Whether it's Tory austerity masked as stability or Labour's progressive ideals slipping into corporate appeasement, both parties have become experts at delivering disappointments.
Conservative Party (Tories) – The Party of Broken Pledges
Taxes: "No New Taxes" (Except for All the New Taxes)
Promise: Boris Johnson’s 2019 assurance that taxes would not rise.
Reality: By 2021, National Insurance was increased, and frozen tax thresholds left workers with less—undermining the "low-tax" Tory promise.
NHS: A Funding "Boost" That Left Hospitals Struggling
Promise: £34 billion more for the NHS by 2023-24.
Reality: The funding fell short, and the NHS faced record wait times, crumbling infrastructure, and historic strikes.
Immigration: "Take Back Control" (Then Fail to Deliver)
Promise: Brexit would reduce migration and secure borders.
Reality: Net migration surged to 745,000, the Rwanda plan became a failure, and the Tories couldn’t fulfill their key Brexit promise.
Environment: Green Claims, But More Pollution
Promise: Achieve net-zero by 2050.
Reality: Sunak delayed the petrol car ban, approved new oil drilling, and sided with fossil fuel interests over climate action.
Labour Party – The Party of Broken Ideals
Education: "No Tuition Fees" (Then Tripling Them)
Promise: Tony Blair’s 1997 pledge: “We will not introduce tuition fees.”
Reality: By 1998, fees were introduced at £1,000/year, and now they exceed £9,250—leaving students with crippling debt.
Iraq War: "Peacemakers" Who Waged War
Promise: Labour positioned itself as the party of diplomacy.
Reality: Blair led Britain into an illegal war based on false pretenses, causing millions of deaths and instability in the Middle East.
Housing: "More Social Homes" (Then Selling Them Off)
Promise: Build more social housing.
Reality: Blair and Brown accelerated privatisation, failing to meet housing needs, and contributing to today’s crisis.
Economy: From Corbyn’s Vision to Starmer’s Capitulation
Promise: Nationalise railways, utilities, and tax the rich (2019).
Reality: Under Starmer, Labour dropped radical ideas for centrist, corporate-friendly policies.