On the day the US Congress passed legislation providing health coverage to 32 million Americans without insurance, Political Scrapbook can reveal the Conservatives' Cash Gordon campaign was developed by an anti-healthcare lobbyist described as "Karl Rove 2.0″.

Writing on the Blue Blog yesterday, the affable Sam Coates claimed that Conservatives' campaign site against Labour/Unite links was "built in just a few days". What he doesn't tell you is that the system has been purchased off-the-shelf from Republican strategists David All Group and was originally developed to galvanise opposition to Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.

Cash Gordon is based on Operation Waiting Game, which leverages social media against reforms which, it is claimed, "will have the same devastating effects in the United States as it has in Canada and in nations across Europe: longer wait times and lower quality care".

In an embarrassment for CCHQ, the party's flagship campaign is currently hosted alongside those attempting to "rescue America from government-run health care",