Alexander Joseph Pravesh Hilton (born 4 January, 1976) is a British Labour politician from London, United Kingdom, although he does not curently hold elected office.

Hilton contested the British House of Commons seat in Canterbury during the 2005 General Election, which saw an 8.2% drop in the Labour vote, comfortably returning the current Member Julian Brazier with an increased majority of 15.7% of the vote.

From 2002 until May 2006, Hilton was a Labour Councillor for the Newbury ward in the London Borough of Redbridge.

In June, 2006, he teamed up with Jag Singh, an American-trained political strategist, to launch Labourhome, an interactive political web blog/portal that targets Labour party members and activists. The site allows all registered members to maintain blogs within the site. Singh is also said to have been behind the recent uplift and redesign of the occasionally politically incorrect Recess Monkey website, another of Hilton's web projects.

Hilton once misspelt millennium eight times in one article[225], though was praised once for his consistency in that regard.

During the 2006 Labour party conference Hilton was vomitted on by a Labour Party Researcher. Hilton later claimed that this was an accident. Hilton has been known to describe his wikipedia contributors as "sad mothef*ckers" who should stop f*cking people they are related to and get out more".

In 2006, Hilton became the Managing Director of a new advertising agency called MessageSpace, which sells ad space on leading political blogs. Hilton courted accusations of hypocrisy as the political blogosphere and therefore the majority of sites where his company sells ad space, is dominated by the Right, and Hilton had posted on LabourHome.org[226] that he "utterly detested" Conservatives and that they made him "sick to my stomach".

Alex Hilton appears as a regular guest on The Knives Are Out radio show and podcast [227] using the pseudonym "Recess Monkey"

Alexander Ian William Hilton (2/11/1990) is a name shared with the labour politician who also lives in the Canterbury area though is in no way related to, or connected to, the labour politician as he originates from the North East of England and is frequenly know as 'Geordie' or 'lightbulb' due to his extravagant, yet very stylish, hairstyles usually incorporating a very vibrant blonde colour.

External links

Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Alex Hilton

Interview with More4 Newsblog Recent interview with a British TV Newsblog

Recess Monkey Recess Monkey blog

Labourhome Labourhome blog

The Knives Are Out Recess Monkey is a regular panellist on this live radio series and podcast