Thanks El Loro...... Wonder how long it will be before the pledges are broken....

Thanks El Loro.
It is nice and convenient to have these links all in one place. Appreciated.

I wondered if Lal might do a sweep?
I'm particularly interested at what point Cameron will say, "We thought that we could mend Britain but the other Tories have left it in such a state that ...... etc."
One day, two days, or a week?

Here's a link to the Official Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto  http://www.loonyparty.com/inde...manifestoproposals-1

Thank you for that.  I've added it to the main list above.

I'd like to find time later to read those manifestos El Loro. Atm I'm catching sound bites here and there on tv from the 3 main parties. No one party of course can ever promise us what we'd all personally like to see happen or change, even if they did it wouldn't happen. They all have things I agree and disagree with, doubt I'm unusual in that but I wonder how many things I agree with would happen once they're in power, at this stage it's all yadda yadda and hype just to get elected. Personally I can't remember any huge positive change in my life after an election than before it.


From what I've heard so far my choice would be a vote for Labour or Lib Dems - the decades old 2 party system really needs a huge shake up and maybe this year is the one for that with all the disillusionment about politicians. Cameron is slick, desperate, fits into the mould of today where it's all about image but personally he lost 2 votes in our house when we heard he wants to repeal the Ban against fox hunting. I was listening to Brian May (Queen) on Sky and he is as passionate about animal welfare of all species as we are, and he's going to do his own campaign against Cameron's proposal. For some of us it can be just one issue that decides a vote of for or against a candidate.

I am totally disillusioned with them all. Every time any one of them come on the tv, I seem to be shouting at them "You're talking a load of bull! None of you can be trusted! You don't know what you're talking about! Or, you do, but you are going to try to pull the wool over our eyes again, as per usual!"

I've never felt this way before. God knows who I will finally decide to vote for.

I also would like the time to read all these manifestos, some of which are pretty lengthy. The trouble is that unless one looks at them and just rely on sound bites, it is easy to miss out important details. For instance the proposed tax changes to the working tax credit system. When the BBC news went through the Liberal Democrat menifesto yesterday, they talked about increasing the perosnal allowance to £10,000 which would save £700 for the lower paid wage earner, but there was a criticism that the average paid wage earner. what the BBC didn't mention was that in the manifesto, the Liberal Democrats would restrict the working tax credits to part pay for this, saving £1.3 billion in a full year. That's almost a quarter of the full annual cost of tax credits (£5.9 billion). The manifesto doesn't go into details in the manifesto, but else where on their website, they intend to restrict the credits so that the net result is that the lower paid would be overall winners, the average paid would have some restriction, but the higher paid would be the losers - probably no credits for those earning over £26,000.

I think you are voicing the view of the majority. The risk is that people will stay away on election day which could easily mean that the result would not be representative. Or people may decide to vote for one of the smaller parties in protest. If that resulted in say BNP candidates being elected and there being a hung parliament, the BNP could be in a position of being able to make bargains with one of the main parties. I don't believe that the vast number of people in the UK could stand that nightmare scenario, but that could happen.

So I believe that people should vote for the party that they find closest to their views rather than negatively. None of the main parties are ideal, and the expenses scandal has rocked confidence in our parliamentary system, but I would hope that politicians have learnt from their mistakes.

Indeed. But that will not be me. I have a vote, and I shall use it. Neither am I likely to vote for one of the smaller parties.I wonder if it would be beneficial to have a hung parliament this time? Perhaps with combined ideas some good could come of it?

I have now added the Green Party manifesto to the list above.

Thanks El Loro.
I was toying with, and attracted to the Greens some years ago.
I will take a look.

I've now added Englsih Democrats to the above list.

So far I have not been able to find links to the manifestos for any of the Northern Ireland parties or the SNP.

I've now added the Democratic Unionist Party to the above list.

http://www.snp.org/manifesto09

Oops it's for last years Euro elections..

But thanks for trying all the same. Maybe the SNP will publish their manifesto by May 6th.

The SNP have now published their manifesto and I have added it to the list above. I have also added the Scottish Green Party. Although the SDLP launched their manifesto today, I have not yet found it on their website.

I have added the manifestos for the Comunist Perty, Alliance for Green Socialism Party, Socialist Party, and the Scottish Equality Party to the above list. I realist that there are some omissions in the list, but I have not yet been able to find these other manifestos. I am not going to attempt to add manifestos for the hundreds of independent candidates as that would make the list too long. However this is a link to the Independent Kiddermister Hospital Campaign website which, although is an idependent party with one candidate, it does have considerable local support, and Richard Taylor was elected at the last election and is standing again.
And I've just added the TUSC which is a new party of trade union groups fielding some 40 candidates.

Today I have added the Libertarian Party, the Liberal Perty and the Pirate Party (UK) to the above list.

Thanks for your work on this El Loro.
It enables me to read some material which I might otherwise never have seen.

Darn it - the Pirate Party are crap. I was hoping for "Free cutlasses for all" or "No to the Euro, yes to pieces of eight", but instead it's all about boring copyright law.  

Aww I was hoping the pirate party had Johnny Depp as a candidate..ahrrrrr!

I wonder if there is any possibility of another Election Broadcast like one I watched years ago.  I can't remember what party it represented but I do remember there were all these gentlemen cross-legged on rugs who were bouncing up and down, it was very entertaining.

Yogic flyers??

I think it was something like that GJ, they were supposed to be levitating (but they were definitely bouncing) was there a party called yogic flyers?

aahhh, that was the Natural Law Party!

! It's Alan Partridge!

Social Democratic and Labour Party now added.

In view of the above postings, I had a look at The Natural Law Party website. It is no longer registered as a political party, so presumably will not be having any candidates. However this is a link to their existing manifesto. I have not included it in my main list at the top as it is not a 2010 election manifesto as such!

This is a link to The Jury Team Party website. Their manifesto document had been published in a series of PDF files which makes it inconvenient to include it in my main list. Also at present it appears that they have no candidates. You can find the documents from their front page under the heading Downloads from The Jury Team Book.

As we are a democratic country, I have added the BNP manifesto to the above list, though I detest the BNP.

I have added the Traditional Unionist Voice manifesto to my list. I have already included the TUSC manifesto. They seem to be separate parties.

El Loro, sorry to interrupt your thread. I`ve sent you a pm. My pooter scammer is back. Help!

Scotty, no problem - I've sent you a pm back - hope it helps. We ought to announce a Scammers Party, inviting all scammers along, then the authorities can swoop down and take them away.

If only  I got your pm and thanks for your advice  I`ll take it to my local man tomorrow.

Today's additions are Mebyon Kerrow (for the Cornish people)

National Front (as with the BNP manifesto, I have included as we are a democratic country, but personally I detest all they stand for)

Today I have added the Ulster Conservative and Unionist Party manifesto to my list.

I am aware that the Respect party launched its manifesto today, but have not yet been able to find it on their website.