most on a non- political level. Alright, we need to like who is in charge, but how they intend to run the country is what we should really be focussing on.

Poor old Labour will ultimately loose a lot of seats with dour and unapproachable Mr Brown, whereas The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who are more savvy to the impact TV debates and new media can have on opinions are changing tactics to gain more votes.

Is our election process on a dumbed-downward spiral where parties are made almost obsolete by a candidate’s smile and personality?

ELECTION RESULT - Check out the results from the online voting…. did your personal choice win?

Everyone loves free stuff - especially FREE ART. So get on over to leinz.co.uk and put your name down for some free art that I will be giving away for a few days only. The pieces are secret until they are despatched to you and all we ask is that you come back here and give your feedback!

Pieces are limited so first come, first served - SEE PHOTOS OF THE FREE ART »

With more and more people using the internet as their regular source for news and information. With new technology likely to make us even more web dependent by allowing us to access the internet in new ways from anywhere. Should we be more aware of how this information is searched and delivered to us and who is in control of it?.

Search engines are our main portal to all the lovely free information online, but how many consider the power these companies hold - with a recent Facebook login / Google search issue proving how trusted and unwittingly people search.

If google and all the other big search engines are tailoring their search results to give us specific types of information. They are inadvertently limiting and filtering the information we get.

This has been made more public recently when Google changed its search results in China to censor / remove whole parts of Chinese history to gain a footing in the lucrative Chinese search market.

This is happening at a less obvious level on a day to day basis as search engines alter their search functions to suit  what they believe people are searching for, but is this also effecting what we are searching for…? Potentially ending in a Orwellian Big Brother scenario where all information and news we received is controlled by search engines.

“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
George Orwell, 1984

Who’s Jack…
“The artist who has turned Boris Johnson into a clown and Barack Obama into a saint talks to Ruthie Holloway about creating art to raise political and social awareness, giving it away for free and the black clouds of celebrity and money.”

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