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Boris Says There Are Fifty Shades Of Gray
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Boris ( our prime minister silly!) has met Sue Gray. They have discussed her forthcoming report. The report is likely to be critical as fixed penalties have been issued and paid.
The hacks and journos are having a field day and saying the Prime Minister must allay suspicions that he is trying to revise the final wording.
What do Abers ( and Boris supporter are allowed a say: I believe in Free Speech !) think about the idea that when BJ opens his mouth a decent proportion think he will lie ?
The hacks and journos are having a field day and saying the Prime Minister must allay suspicions that he is trying to revise the final wording.
What do Abers ( and Boris supporter are allowed a say: I believe in Free Speech !) think about the idea that when BJ opens his mouth a decent proportion think he will lie ?
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At PMQs on 1 December 2021, Keir Starmer asked: “As millions of people were locked down, was a Christmas party thrown in Downing Street for dozens of people on 18 December 2020?”
Boris Johnson replied: “All guidance was followed completely in Number 10.”
That's a lie, TTT. Not an opinion.
If it was an opinion, he would have said “In my opinion, all guidance was followed completely in Number 10” or "To the best of my understanding, all guidance was followed completely in Number 10” or even the tactic he later started employing, “I am reliably informed that all guidance was followed completely in Number 10.”
But he gave a bald statement of fact that was wrong, when he knew all along what was going on in the place where he lived and worked and partied. He lied about it.
In this case his standard tactic of evading the specific question worked against him. Asked about an actual event, he replied about Downing Street generally, with a whopper of a lie.
Boris Johnson replied: “All guidance was followed completely in Number 10.”
That's a lie, TTT. Not an opinion.
If it was an opinion, he would have said “In my opinion, all guidance was followed completely in Number 10” or "To the best of my understanding, all guidance was followed completely in Number 10” or even the tactic he later started employing, “I am reliably informed that all guidance was followed completely in Number 10.”
But he gave a bald statement of fact that was wrong, when he knew all along what was going on in the place where he lived and worked and partied. He lied about it.
In this case his standard tactic of evading the specific question worked against him. Asked about an actual event, he replied about Downing Street generally, with a whopper of a lie.
"No one says "I believe Spurs will win the cup" or "in my opinion Spurs will win the cup", do they?" Both of those are about the future but the claim Johnson made was about the past.
It was about activities that had already taken place and he did not qualify it in any way to make it clear it was anything other than something he knew to be factual.
It was about activities that had already taken place and he did not qualify it in any way to make it clear it was anything other than something he knew to be factual.
I have extracted these two ‘Best Answers’ from recent AB posts (which may help TTT in his understanding of Boris’s lies).
#1
This is boring. People who think Boris Johnson doesn't tell lies can't be reasoned with, much like Trump supporters. I wouldn't bother.
#2
People seem to want to make excuses for Boris on the basis that everybody lies.
There is a difference between lying about things you've done and lying about things you intend to do. Boris has lied about things he's done.
There is a difference between lying to Parliament and lying to an acquaintance. Boris has lied to Parliament.
There is a difference between lying as PM and lying as somebody else. Boris has lied as PM.
Boris is an inveterate liar. He should resign, most people in his place would have by now, but he won't. His fellow Tory MPs should fire him, but they won't, because the majority of them have lost the moral and ethical principles they need to fire him.
If he was to be gone, who should replace him? Literally any other Tory MP that they elected as Leader in his place. That would be fine. That's as it should be. Having an inveterate liar as PM, lying to Parliament about the things that they've done, is not as it should be.
#1
This is boring. People who think Boris Johnson doesn't tell lies can't be reasoned with, much like Trump supporters. I wouldn't bother.
#2
People seem to want to make excuses for Boris on the basis that everybody lies.
There is a difference between lying about things you've done and lying about things you intend to do. Boris has lied about things he's done.
There is a difference between lying to Parliament and lying to an acquaintance. Boris has lied to Parliament.
There is a difference between lying as PM and lying as somebody else. Boris has lied as PM.
Boris is an inveterate liar. He should resign, most people in his place would have by now, but he won't. His fellow Tory MPs should fire him, but they won't, because the majority of them have lost the moral and ethical principles they need to fire him.
If he was to be gone, who should replace him? Literally any other Tory MP that they elected as Leader in his place. That would be fine. That's as it should be. Having an inveterate liar as PM, lying to Parliament about the things that they've done, is not as it should be.
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