Howard's manifesto
There is now information up on the Conservatives' website. His speech is here, the (rather similar) introduction to the manifesto is here.As yet no manifesto, so it's hard to come to any judgement on what he has to say. Much of the detail is good. But nevertheless the initial reaction is to laugh at it. When politicans start to speak of 'forgotten majorities' you can pretty well be sure that they don't exist.
And indeed so it seems. Members of his 'forgotten majority' include unbelievably home-owners, who I believe have had the best 8 years in history, and -- pretty rarely for public policy - an 8 years that can be explained by this government's policy decision to give the Bank of England independence, which of course Michael Howard voted against.
posted by Matthew @ 1/04/2005 01:35:00 PM
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