Monday, 3 May 2021

By convention

By convention, any member who makes an inaccurate satement at the Disptch Box in the Commons, should, at the soonest oportunity, return to correct the record.

Johnson has made multiple untrue statements, lies if you will, and has not corrected the record.

If a member accuses another member of lying, the Speaker will demand that the comment be retracted or face suspension. But the PM lies as the Dispatch Box, and the Speaker can do nothing.

Even if it proven, outside the House, that the PM has mislead Parliament, Johnson faces no sanction.

This is because, UK politics has always operated on the "good chap" policy in that a good chap will always do what right and/or be relied on to do what's right.

And Johnson, having been to Eton and Oxbridge, should be the very definition of a good chap.

But isn't.

Johnson has always believed himself to be above such contraints as the truth or doing actual work, just being himself, saying what needs to be said to get through, even if that means promising opposite things to different groups.

It won't matter, as Johnson lets everyone down in the end, even himself.

Even when his lies are revealed to be just that, like stating that there will be no border in the Irish Sea, despite that being exactly what he negotiated, and as he siad it, infrastructure was being built, there was no consequence for his lies.

He stated there would be no new non-tariff bariers, yet the very fact leaving the SM and CU mandated that there would be a huge increase in red tape.

No consequences, for Johnson. Though for businesses who found they suddenly became uneconomic, or exporting next to impossoble, or that the Loyalist community things, correctly, they have been thrown under a big red bus with the NIP, there might yet be consequences, but there is always Johnny Foriegner to blame, or the press to not report it.

Or something.

Now that the truth or facts don't matter, and even if the PM, the man in highest office to whom the highest standards should be kept to, when he lies and Parliament, his party, the press and the electorate just shugs and explains it thus: "it's Boris being Boris, the country is royally fucked.

So, to his flat. Their flat.

Does it matter who paid?

Yes.

Not because the identity of that person(s) but what they got in return, so we can judge how much it costs to buy a Prime Minister. Buy our Prime Minister.

This is important, democracy, public health, should not be for sale.

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