Manifesto

[hyperD]

Would you vote for this?

Vote for it? I'd invoke Godwin's law and invade Poland immediately.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Well spotted. Labour, 1997. It's what we voted for and got for the last 13 years. Anyone for any more?

Mmmmm. You sure about that bit.

Maybe we should make them do a variance analysis between forecast and actual; and then make them explain the difference.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

...
a) Which party's manifesto is that? (I think it is one of two.)

b) Which year was it published? (Labour, circa 1995 I reckon.)

Well spotted. Labour, 1997. It's what we voted for and got for the last 13 years. Anyone for any more?

[Tingles]

Bnp?

[RichardCranium]

Would you vote for this?

1. Education will be our number one priority, and we will increase the share of national income spent on education as we decrease it on the bills of economic and social failure
"Education, education, education". Heard it all before.

2. There will be no increase in the basic or top rates of income tax
Don't the Merkins follow this with "Watch my lips"?

3. We will provide stable economic growth with low inflation, and promote dynamic and competitive business and industry at home and abroad
= "static economic growth" and = "promote business and industry at home by selling it to abroad"

4. We will get 250,000 young unemployed off benefit and into work
I have been hearing that farcical claim for 30 years now. It actually happens naturally, every year as one lot of the young unemployed get older and another lot leave school.

5. We will rebuild the NHS, reducing spending on administration and increasing spending on patient care
... by outsourcing the admin to Trusts and thereby eliminating it from one budget, thereby making the patient care budget appear to be a greater proportion of the total. I've worked in the public sector and know how these lies work.

6. We will be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, and halve the time it takes persistent juvenile offenders to come to court
... and then let them off.

7. We will help build strong families and strong communities, and lay the foundations of a modern welfare state in pensions and community care
That's just pipe-dreams, fluff and flannel. They forgot to delete that text from a previous speech decades ago and now think it is like saying "Regards" on the bottom of an email.

8. We will safeguard our environment, and develop an integrated transport policy to fight congestion and pollution
... by paying people to import new cars and continuing to expand airports and continuing to allow airlines tax-free fuel. That "Integrated Transport System" idea was scrapped years ago.

9. We will clean up politics, decentralise political power throughout the United Kingdom and put the funding of political parties on a proper and accountable basis
"... i.e. political parties will be funded by the tax payer."

10. We will give Britain the leadership in Europe which Britain and Europe need
Utter fantasy. Charlemagne, Napolean and Hitler are the only ones who came close to doing that.


a) Which party's manifesto is that? (I think it is one of two.)

b) Which year was it published? (Labour, circa 1995 I reckon.)

[shaunbhoy]

No. Too vague. Less soundbites and some more meat on the bones please.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Would you vote for this?

1. Education will be our number one priority, and we will increase the share of national income spent on education as we decrease it on the bills of economic and social failure
2. There will be no increase in the basic or top rates of income tax
3. We will provide stable economic growth with low inflation, and promote dynamic and competitive business and industry at home and abroad
4. We will get 250,000 young unemployed off benefit and into work
5. We will rebuild the NHS, reducing spending on administration and increasing spending on patient care
6. We will be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, and halve the time it takes persistent juvenile offenders to come to court
7. We will help build strong families and strong communities, and lay the foundations of a modern welfare state in pensions and community care
8. We will safeguard our environment, and develop an integrated transport policy to fight congestion and pollution
9. We will clean up politics, decentralise political power throughout the United Kingdom and put the funding of political parties on a proper and accountable basis
10. We will give Britain the leadership in Europe which Britain and Europe need