The Labour party has produced a moving campaigning video, called Against the Odds, to raise its spirits in the run up to the general election. 

I got some mild backwash on Twitter from Labour's 'Twitter czar' – new media spokesperson Kerry McCarthy MP – when I suggested the video was moving but was no reason to vote Labour against the bitter taste of Iraq, Afghanistan and MPs' expenses. 

Kerry retorted: was I watching the same film? In other words, how could I have responded so differently? 

Quite simple. I'm an ordinary voter, not a political activist. I'm generally left of centre, but I make my mind up on the issues and how I think the government and opposition parties are doing. I did find the film moving, but Labour's part in winning votes for women 90 years ago and creating the NHS sixty years ago is no reason – in itself – for me to vote for the party in 2010. A misty eyed video cannot make me forget the lies Tony Blair told to justify the invasion of Iraq, or the way Gordon Brown forced through the disastrous part privatisation of the London Underground. 

That's not to say Labour cannot point to achievements since 1997. But Against the Odds doesn't make the case for a fourth term.