Happy days

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 12:04

Our latest film is being really well received on our facebook site. I've watched the film three times this morning and it brings a big smile to my face on each viewing.

I remember being interviewed by the Panorama crew in a empty hall after the count had finished and I said that it had been the most brilliant campaign I had ever been involved in. Of course the winning put the icing on the cake but during the campaign I met so many brilliant people - from all walks of life - who were just motivated to stop hatred. It really restored by faith in human nature and blew away the argument that people are no longer interested in politics.

Some politicians now argue that the answer to declining election turnouts is to make voting compulsory or set up booths in pubs and supermarkets. What nonsense. Give people hope and inspire them and they will turn out.

A lot of people wrote off the people of Barking & Dagenham as racists and lost causes but they too responded positively and heavily rejected the BNP. Griffin's comments at the end of the film about London being "lost" sums up their contempt for ordinary people.

Please watch the film and add your comments on our facebook site (www.facebook.com/hope.n.hate)