Political Manifesto: The most unread pieces of documentation ever written. Documents such as these, also known to some as, "A Tissue of Lies", are generally published in the weeks and months before a UK General Election.
In the General Election 2017 (as seen on BBC - ed) this has been in the weeks before the election due to its rather novel title of, "A Snap Election - or cut and run whilst the polls are in your favour (tm)".
The point of a Manifesto is to (fool the electorate - ed), set out each of the political parties plans for the damage they will do to the country IF (big if - ed) they gain a majority of the Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons.
The smarter of the parties will put nothing of any importance into the document, as it will potentially tie their hands if they manage to inveigle (fool the voting public in sufficient numbers - ed) on their way into becoming the Government.
A Government likes to have as few, "Manifesto Promises - or lies by any other name (tm)", as possible to adhere to, (these promises are of profound import, and changing your mind or breaking a manifesto promise is seen by some as the most heinous political crime ever envisaged - ed)
The more honest (and so less likely to be actually elected) of the parties, put in as much detail as possible to convince the general public that they know what they are doing.
These honest and so totally unelectable parties want to ensure that there are at least one or two parts of their manifesto that anyone, who is wavering in their allegiance to another party, might find it within themselves to vote for them, because of something (anything at all, go on vote for me) they liked in the manifesto.
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