Will the public ever learn that election manifestos are merely a substitute for Andrex™ double-quilted?

Question

We see the Conservative party breaking away from their manifesto, in terms of the upcoming benefit cuts. Cameron at least acknowledges such, five paragraphs down in the following report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11481223

Now while the notion of a governing party taking their manifesto and ripping it up is nothing new (New Labour, anyone?), what really gets my goat is that the Tories specifically berated Labour during the election campaign for lying and reneging on their manifesto - and here is David Cameron doing precisely what he lambasted Gordon Brown for!!!

When you look at election manifestos (assuming you are that sad AND you bother), do you actually believe a word they say?

Answer 1

Cameron had the gall to call Brown a liar in the PM election debates and said they would be keeping winter fuel payments, free tv licenses and free bus passes and child benefit. He also said there would be no major reforms of the NHS. Every single thing he has said is a LIE and I hope at the next election we have another PM debate and Labour call him the big fat liar that he is.

Answer 2

They are a party of users.

They are using the Lib Dem's as a chopping block for the Tory ends .

They are using the difficulties our nation is suffering since the Bankers fleeced us all to flip, fudge, nudge and cagoule the Nation (YOU AND ME) into their favoured policies that will make Them even better off than before and all this with the idea that they are offering us a lifeline for the future.

To quote one of their predecessors "You can fool some of the people... " and they have now the gift of the so called coalition to by-pass any manifesto pledges that were smoothed over in interviews with " WE will do what is necessary to bring our country back from the brink; it is not the coalition that will do this but it seems the average worker/ tax payer who will pay for the Tory 'Reforms' that will lower our ability to function against the wealthy for decades to come.

Believe me there are better ways that TORY WAYS the COALition should be poked to re-ignite the nation not smoother it.

Answer 3

Yes, a party is elected on the promises they make before the election, but we have to hope that they will not renege on those promises. They all do of course, in some small way, but the formation of a coalition has meant that neither the Lib Dems or the Conservatives can get to realise their manifesto promises. What we end up with is a fudge of both, and what would appear to be both parties lying about their pre-election promises. What we see nowadays is government by whoever gets in to power that is not true Tory, not true Lib Dem and not true Labour. Perhaps government is becoming more like it should do - a bit of everything. At least this coalition is getting to grips with the fact that deep cuts have to be made now for us to hold our heads up in the future internationally.

Answer 4

There is a recent High Court case which established in law that no party has to honour its manifesto if elected to power. That says it all for me.

Answer 5

I would not put them in the same class as the double quilted Andrex. But they are super absorbent in the cat tray

Answer 6

Well deciphered......And......a very good link.....You know them so well.....