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I feel the same way, but don't see how it could be done.

The UK doesn't have a separate layer of constitutional law that's harder to change than the rest, each government can pass or repeal any law as they desire, including a law that tries to force them to keep promises.

Politicians could be well intentioned. They may find it much more difficult to accomplish those promises once in office, with the majority of hurdles being out of their control.

You jump to an extreme form of accountability when frankly any accountability at all would be a step wise improvement.

Time and time again the populous demonstrates it does not care about individually broken promises because we have aggregated power and choice far too much.

We often vote on representatives, but can't vote on individual issues, and even then binary, non-ranked voting further removed our individual power.