Contempt of Voters by the Labour Party Has Made Voting a Coin Toss.

Back when he was Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and his lawyers went to court and successfully argued that a party manifesto commitment wasn't a promise that should be carried out, but instead was an aspiration with no expectation of it ever becoming actual policy.

So even back then Labour didn't see the manifesto as any sort of promise or contract with the electorate, it was just a set of aspirations that may or may not be worked towards. 

Essentially you shouldn't believe a word a politician says on the campaign trail. 

Basically Kier Starmer has taken that concept a step further and outright lied or misled the electorate in the run up to this year's election. 

He acted like he would keep the winter fuel payment, but the instant he go in power, he scrapped it.

He acted like he would support the WASPI women and would compensate them. He has done exactly the opposite.

He said he wouldn't raise taxes (well, the extremely caveated phrase "won't increase wage packets") but increased every other tax and enacted policy that increased prices.

He promised growth, but we are heading for recession if we have another month of negative growth.

It's the outright lying that is getting to people. There are clips on the internet showing Starmer making a point, or making a pledge, or showing support for a cause whilst in opposition, then Showing him doing the exact opposite of what he pledged now he's in power. So what he said was just to get into power and nothing else? That's the only conclusion you can make.

Under those circumstances, when you are voting it's like a lottery. Will you or won't you get the party you saw prior to them coming to power? You're taking a chance on the party elected to power choosing to make good on their pre-election promises. 

There is no guarantee. At it's most extreme, you could vote Socialist Labour and get a Far-Right party in power instead. Or vote Tory, get a Communist party instead. 

It's ludicrous that parties are allowed to tell outright lies to get in power, with absolutely no intention of enacting the promises made. 

There should be some law that forces parties to enact policies they have pledged to enact. The consequence may be that the parties fail to create a manifesto. Some would see that as a bad thing. I don't, I think it shows exactly that the current system is ludicrous. 

There should be some expectation that some, if not all of the pledges made in a party election manifesto are actually carried out. I do wonder if the election commission has any say in this area at all, because without some legal clout to ensure that parties enact at least some of their manifesto, or make some efforts to enact some of their policies, the election is compromised. 

What are you voting for?  How would you know?

It's time that this regime of lies was stamped out. A party could promise a million pounds for each person in the UK and get elected, only to not deliver. Of course, most people wouldn't believe such a promise, but what about reducing immigration? We DO believe a party when it says that, but successive governments have failed to deliver, or even work towards delivery by removing legal roadblocks in the way like membership of the ECHR. 

As voters, we need to have confidence that a party will do what it says it will do. 

Otherwise we may as well just pack up elections and just toss a coin to see who wins.