The coalition’s half-time score

Yesterday, the coalition released its mid-term self-assessment, comparing the commitments made in its Programme for Government back in May 2010 to the policies it has actually implemented to date. Sadly, it does not allow for a simple tick/cross exercise as to whether each commitment has been kept, as there is a lot of grey area. Some of the promises were too vague, some may be being stuck to but haven’t been delivered yet, and on others it depends how charitable you’re willing to be to the government.

I’ve therefore given each commitment a tick (delivered), a cross (not delivered at all) or a question mark (those you might give a tick if you’re being kind to the coalition, or might give a cross if not). My scoring simply takes everything in the review at face-value, so if the agreement promises ‘we will do x’ and the review says ‘we have done x’, it gets a tick.