Homeland actor stars in latest Labour election broadcast

April 30, 2012 12:49 pm

‘Homeland’ actor David Harewood, returns to his home town of Birmingham in “Cameron’s betrayal of hard working families”:

  • treborc1

    Can I ask a question how much did you pay these people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gill-Morris/1624905301 Gill Morris

    Tories at their lowest ebb since 2004!  Come on let’s get a grip and make sure that the squeezed middle understand that we are not all in it together and that the only way forward is to vote Labour.  There are many who are voting the wrong way because “they don’t like Ken”.  We need to put politics before personality and stress that we are not the party of omnishamble but we do know the price of milk.

    • treborc1

       Or of course we are voting the other ways because labour is the party of the squeezed middle, the video is a middle class attempt to make labour look as it it cares for the hard working  not the working class typical new labour in fact

  • RedSetter

    There’s real danger here because Labour is ahead in the polls not because its doing something right but because the Coalition is spontaneously combusting! Labour absolutely must come forward with a better, more compassionate, and positive agenda. That’s what’s missing: a message of hope and promise of change.

  • http://www.facebook.com/elliot.bidgood Elliot Bidgood

    Good video. The last PEB worried me a bit, as although the NHS is important and it hit that home quite well, it didn’t focus on any other issues. This one is alot broader, and it explains the small-scale ”fairness in tough times” approach quite well. Ed was alright at the end,  so was Harewood.  Didn’t even realise he was a Brit, he’s convincing in his performance in Homeland, and its interesting that there’s two in it’s lead cast.

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