Often the first thing new recruits get from party HQ is an email begging for time and money On the campaigning trail I saw a few moments of charismatic evangelism and a lot of robotic data collection.
All of which makes you wonder if it's mere coincidence that he's chosen to give his first interview in the week that the job of next director-general was advertised, or that the chosen venue is the so-called "Tsar's Bar" in a hotel opposite Broadcasting House (where the DG and BBC Broadcast are both based) rather than the Production tsar's own HQ in White City.
Eugenie Harvey, director of the 10 10 campaign, which uses this compact, spartan two-storey workspace as its HQ, points to the list with evident pride.
Its European HQ is located in what is now known as the Google Quarter in south-central Dublin.
"Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together," said Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post last week, as his staff began moving into the new hangar-like HQ.
Whenever he is asked about the detail, he refers to this "constitutional convention" someone is beavering away on back at Labour party HQ.
He got Vallecas rocking, despite the absence of around 200 fans who were missing after police launched a "preventative" raid on the HQ of the club's Bukaneros supporters club and some supporters stayed away as a protest.
The main difference to campaigns past, says White, is the target-driven canvassing and the full-throated backing from Labour HQ.
Rumours have been circulating of late that the taxpayer-rescued Bank of Ireland had finally found a buyer for their former northern HQ, and that this may have prompted anti-capitalist activists to take it over on Monday lunchtime.
He had also just eaten an army chicken curry in the huge all-ranks mess tent which serves the 1,200 troops - a third of them women - who are at the command and control HQ of Operation Saif Sareea, in which 20,000 British service personnel are engaged.
Briefings were in a temporary military HQ, much of which had been constructed in a massive logistical feat by UK engineers.
