Government U-Turn, Policy Reversal, Accountability
Government U-Turn, Policy Reversal, Accountability
These are words that the popular press and even the government use frequently to describe how they are going against the wishes of their voters.
Cast your mind back to the Brexit campaigned (featured on this very blog HERE) where claims were made about huge savings – some £350M+ per week. Once the result was found, those who made such claims quickly disappeared and disassociated themselves.
Continuing with Brexit, we discover today that the government have decided to spend £44M on France and allow more immigrants through. This must be disappointing for Brexit voters.
This blog has a general principle of avoiding negativity, of being judgmental of others – though ruling parties are always fair game.
In this instance, this blog would like an explanation from the government of:-
- Why are election manifestos created? The assumption made by the general population is that such documents publish a party’s promises that they will fulfil should they be elected into power.
- Having been elected to power, what are acceptable reasons for the governing party to change their mid and perform a u-turn or policy reversal? This will mean adopting policies that were contrary to those in their election manifesto and therefore going against their election promises.
- Why are governments not held accountable to the promises made in their election manifesto? Some would argue that failure at the next general election is a measure of being held accountable. This blog would argue that this is nonsense, the damage is done at the time of the policy reversal which could be years before the next election.
This blog keenly awaits news from #UKGovernment #Westminster #BBC
There is noticeably a bundle to understand about this. I suppose you have made certain nice points in functions also.