The problem with Labour making the word fight its mantra, watchword, rallying cry, is that they manage to make it sound as if they are fighting us – the voters.
An impression which is only reinforced, as Rachel Sylvester wrote in today’s Times “… as they find themselves compared to paedophiles if they drive a group of children to a swimming class, they feel increasingly that Labour disapproves of them. Somehow the Government has also managed to alienate the hard-working families it claims to represent, from the dinner lady fired for reporting bullies to the policewomen who cannot babysit for each other’s child unless they join a childminders register.”
And, as Libby Purves added “No, really, this is it. Bring on the revolution … Today, it seems, ordinary life has been made illegal. Do you remember voting for that?”
Do you get the feeling that Labour may have lost the womens vote?
