Likewise, the leader of Britain’s Conservatives, David Cameron, startled more old-fashioned supporters of his party by saying that people released from prison “need, above all, love.” When Prime Minister Tony Blair described the next election as a fistfight in which the “flyweight” Cameron would be carried out and the “heavyweight” Brown victorious after a short bout, he got much applause from his supporters in the House of Commons, but the remark went down badly with voters.
同样地，英国保守党领袖卡梅隆所谓从监狱里释放出来的人“最需要的是爱”的说法震动了他的党内更为古派的支持者。当布莱尔首相把下一次大选描述为一场拳击比赛，“轻量级”的卡梅隆会在一个很短的回合后就被“重量级”的布朗轻松击败，他博得了他在下院的支持者巨大的欢呼，然而这种说法并没有被选民所接受。就某种程度上讲，人们现在比过去二十年来更倾向于“软”价值。