subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
I'm generally there for the idea that we should be moving towards a shorter working week - there are good arguments that it's a feasible thing to do, and it's obviously desirable - but I'm baffled by the idea that anyone who wasn't already a guaranteed labour voter - and a particular sort of labour voter at that - was going to hear the idea, possibly for the first time, and think "yeah, that sounds inspiring but also achievable" rather than "what fucking planet do these headbangers live on?"
In fact, I got that from a lot of the Labour manifesto stuff. The response I heard a lot from soft-left types was basically that they thought it was "vote for us and get a free pony" stuff - to the extent that there was a plausible vision of a better future there, they weren't seeing it, just a disjointed pile of giveaways.
Yes. We need people to realize that they deserve it all, that it's actually their right in a more equal society, and that it's very achievable with sufficient political will. Which means changing the false but hammered-in perception that "we can't afford it" and that it's all just fantasy promises for electoral gain. But how to do that when everyone else - especially in the media - is dedicated to maintaining the status quo is to say the least... problematic.