Re: The Tories are no strangers...
but my dear chap, the world situation changed in the period from when we gave you those promises and now.
To be fair, all of the manifesto pledges in the last election were (purportedly) what each party would do if they won the election, and none of them won the election. Pledges are "If you vote us in to power, we will do this", they aren't "If you vote the Tories in to a minority government and we by happenstance become the makeweight that allows them to enact laws, we hopefully will be allowed to do this"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
