If ever unequivocal evidence was needed of this Labour government's utter contempt for ordinary people's opinions and their total refusal to listen to grassroots feelings on matters of concern, this incident has provided it.
"The FCC's eighth-floor executive office has been thrown into chaos amid a mounting backlash that shut down its phone lines as a growing number of open-Internet advocates camp out in front of their office... "Chairman Wheeler is feeling the grassroots pressure against his pay-for-prioritization proposal," says Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press.
For a party used to all-pervasive control, the withering of its grassroots organisations has left it feeling increasingly uneasy.
Celeste Greig, president of the California Republican Assembly, is feeling the heat from progressive grassroots organizations calling for her resignation after she stated earlier this month that pregnancies from rape are rare.
With 100% of profits from the sale of Charity Pot cream going to grassroots charity organizations supporting communities and animals, your skin isn't the only thing that will be feeling great.
We need to be acknowledged without feeling the need to be validated through affiliation to the mainstream groups that often exclude the fierce grassroots efforts with direct action that don't get funded.
The chavista movement suffered "a top-to-bottom split, from state governors down to the grassroots", said Ismael García, the leader of Podemos.The emergence of what Mr García calls a "third pole" between the government and the traditional opposition allowed many of the president's supporters to vote no, or at least to abstain, without feeling that they were betraying their leader.
(Yang Xiaoxuan, a twenty-year-old graduate student, frowned and asked "Is Hilton grassroots?") The ballroom filled, and the mood turned festive, almost giddy, because, it seemed, Chinese people who are interested enough in the election to watch returns were desperate to stop feeling sheepish about being experts on America.
In a Web video, Senator Obama says he's holding this raffle in order to maintain the campaign's grassroots, bottom-up feeling.
There is disillusionment too among the party grassroots, where a feeling persists that Obama should have done more during his first term, especially in the first year when the Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House.
