April 13, 2005
Just one Manifesto
It seems as though this election has been going on forever. I was somewhat surprised, therefore, when yesterday's big news was a sneak preview of parts of ZNL's manifesto. Yes, the manifesto appeared today, and only by mid morning. A copy can be obtained here.
It's a fairly substantial document, 56 pages and some 24,000 words. Every chapter begins with a comparison with 1997. For example
"1997: Marginalised in Europe, aid in decline
and Bosnia in ruins
2005: Aid doubled, elections in Iraq and
Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia peaceful
2010: A strong Britain in a reforming Europe,
300 million out of poverty, global action
on climate change"
You can see the process; even Bosnia was a CONtrick. But all this was eight years ago. The message is very clever, right down to the slogan "forward not back". Show how bad things were before ZNL took over, plead with people not to go back there, but to go forward to the 2010 elysian fields, singing, dancing, and holding hands with ZNL. Even a planning disaster like breaking up the house of lords with no sensible idea as to how to replace it, is presented as much more progress than the other lot ever made and more to come. The last sentence of the leaflet reads,
"Having refused for decades to accept any reform of the
archaic House of Lords, some of them now claim to support
a fully elected House.The choice is forward with new Labour to
modern institutions and more power than ever devolved to
communities and successful local authorities. Or back with
the Tories to a government indifferent to the health of our
democracy and negligent of our institutions."
No mention here of the attempt to 'devolve power' to the North East regional assembly, a suggestion voted out by a huge majority.
Today’s Politicalbetting “BALANCE OF MONEY” prediction: Labour majority 60
Posted by Flo Ting Voe Tah at April 13, 2005 01:08 PM