More spin and lies...

So Tory Bear is really beginning to enjoy this Rector election that is going on around him at Edinburgh while he is busy with his dissertation. Blogging has taken a hit in the last couple of weeks as he is a very busy bear. For those of you who are not particularly interested in what is essentially a campus election only have another few more days, so panic not.

This election is showing just how tired Labour Students have become. What was once a forceful and tight campaigning unit have become stale and old, as the video they have put together for the Foulkes campaign shows:

Instead of showing their candidate out and about talking to real students and staff, actual members of the electorate if you will, they instead chose to stage the whole thing with... yep you've guessed it... members of Labour Students.

It starts out rather tame... Just a little chat with the Chairman of Scottish Labour Students, must have bumped into him completely randomly on the steps of the Union:

Next we have the classic meet and greet shot...

Something tells TB that George might know this bunch though...

Firstly we have Matt McPherson, the campaign manager. Then Dean the Chair of SLS again, next up it's Laura Jayne Baker a former Womans Officer of the Labour club and finally Naomi Hunter, Vice President of the Students Association and member of the Labour Party.

Finally it seems George has bumped into a random student and is having a chat:

On closer look though it just so happens to be the chief writer of The Journal, a campus newspaper,

Paris Gourtsoyannis

... Hardly a random stranger. The only person missing seems to be

Kez Dugdale

, Foulkes's chief of staff and chief campaigner... Then TB wondered who was holding the camera...

The whole thing is a sham.