Politics & Power Quote by Anne Campbell

“Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working” is campaign language doing what campaign language always does: converting a complicated reality into a simple moral weather report. Anne Campbell isn’t describing an economy so much as staging a feeling - momentum, competence, calm - and tying that feeling to a ballot box. The verbs are telling: thriving, working. Not “recovering,” not “coping,” not “uneven.” The line refuses the possibility that success might be partial, or that “Britain” contains more than one Britain.

The second move is sharper: “if you value it, vote for it.” It’s a neat piece of conditional logic that doubles as a gentle scolding. If you don’t vote Labour (or the incumbent), you must not truly value the good things you enjoy. The phrase makes voting less a preference than a test of gratitude. It also preempts complacency: Cambridge, especially, can be tempted to treat prosperity as natural or self-sustaining, the way a university town can mistake its own advantages for destiny.

The “particularly relevant in Cambridge” tag is the local lock clicking into place. Campbell is speaking to a constituency that often reads as insulated - high skills, research money, booming property values - while still anxious about public services, housing, and transport strained by that very success. The subtext is transactional: you’re benefiting from stability and investment; don’t flirt with disruption. It’s a reminder that political credit is always contested, even in places that look like they’re winning.