Commentary
This column was of necessity written before the election on Monday, so I don’t know who the winner or winners will be. But I am confident that to predict their actual policies going forward you should immediately download their platform directly into your recycle bin. Which does rather raise the question of why politicians create them and why we let them.
To test their predictive value, I invite you to go back and look at platforms from so long ago that they could at least have been used to wrap fish and see how little that was in them got implemented. And while I concede that one problem with party platforms is that they tend to be overtaken by events, there’s something disingenuous in creating them knowing about that problem. And it gets worse….