Gordon Brown's activities today are putting election attention (Elention? Attection? Anyone?) on the middle classes.
Meanwhile in the blogosphere, there have been a number of right-wing bloggers attacking trade unions, and their raison d'être.
The right-wing argument goes that we don't live in a world of mass workplace exploitation anymore, because we are zipping along in our own self-employed consultant flexible-working paradises (Paradisii?).
In many ways they might be right. There are trends for future working patterns which will lead people to be much more in control over their own destiny and able to make choices about working patters etc. (much introduced as legislation by this labour government), and they are also right that higher-level skills has also led to improvements.
However, let's not be ignorant of the fact that a great deal of people still work in situations where they are being exploited. The need for Trade Unions is still great in this modern age as in those before it.
And yet the modern Conservative will bang away instead at the need to tear them down because it is inconceivable to him that there could be any other answer else - "you mean the private sector, can be 'gasp' nasty to people??!?"
Cameron's Conservatives are one-view people. In 1997 Tony Blair and Gordon, and the New Labour project took seriously the importance of looking through the prism to identify the myriad different lives that Britain lives.
Cameron doesn't do that - and on election day his lack of total support will reflect that.
SH
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Someone's waving the flag for Big Gordon! To be honest you could susbtitute the word 'Conservative' for 'Labour' and 'David Cameron' for 'Gordon Brown' and get an equally accurate article. To vote Labour in May is to vote for lies, deception, surveilance society and the rampant State- vote Lib Dem for a change
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