The general election manifestos are out

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”.