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 Sam McBratney makes his appeal on youtube |
Labour hopeful in bid for YouTube generation vote
Polls candidate posts video on website showing home movie clips
LABOUR is using David Cameron-style video broadcasts to drum up support for its Kentish Town by-election campaign.
The party has posted a six-minute video of candidate the Reverend Sam McBratney on the YouTube website.
In the broadcast, he claims voters never intended to boot Labour completely out of power at May’s Town Hall elections in Camden.
The YouTube website has become best known for bizarre home video clips showing cats opening doors and explosions created by dropping sweets into fizzy drinks.
But Labour is now using the website to reach out to voters in the run-up to the December 7 by-election.
In his internet broadcast, Mr McBratney appears as a talking head, asking supporters to vote Labour and giving out his mobile phone number and other details.
He says: “We are very tight in terms of our campaign but we need lots of people to get out on the ground to talk to people. We have a majority of 15. One five. We need all the help we can get.”
His YouTube broadcast follows Conservative Party leader David Cameron’s use of video posted on the web.
Referring to the May result, Mr McBratney says: “We were particularly hit hard by national issues and so the war and foundation hospitals, city academies, those kind of issues were big on the doorstep in May and lost us a lot of votes.
“I think people wanted to give us a bit of a bloody nose and ended up giving us a good kicking. On the doorstep now there is regret. People thought we would get a reduced majority and a message. I don’t think they wanted us to lose overall control of the council.”
Labour MPs David Blunkett and Hazel Blears, who chairs the party nationally, have contributed to the website. |
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