It’s a sad state of affairs that no one expects the parties actually to do everything they promise. But what would happen if our newly elected leader actually carried out their entire manifesto? What would the country look like? That’s what our “simulection” series tries to show.
As with the 2010 and 2015 elections, we’re not going to simulate the election process. That’s for braver souls than us, souls who use reams of historical data and complex mathematical technology, and spend weeks sweating over statistical anomalies, only to be horribly surprised like the rest of us when a costume monkey gets elected. Our simulation is mainly for fun, though it does at least test whether a policy can be implemented at all.
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