Promises, promises

Conservatives have been in power, either in coalition or on their own, since May 2010. Over nine and a half years.

The policies they are currently pushing and will do further when their manifesto is published later today, they could have enacted at any point in those nine and a half years.

But they haven't.

Even worse than that, the these new policies will just serve to change the policies they have been pushing in that time, so the line of questioning my journalists should be, you got it wrong for so long, why trust you now.

But they won't.

20,000 extra police?

To replace the 20,600 posts they scrapped. Natural wastage caused by retirement means that 9,000 a police retire each year, the 20,000 will not make an improvement at all.

Cutting hospital parking fees? Could have been done at any point, already scrapped in Scotland and Wales. Anyway, although I am against the principle of hospital parking charges, for many local authorities it is used as a revenue stream as Government cut their funding. Where will the shortfall come from, or will there have to be yet more cuts?