I hear people constantly telling us that the Labour Party is not living up to its promise of being caring. They cannot. They have to abide by the financial system and that system is not ethical and never has been. so leaders want to care and they say they do but none of them can enter every living room in the country and listen to the sorrows of the inhabitants so they have to rely on statistics. This is caring in kind. Wanting and trying to care but ultimately being chained to fiscal policies that are actually making the decisions.
Of course they care in fact – for their families and friends and people they meet and know well. To make caring in kind as effective as caring in fact they would need a degree of empathy so deep that few human beings are even capable of achieving it.