The pre-electioneering for the 2010 General Election campaign has begun, and political parties have fired their opening salvos. It’s already hard to miss MessageSpace-affiliated bloggers on mainstream news channels – and we can’t wait to see where the next six months will take us.

To kick off the new year (and politically charged atmosphere), MessageSpace is following up from last year’s sponsored debate at the House of Commons in conjunction with the Henry Jackson Society and Delib. The second debate in this series, titled: “Technology not Policy will win Election 2010″ will look at the increasing need to spread the political word of the parties, but does that sometimes mean watering down the content? The event will be held on Monday 18, January in the Grand Committee Room in Westminster Hall.

The host will again be Danny Alexander MP (Lib Dem), and the panellists this time are: Rishi Saha (Tory), Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour), Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC) and Julie Meyer (BBC Dragon’s Den & Internet Entrepreneur).

We look forward to seeing your there!

Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes blog), Peter Kellner (YouGov), Michael White (Associate Editor, the Guardian), Grant Shapps MP (Shadow Minister for Housing) and Nick Robinson (BBC Political Editor) contributed to a very, very lively debate.