Conservative and Labour manifestos "no longer worth the paper they are written on".

The shenanigans of some MPs, particularly Conservative ones like Dominic Grieve, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston, who throw every parliamentary “spanner” they can find into the Brexit “works” in order  to prevent the result of the 2016 EU Referendum being implemented, has not gone unnoticed.  

It seems that ever greater numbers of voters now know that Labour and Conservative manifestos are merely optional for those parties’ candidates.  Such manifestos are not worth the paper they are written on as this letter I read in The Week on January 19, which first appeared in The Daily Telegraph, wittily points out.

Lucky-dip politics.

To The Daily Telegraph.

Imagine if, on top of the chaos Theresa May and Parliament are wreaking over Brexit, Britain was asked to vote in a general election to “settle” matters.  Neither party would be able to present a manifesto pledge that all, or even a majority, of its candidates could support.

After the last election, at which both main parties said that they would enact the people’s wishes as indicated in the referendum, it has become clear that manifesto pledges are no longer worth the paper they are written on.  Who, then, to vote for?  Perhaps, like the lottery, our ballot papers could have a lucky-dip box on them.

Paul Baron, Knutsford, Cheshire.