“This election’s manifestos, one regrets to report, remain unenlivened by a single obscenity. Ukip’s bellicose little document aside, they are decent, civilised, kid-gloved affairs, reluctant for the most part to go on the offensive against the other parties for fear of negative campaigning.
By a striking coincidence, almost all of them advocate a prosperous economy, a better deal for young people, a better deal for old people, a better deal for farmers, babies and badgers, a world-class educational system, affordable housing, controlled but fair immigration, the best possible start in life for your child, higher wages for everybody and equal opportunities for all. Only the Greens break with this bland consensus by having a special policy for helping bees.
Not a single manifesto has the guts to declare its intention to discriminate against people with freckles, strip the inhabitants of Swansea of their civil rights, deport Bruce Forsyth or promise a free bottle of whisky a day to every household. Most of them promise to put the patient first when it comes to the NHS, rather than breaking with this banal orthodoxy and prioritising syringes or stethoscopes instead.”
East Devon Watch 