Promises hard to keep in coalition

One thing you can guarantee leading up to an election is parties will throw money at you with all kinds of promises. With all this talk about austerity, it’s as if they all have a money tree that only appears just before an election.

There is only a finite amount of money in the pot. To keep these promises some budget has to be cut or someone somewhere will have to lose a job. I call them ‘Election Bribes’ that in today’s political atmosphere you really can’t guarantee due to the fact of coalition politics.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was today talking about low cost taxpayer-funded loans designed to help young people get into their first rental property by paying the cost of the deposit - usually a month or six weeks' rent. Nice you may think, but wait a minute there is no chance of him being Prime Minister even if he manages to get his deputy Prime Minister job back his promises may not be kept.

Remember the tuition fee promise he made before the last election. Broken because he couldn’t deliver due to the fact the Tories said no to the policy. However, they were willing to throw the promise in the dustbin for a few jobs around the government table. Most parties have their own policies to help first time buyers and help for the younger generation. The Tories have a system to help first time buyers so does the Labour party and the other parties who are hoping to have a say in the makeup of the new government come May 9th.