Kudos - They still believe...

Yesterday Tory Bear mentioned the anger he had picked up when talking to Labour grassroots activists about the behaviour of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Though many of them hate Gordon with a passion, after they had slogged their guts out for days on end at the stump, they felt deeply betrayed by the plotters actions. Here's what one Labour PPC said to TB:

"It was a crippling blow and quite frankly a slight on those who have been working their bollocks off. It was a real slap to make everything you've done meaningless, but we don't agree, we errr still believe."

And still believe they do. The Labour grassroots seemingly "get it" in a way that Gordon and his cronies never will. This video surfaced yesterday over at the greatly improved, dare TB say it, independent

LabourList:

Well one thing is for sure, the grassroots are a damn sight more effective at conveying their message than Gordon Brown. The video was apparently knocked together in less than 24 hours with activists hitting the Blackberries and emailing their footage to

Stuart MacLennan

and

Blackburn Labour

bloggers. The music choice is inspired and, if anything, the bad sound quality adds to the true amateur grassroots feel to the whole thing.

Let's have a look at some of those who featured:

(Top left to right) Good to see one of TB's favourite Labour drinking buddies Ross Macrae, big on the Edinburgh student politics scene. Wouldn't like to stand against him. Next up Julie Milligan a North West activist. Dean Carlin the Chairman of Labour Students Scotland, quite what an ultra-Brown loyalist feels about the underlying message of the video remains to be seen. Ken Macintosh MSP, Jack Straw and Jim Murphy better look out for flying Nokias coming their way in the next few days.

(Bottom left to right) Stuart MacLennan, one of the creators of the video, followed by some token window dressing, followed by a mad lady with some warped ideas that Labour can stop the BNP (despite the fact it's the Labour vote bleeding to the BNP huh?) Next its Alex Smith the new editor of LabourList, and last but not least it's Laurence Durnan from Blackburn Labour.

Finally, and possibly the most impressive thing about the video was the fact they managed to get Michael Foot's evil twin Brian to appear:

TB despises their politics, and no doubt Peter Oborne would have a screw-the-political-classes-field day with this post, but credit where credit is due. It's a great idea and goes strongly against the current controlling Labour machine. It is purely grassroots driven and damn sight better than anything Gordon has Youtubed, despite the massive budget he has. Maybe those with the right ideas to take our country forward should get our own version going.

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