Labour Promises Impossible Broadband For All

Did you ever read Animal Farm? The story tells of the animals taking over the farm and the pigs become the governing group. They make all sorts of bold claims of what they can and will achieve but when they see they cannot do what they said they would do they simply paint out the old slogans and replace them with new ones, so confident are they that people will forget.

The Labour manifesto is available online and unlike previous elections where a printed copy was all that was available an online copy can be altered and amended any time the publishers want to do so. I wonder if this will be a regular feature in the future and the manifesto will be regularly updated, i.e. changed, to reflect the most recent thoughts on what can be done in the future, whichever party is elected, so anything that never gets done can just be painted over. I hope not but frankly Labour seem only interested in clinging on to power whatever the cost to the country. Gordon Brown is convinced he should be Prime Minister regardless of what anyone else thinks and that being the case you have to wonder at his judgment.

My thoughts about Animal Farm were prompted by what appears to have been a correction to the online version of the manifesto. Yesterday it was claiming that “broadband speeds of two megabytes per second will be made available to nearly everyone in the UK by 2012″ but today it doesn’t!

Yes, it was probably a typing error but then maybe so was the Iraq war? Or the Financial crash Gordon so enthusiastically took us into with his groveling congratulations to the bankers on how well they were doing only months before everything all went tits-up and he had to notice he had totally failed to do his job as chancellor, i.e. manage the economy.

We all seem to have little trust or admiration for Members of Parliament these days. The instant editing of promises, that the internet allows to occur, will be something we need to watch in future years, regardless of who is elected and then claims that 25% of the electorate voting for them gives them a ringing endorsement of their policies.