Another day, another two Tory policy review blunders

You’d have thought that by now that someone in the Conservative Party might have learnt to check their policy review documents carefully before printing them. I mean, how embarrassing is it to publish a document that points four different contradictory ways on the same policy, be caught out using ten years old data or propose a new law that is, er…, already about to come into force anyway?

Well, they’ve done it again. And again. Not one but two more blunders.

Blunder one – following from their triumphant success of proposing a change in the legal age of smoking which is going to happen anyway, they’ve now proposed to outlaw the stand by functionality on TVs. One slight problem. The Government has already announced plans to do just that. Oops.

Blunder two – they want to scrap a tax which, er…, doesn’t exist. I guess that makes a change from keeping so coy about what they will actually do about taxes which do exist :-)

More details over at Liberal Burblings.

PS Does anyone actually check these documents, do you think?

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4 Comments

  • welshproudliberal
    Posted 9th September 2007 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    exactly, exactly, exactly!

  • Stuart
    Posted 9th September 2007 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

    Maybe Grant Shapps does?

  • Bernard Salmon
    Posted 10th September 2007 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

    While this is all good knockabout stuff, are we quite sure that all our policy documents would stand up to such close scrutiny?

  • Cy Pomeroy
    Posted 10th September 2007 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    You just could’nt make it up could you. Inept or what.

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