RE: UK borrowing more than the 2 World Wars? Game on! Go gold!!!4 Mar 2021 12:24
Hi Mr Gnome,
Our present government has been so fortunate to have the pandemic to divert the public attention from the true state of the UK and he failed policies and deception of the present administration.
A new book by Peter Oborne chronicles Boris Johnson's history of deceit and how his time in Downing Street has poisoned British political culture.
In an interview with the American television network CBS earlier this month Boris Johnson sought to reassure president Joe Biden that he would do nothing to harm the Good Friday agreement.
Johnson tried to fudge the question of whether he would guarantee to keep the border open, but when cornered by CBS’s Margaret Brennan he said: “We want to make sure that there’s free movement, north-south, free movement east-west, and we guarantee the rights of the people of Northern Ireland, of course.”
The prime minister had better hope that a copy of political commentator Peter Oborne’s new book, The Assault on Truth, does not find its way into the Oval office, for it shows that Boris Johnson’s word means nothing. He lies, and lies, and lies, sometimes because it’s in his interests to deceive, sometimes just out of habit. You can tell when he’s lying – you can see his lips move.
We’re not talking here about the evasions and half-truths that are and have always been part of political life. Oborne’s short, readable, accessible and damning book is a record of a life spent in the shadowy world that natural liars inhabit, where truth is a tradable commodity.
Johnson’s Conservative Party doctored a video of Keir Starmer, then shadow Brexit secretary, to make it look as though Starmer did not know what to say when asked about Labour’s Brexit position. In fact, Starmer answered the question, immediately and fluently.
Johnson visited a hospital and told the doctors he had given up drink, the day after he was photographed drinking whisky in a distillery, and the day before he was photographed drinking beer in a brewery. This gained him nothing. Natural liars often can’t break the habit.
Brexit of course is built upon lies, and Johnson’s were the most egregious. Everyone knows about the NHS’s extra £350 million a week, which even Nigel Farage blanched at – it’s become such a cliché that one forgets how cruel a deception it was.
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