Re: I can read polices and manifestos as I please
"https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/
Should be required reading"
Agreed. And BE QUICK ABOUT IT.
Though wouldn't it be even better if a manifesto implied some kind of real world commitment, as people would rightly expect with any normal commercial agreement (e.g. pension triple lock? student tuition fees? education education education?)?
In what other careers can people promise to do one thing before being appointed and then immediately do the direct opposite on taking power, and still get away with it Scot free, with a nice handy pension to boot even if they get sacked, and nobody is allowed to question it because... well, just because Daddy says so, apparently. (Yes I know, senior members of many corporate Boards of Directors do it too, and it shouldn't be allowed for them either, unless we can all have that opportunity).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
