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Breaking manifesto pledges

Tim3003 September 07, 2021 at 20:53 2500 views 7 comments
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?

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Deleted User September 07, 2021 at 21:08 #590345
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javi2541997 September 08, 2021 at 04:41 #590524
Quoting Tim3003
Are we now in an age where politicians can sacrifice integrity for expediency so obviously and get away with it?


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.
javi2541997 September 08, 2021 at 04:44 #590525
Quoting tim wood
Boris Johnson seems no fool at all, though at times he plays one rather well


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.
VincePee September 08, 2021 at 07:53 #590621
I saw a movie, starring Robert Redford, in which the suicide rate sky rocketed after he discovered a realm of being after death.
unenlightened September 08, 2021 at 10:28 #590650
A vote for Boris has never conceivably been a vote for consistency. We like the cut of his jib, without having the least clue what a jib is or how it should be cut.
Tim3003 September 10, 2021 at 19:14 #591986
Quoting unenlightened
A vote for Boris has never conceivably been a vote for consistency.


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.
unenlightened September 10, 2021 at 20:02 #592032
Quoting Tim3003
It's not so much inconsistency as lying that I mind.


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.