Saturday, August 28, 2010

Manifesto Update

My previous post examined the 3 manifestos of the major UK political parties. I thought I'd update this and take a look at what the Lib Dem/Conservative coalitian party had to say and how drastic they may have had to change their collective tunes.

Here is the viz:
Text source: http://www.libdems.org.uk/

It's interesting to see that during the election campain these parties were trying to differentiate themselves from each other. However, when it came down to actually running the country the one thing they couldn't emphasize too much was that the 'parties agree' on many of the issues.

Surprisingly the terms 'liberal', 'democrat', 'democrats' appear more than the term 'Conservative' which did not feature in the top 50 of words.

What do you think?