Your response to Labour’s manifesto  

Today Labour launch their election manifesto, and I’m getting a feeling of déjà vu. The word manifesto actually comes from the word manifest – i.e. clear and evident – but Labour’s manifestos (at least since 1983) have always been rather opaque. These five year plans promise a brighter future for everyone, but the grand promises they make are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on. Just look at what happened last time. The Labour Party’s manifesto in 2005 promised no return to boom and bust – yet we’ve just come out of the longest and deepest recession on record. That was just one of at least a hundred broken promises in the 2005 manifesto. That’s why the Conservatives are today publishing Labour’s 2010 manifesto in an open and interactive format so that you can dig through the detail of Labour’s latest set of election...