Election pledges - Promises, promises...

WITH the election campaign hotting up, auction politics is now the name of the game.

As highlighted in these columns, the frenzied proliferation of voter-friendly policies underlines just how important it is for people to cast a cold eye on pledges from all parties.

This is borne out by our analysis of promises issued in the last local election campaign. Some 18 months later, it is beyond dispute that many of the key policies unwrapped barely a week before polling day have not been honoured.