The new normal

I was talking to a friend earlier this week about how routine and accepted the out of normal has become.

We see it, and accept it, and just move on. The news cycle moves on.

Take Johnson's relationship with the American tech start up entrepreneur. Who hasn't gone round to a young blonde's flat that just happens to have a pole for dancing, to have their e mails sorted? And who has been given over two hundred grand out of the public purse?

In normal times Johnson would have resigned in disgrace. Now its the new normal.

The fact Johnson cannot open his mouth without lying. In the past, the press and media would have called it out. Now they just repeat what he says. I mean, some of the stuff said was debunked two years ago, I know it, and journalists are paid and trained to spot this stuff. Why do they fail to do their job?

Like Brexit itself, yesterday, as a result of a FoI request, the treasury confirmed it had not conducted an impact assessment in Johnson's WAB and Political Declaration. and there were no plans to do so. In the real world, the decision to change toilet roll supplier to the civil service would require three separate quotes and the best value one chosen. But re-balancing the UK economy and international trade? All done on a wing and a prayer and a stack of lies.

And the story hardly make a ripple in the daily press! I mean, what the actual fuck!

It is like I am in a real life "They Live" where I can see the lies, and most of the rest of the country is willingly oblivious. In the end, we deserve Brexit, to find out what happens when the checks and balances of a functioning democracy are so easily cast aside.

Yesterday, the Conservative Party Central Office's Twitter account was renamed to make it look like an independent fact checking site, si it could run anti-Labour propaganda. This is a "blue tick" verified account. People have been banned or suspended for less. And yet Twitter gives them a slap on the wrist and tells them not to do it again, while people who shared screenshots of Aaron Bank's leaked e mail data had their accounts frozen in less than half an hour.

Yes, Aaron Banks, the "brains" behind something to do with Leave, who got £8 million to finance the campaign but there is no evidence were the eight billion rubles, sorry, pounds came from, had his account hacked and the data leaked. Seems like he called votes in the north of England "monkeys" and wasn't bothered if promises were broken as it would cost the votes of a few "northern monkeys".

Its all gone quiet on that front, for now, as the downloading of hacked information is illegal, but acting on it its sent is not.

This should have been a huge story, but instead its business as usual on the front pages in the fall out from Johnson's and Corbyn's first debate, where neither were very good. Johnson can't tell the truth and Corbyn can't say whether he wants Brexit or not. It's Corbyn's denial to answer the question on Brexit nine times that the frothing right wing press leads on.