(1) September 12, 2013 Both the Conservatives and Labour are targetting the nation's toilers and strivers.
(2) He would face a predictable volley of criticism from Conservative-leaning papers who didn't like the idea of a former Blair toiler – or "labour crony" in Mail speak – at No 10 ruling the corporation they love to hate.
(3) This seemed to be a bid to reclaim the curtain vote from the chancellor, who routinely claims that low-paid dawn toilers resent neighbours whose curtails remain closed until the pub opens for them to spend their dole on champagne and oysters.
(4) Yet Ed's most exotic passage came when he praised Britain's "forgotten wealth-creators" This was not a reference to Brunel or Michael Faraday – giants of Lord Derby's prime – but to low-paid toilers who go out to work early "before George Osborne's curtains are open and come back late at night when he has closed them again".
(5) Samantha Cameron is not a humble backroom toiler at Smythson: she has acted as a public face for the firm, which we now discover is ultimately controlled by a trust based in the notorious tax haven of Guernsey.
(6) • A diary date meanwhile: 11 October, when former toilers on the Aberdeen Press and Journal and Aberdeen Evening Express meet to remember the 1989 strike for pay and conditions.