The Conservatives have officially released their election manifesto, a document that details their positions for the upcoming May 6th General Election.
David Cameron, Leader of the Conservative Party, announced the manifesto today, and covered its main platforms. Its key focus is on the "working people", whom Mr. Cameron and the Conservatives will need to decidedly win over if they hope to take the next election. The Conservatives have been criticized in the past for their limited electoral platform, which has focused on a limited range of issues benefiting mainly the middle- and upper-classes. Mr. Cameron and co. have addressed these complaints accordingly.
"We stand for the working people that Labour has abandoned with their jobs tax and their waste," he said. "We stand for the idealists that the Liberal Democrats will inevitably disappoint because they cannot win this race."
The Conservatives need to win 116 seats to form a government, the most since the 1931 election that thrust them back into power after a period of weakness. The Tories hope to repeat that feat next month.
The Tories have stressed reducing the record £167 billion fiscal deficit, a pet peeve for conservatives of all stripes, though they have also paradoxically proposed an increased in health care spending, a move that the Tories claim will lead to a more "efficient and effective in the way we run the health service."
Only May 6th (and the polls leading up to then) will tell if this manifesto will persuade British voters to vote Conservative.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/13/david-cameron-launches-conservative-manifesto
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Banksy
looks like budget cutting has already started.
ReplyDeleteWith the current currency crisis, Cameron has continued the tradition of GB nationalism and refuses to switch to the euro.
"We don't want to see transfer of powers from Westminster to Brussels. That is very clearly set out in the coalition agreement," he said.