Breaking manifesto pledges
Today we've seen Boris Johnson outlining his plan to pay for improved social care by raising NI tax by 1.25%. This despite a manifesto pledge at the last election not to raise NI tax - a manifesto which also contained the intention to 'fix' social care. So, was that by a different means? We assume not..
I would hope Boris will rue this broken promise come the next election, but he thinks he won't. In past decades he certainly would have. Are we now in an age where politicians can sacrifice integrity for expediency so obviously and get away with it?
I would hope Boris will rue this broken promise come the next election, but he thinks he won't. In past decades he certainly would have. Are we now in an age where politicians can sacrifice integrity for expediency so obviously and get away with it?
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Good question. Sadly, yes, the average politician sacrifice their integrity just to get away from problems or made decisions. It is so obvious that is why we get mad, right?
To be honest, this "technique" or "trick" (whatever we can name it) is so common in modern politics. If you want to be a politician I guess you have to be ready to sacrifice morality and integrity to climb on powerful positions.
Citizens? These will no longer care for the government anymore since the moment they win the elections.
It is also interesting this technique. Politicians tend to act more stupid or ignorant than they are in real life or in the "shadows". Bush did so on Irak crisis. But I do not understand why they use this technique just to get away from problems usually. When I vote a political party and their leader is due to my confidence on them that the situation would be better because they are capable of managing a whole country.
It's not so much inconsistency as lying that I mind. The only principle he seems to espouse is that of saying whatever half-truths are necessary to get away with as much as voters will let him.
You and me both. From the bridge to N. Ireland to the floating wall in the Channel to stop the migrants, the fantasies pour out with Trumpean brazenness. They'll be telling us next that Corbyn is a racist.