Can they say one thing but no go through with it?

[Gemz1806]

What I want to know is can a party write something in their manifesto but not actually do it? If we were to look back at the previous elections how many things actually happened?

Is it all just words? My heart is saying one thing but my head is saying another? If what my head is reading is just pipe dreams should I ignore it??

They can and they sometimes do but every time that happens they get a lot of grief for it from the public and the press and it damages their chances in the next election, so most parties try to avoid breaking manifesto promises too much.

Do you remember the saga of Nick Clegg promising to scrap tuition fees then ending up in a coalition with the Conservatives and losing the internal battle with them about it so he couldn't deliver on it? He got a terrible time over it and it massively damaged the LibDems, not entirely fairly, given the coalition aspect.

Of course they do. Manifestos are idealistic and when the election is over situations can change which means a manifesto "pledge" is no longer feasible. For instance, if Labour win money will very likely flood out of the UK and the £will nosedive. All the costing pre election would be an irrelevance so the manifesto would be meaningless.