howard mcsweeney1 wrote: When politicians visit a constituency they tell locals what they want to hear, they wouldn't get voted in otherwise. My favourite was andrew lansley who just clicked his fingers and promised us a state of the art hospital if his party ever gained power. I have been told that john prescott visited a long while back during a seafarers dispute and promised that if his party were elected they would get all sacked workers reinstated.
Most recently of course Charlie Elphicke, who stood on a platform of total opposition to privatisation of the Port of Dover, "not on my watch" were his very words, and then endorsed the fully fledged DPPT privatisation plan once he was elected.
My own personal all-time favourite was the egregious Tim Yeo who promised to flog off the Port of Dover and give all the proceeds - lock, stock, and barrel - to the people of Dover if the Conservatives were elected in 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4367549.stm