Il Guardian controlla le promesse del governo

Una volta che la campagna elettorale è chiusa e il governo si è insediato, le chiacchiere dovrebbero stare a zero e il lavoro della maggioranza dovrebbe poter essere misurato coi fatti. Così il Guardian ha preso i quattrocento e passa impegni presi fin qui dalla coalizione di centrodestra che ha preso il potere poche settimane fa e ha avviato un servizio di tracciamento – il Coalition Pledge Tracker – per misurare quanto e come questi impegni verranno mantenuti.

A month or so into the coalition’s life, Simon Hughes, a non-ministerial Liberal Democrat widely seen as on the party’s left, said: “The coalition deal is a deal. There cannot be any unpicking of items in that deal, otherwise the whole thing risks falling apart.”

Today we are releasing a device to track that deal, or at least the pledges in it. We call it a pledge tracker.

The idea is straightforward: it takes 435 pledges from the coalition programme for government (and some earlier agreements) and tells you what stage each one is at

Wait and see
The default starting place for every pledge. We have no reason to think the government won’t act on it, they just haven’t told us how

In progress
A pledge can move to this state if it has fulfilled one of the following criteria: It is in legislation; it will be in legislation announced in the Queen’s speech; the relevant department has made a public announcement it is currently developing proposals; the members of a review or commission have been named

In trouble
The pledge is in progress but has met stiffer than expected opposition and may not make it through in its current form

Kept
Legislation is passed, a department has acted or a commission or review reported its findings

Not kept
The pledge has been dropped – or what we have ended up with is substantially different from where the government started

Broken in spirit
For those times when the coalition has fulfilled the letter of the pledge, but not kept to the policy that a reasonable person would have inferred from it. (An example is the pledge to reduce the child trust fund for high earners. The entire scheme was scrapped – so, yes, while higher earners did see reductions the burden didn’t fall just on them, as the coalition agreement suggested it would.)

Hard to track
When the coalition says Britain will play a “positive” role in Europe there’s not much we can do with it. Luckily there are only a few of these

Leggi l’intera presentazione di Simon Jeffry sul Politics Blog del Guardian. E naviga dentro al Coalition Pledge Tracker.

(Grazie per la segnalazione a Spot Us Italia)