evidence: The manifesto as a whole is packed with dog-whistle policies aimed at a small and rapidly dwindling minority of elderly, traditional conservatives, with no specific detail as to how any of the policies will be achieved. In any case, most are simply tinkering at the edges of our environmental crisis – more concerned with litter than climate change, for example. Worst of all – and this is especially true of the section on restoring water quality – the manifesto takes no account of 14 years of neglect, wilful mismanagement, corruption and misguided policies. It reads like a wish list for a party who have never been in power and have no chance of being in power in the foreseeable future. [...] The Conservative and Unionist Party Manifesto – by Henry Morris