Hello and welcome to Bureau economics now it is my severe misfortune to inform you

that there is an election coming up in this country where the pantomime is going to

continue to pretend to give us the impression that anything that we say actually has any bearing on the elites

whatsoever. But we do have election manifestos. Now I'm one of those slightly odd people who

actually reads them and I always have since the first general

election that I ever took you know even vaguely seriously which was 1997 I got involved in that

one and I got all of the manifestos and actually with them and I've done

that ever since. So I thought for this Brokonomics what we do is we take a look at the

manifestos. I don't think we're going to get through all of them in one go, especially since the label one I don't think comes out until the end of this week.

I mean you're going to be watching this a week in delay.

And on that actually, I hope that Ritchie Sunak hasn't just disappeared into a black hole by then because all of my gags will be out the window

whatever whatever I'm going to say about him I'm sure to be hellaiously witty

but obviously now Ritchie Sunnis is cruising towards zero seats,

labour is cruising towards a massive majority, and Lib Dems could actually be the official

opposition, so we should have a look at them as well and

reform are of course the big upset who might replace the Tories as a

center white party so so I think that these things deserve a little bit of

looking at so I'm gonna get So I'm going to get through the

Conservatives one, hopefully get through the Lib Dem one as well and then next week

I'll come back and do the Labour one and the Reform one next week so we know

where we are with these people because of course you

know elections these days they tend to run on gaffs and and memes and you know funny

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