Political parties launch election manifestos
British political parties have launched their election manifestos less than a month ahead of the general elections.
Prime Minister David Cameron launched Tories’ election manifesto in Swindon on Tuesday.
He said if his Conservative Party wins the general elections, he would pass a law to keep minimum wage workers out of tax, double free childcare to 30 hours a week and boost "right to buy" home ownership.
Tories' election manifesto has already come under attack, with some critics arguing that it could worsen housing crisis and figures behind it do not add up.
Earlier on Monday, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband launched his party’s manifesto. He said the Conservatives were the “party of the richest in society,” and promised to improve the lives of Britain's workers and not to pay for any policies through additional borrowing.
Meanwhile, a London-based political commentator and university professor described election manifestos as “a series of attempts by the parties to resemble themselves as they would like to be seen.”
“They are something between advertising and propaganda and lies and the British public has become more sophisticated with the parties lies. They don’t get rid of them straight away. But, when people pull away at the policies, they are getting quite used to the fact that what the people appear to be saying in those parties is not quite a promise and if it is a promise, it shouldn't be trusted,” Professor Jonathan Rosenhead told Press TV on Tuesday.
“Policies and manifestos are not to be trusted and people are increasingly not trusting them,” he noted, slamming the political culture in the UK.
“For example, at the last election, the conservatives said no more top down reorganization of the National Health Service and proceeded to have the biggest as usual the mother of all reorganization of National Health Service,” he said.
Electoral campaigning is in full swing in the United Kingdom several weeks ahead of general elections.
Britons will go to the polls on May 7 in the most unpredictable elections in decades.
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