For far too long we have seen parties pushing their Manifesto pledges to gain our vote, and effectively elect them into employment. Thats the basic result of an election. We vote based on their Manifesto pledges/ promises and they use this to gain “employment “. By gaining said employment they then receive a wage/ salary and also expenses.
As we have seen with Labour, they rescinded their Manifesto pledges/ promises AFTER being elected/ employed into office, thereafter receiving the salary for their elected role.
There is another way to look at this, and it has NEVER been tried, or even raised, maybe its a pointless view however i will explain:
Fraud includes Representation: representation is defined as “false” if it is untrue or misleading and the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading. Actual knowledge that the representation might be untrue is required not awareness of a risk that it might be untrue.
So my point is by publishing a Manifesto to gain “employment “ which then brings “financial gain” and to then negate said Manifesto which elected them to this position, should surely be seen as obtaining goods ( salary and expenses) by deception ( not implementing Manifesto on which elected) ?
Maybe this is an angle we need to explore further .
