This week has been manifesto week for the biggest political parties in the UK, part of the lead up to the forthcoming surprise general election.
Links to the ones I found so far, in alphabetical order:
- Conservatives (80 pages)
- Green (48 pages)
- Labour (not easy to see how many pages it is in total)
- Liberal Democrats (117 pages)
- Plaid Cymru (72 pages)
- Reform: I don’t think they’re bothering with one. No comment. The closest I could find was “Our Contract With You” (32 pages).
- SNP - not sure, couldn’t quickly find any info on this one.
I do actually intend to read at least a few of them. Wish me luck.
In terms of my tendency to want to find a reason to vote for Labour, I’m wasn’t thrilled to hear in advance via The Guardian that their offering is going to be “a business-friendly manifesto targeted at former Conservative voters.”. Big eye-roll. But at least they have an amusing line on the Conservative plans, calling them the “most expensive panic attack in history”.