Lies, lies and more lies…. It’s manifesto season in the campaign
You would have thought that after 58 months out of a maximum of 60 months in Parliament, the ‘Party Manifesto’ would be ready to go as soon as the General Election is called. But no, it’s not until tomorrow, with a third of the campaign already gone, that the parties will release their pages and pages and pages of false promises upon a ‘wish it were true’ public.
And it is unlikely they will contain any surprises even when they are ready to go.
One party official on Labour’s manifesto was quoted as saying: “It’s practically as long as War and Peace. There’s an awful lot of verbiage, which I’m sure nobody is going to read. I’d like to see it half as long and twice as strong.” ~ Oh dear, that doesn’t bode well.
And don’t expect anything more exciting from the Tories either. The key pledges – for that is all they are – have already been well publicised. Indeed there is concern from Conservative Central Office that the Tories may have peaked too soon in their campaign.
So, have you got your reading glasses to hand, because you’re going to need them in order to check what’s written ‘between the lines’? Typically the ‘Big Bad 3’ are experts at saying what they will do, but with their metaphorical fingers most definitely crossed behind their back.
How many of the Jury Team’s only 30 policies have shown up in the other party’s manifestos of the past? Pretty much all of them! Why are they still not enacted then? Because as we have come to learn with the ‘Big Bad 3’ it is always a case of promises are only promised to woo the voter, not to be expected to be Acts of Parliament. If you asked any MP at the mid-term stage of a parliament, “What have you done in your manifesto and what remains undone?” they would be likely to splutter and use that typical Politician’s way out of anything they don’t want to admit to, the old ‘at all costs don’t answer the question’ ploy.
So, what’s the point of a manifesto then? To be frank, when they’ve proved in the last parliament they can’t be trusted to balance their own accounts let alone the country’s balance of payments, I guess no point at all. Manifestos are clearly ignored by the people, and the politicians and political parties rely on this to trundle on in government doing whatever they want, but not necessarily what they promised.
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