article_snippet.sent: Well, it should, because Labour leader Ed Miliband said it five years ago.
article_snippet.sent: , it’s the title of an 1806 poem to mark Lord Nelson’s death.
article_snippet.sent: This may make This an odd slogan for a modern election, yet in America, home to Labour’s strategist David Axelrod, the phrase has a long history.
article_snippet.sent: First used by Franklin Roosevelt in 1924, presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey plastered the phrase across presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey campaign jet in 1968.
article_snippet.sent: the phrase has since been used by politicians desperate to be seen as trustworthy, hard-working men-of-the-people.
article_snippet.sent: In 2012, Barack Obama described Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden as ‘America’s happy warrior’, in a speech written by Axelrod.
article_snippet.sent: Undoubtedly another contribution from Axelrod, who is big on ego-boosting statements of intent.
article_snippet.sent: Calm, never agitated’ Axelrod famously labelled Obama
article_snippet.sent: Also, campaign guru Axelrod’s autobiography is peppered with references to ‘decency and small-town values’.
article_snippet.sent: While working for Obama, Obama told Obama to say Obama was ‘led not by polls but by principle’.
article_snippet.sent: As for Obama closing statement, ‘let’s bring the change Britain needs’, it seems a rip-off of the slogan used by Obama who, in 2008, talked endlessly about ‘change we can believe in’.