Manifestos.

I HAVE been reading what I think are manifestos although I cannot be sure because the parties are not calling them as such, I think because the majority of people are aware that manifestos have by and large been proven as brochures of broken promises or possibly even lies. The first I read was Labour's 'Let's Get Britain's Future Back'. I do not know what to say about it. Page after page reads with the same headings, 'Time for a Change', 'The Tories Have Failed', and 'Labour Has Changed'. I agree with the first two headings, but how can I or anyone be certain of the last? I cannot find a single definite policy in the entire document on things which matter to me. There are some definite policies. A new energy company called Great British Energy will be instituted evidently and the energy will be clean. I am too weary to even care about such a policy, I believe it is all ironically a smokescreen, and that these clean energy methods are made in China.

   Mr. Starmer cuts a dignified figure I will say, but he says nothing about immigration. I will say at once, if he assured the country upon an unbreakable oath that he would put an end to immigration, both legal and illegal, and if I felt I could be trust his word, he would have my vote even at the expense of other policies I do not care a penny-farthing about; even if I had to walk through ancient Oxford and Cambridge and constantly shield my eyes from the glare of all the vile solar panels. But this is the one thing I expect him to do nothing about. The document is full of problems identified. Housing shortages, housing expenses, increasing rates of crime, N.H.S. delays and failings, but there seems to be almost no recognition of the obvious fact that these are all symptoms of overpopulation. This country is like a boiling pot of stew, and immigration is the gas. Other say, 'we will turn down the heat', he says nothing, but I say, 'This pot is about to burn through the bottom, turn the thing off.'

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