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Make election manifesto pledges legally binding
Make election pledges legally binding and make it mandatory that they all have target dates. If they are not achieved by the target date then a new election can be called by the opposition.
Why is this important?
This will go a great way to re-engaging the general public with politics and increasing trust in politicians. There would be obvious problems when coalition governments occur, but this would have to be written into the manifesto promises, i.e. If we are given a majority we would do this.. If we are in coalition we would do this.. Therefore whomever they enter into a coalition with would understand what bargains they are entering into from the start. This would limit rash promises and give much greater weight to any promises that are made.
