I have been rereading Peter Oborne’s book The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarianism just to remind myself of the never ending stream of lies that Johnson has told the British public to win the Brexit vote and the win the 2019 election. Meticulously researched and fact checked, it’s a book that every single person in the electorate should read.
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It is unimaginable that a compulsive liar such as Johnson could have been chosen to lead the Conservative Party in a previous era, let alone elected Prime Minister. There was a time before the emergence of political parties as we know them today when it was normal for ministers to lie, cheat and fabricate. In the eighteenth century, many of Britain’s most famous writers and journalists were paid by the government to apply their literary skills to undermine opponents. Meanwhile ministers made huge sums from corruption vindicating *Ambrose Bierce’s famous description of politics as the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ministers did not want voters or rival politicians to to know how government money was being spent so there was limited accountablilty and often zero integrity in public administration.
*Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary
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Johnson has taken the nation back to that era, lie after lie after lie which the right wing media has repeated and the majority of voters have swallowed.
Surely there must be some people in the Tory party who do still have integrity so why do they continue to support Johnson so that he remains in office? How do they sleep at night knowing the Prime Minister is a systematic and compulsive liar and had hoodwinked the British public time and time again?
When Johnson says he will serve the people he means that he will go on lying to the people for his own personal advancement and that of his friends. Make no mistake, he will continue to lie because he cannot stop himself. And why stop when you know you can get away with it?
