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Spacewolf posted:More is good! I'll note that, from my perspective as an American, a lot of this is enlightening as hell. When I decided to start reading/posting in UKMT I decided I had to read all of that month's thread to catch up. Then I realised that was an exercise in folly. Because it's basically a current affairs/events thread it obviously moves along quickly, and there's very few discussions that go on for page after page. So you'll be fine. Just jump in!
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and just...run away crying.....)
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HalPhilipWalker posted:From the previous page Broadly, yeah, the British public take party manifestos at face value. The voters will likely remember if there were big manifesto pledges that you don't go through with. Except in Scotland where the SNP were able to get away with promising to replace Council Tax with a less regressive system & then promptly spending the next 9 years just freezing Council Tax increases. But there are usually articles at the end of a Parliament showing how the government did against their promises before the last election. And people read them, & nod or shake their head. That said, governments do things that weren't mentioned in the manifesto & it's not that big a deal: the bigger issue is promising something & then failing to deliver. Which is why manifestos end up filled with nonsense like "we'll ensure the 2012 Olympics are good".
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