Wiggia's Week: The lost ‘art’ of lying

 

Politics has always contained statements and speeches riddled with untruths, adjusted facts, downright lies and hypocrisy, being economical with the truth has become an art form. That of course was in the days when we had political figures who could carry all that off to a degree lost in today’s ‘amateur’ world of the current incumbents of Westminster.

The belief among them that nobody will notice their deliberate distortions is in the case of the current Labour government off the scale, lies are trotted out at such a rate that the use of u-turns to reverse the obvious faux pas, has everyone in a spin as daily we get fed evermore untrue and manipulated ‘facts’; even those with popularity ratings in the minus section continue to trot out the same garbage.

None of this is helped as the “here today, gone tomorrow” minnows in the political spectrum attempt to make a mark during the short tenure in a post, a post in most cases that they have absolutely no connection with in any form. They are all mediocre non-entities promoted above their abilities.

“Out of touch” is a phrase frequently lobbed in the direction of these nonentities that have by some strange means ended up in Parliament and even Cabinet positions. Nearly all have never had a job outside of politics or charity positions so it is not unexpected when they lie to cover their inadequacies having never had to deal with everyday living on a personal basis.

This recent interview with a former Labour supporter says it all about being out of touch. Not only was she a Labour supporter but he had visited her before, so a safe meeting, or so he thought. He didn’t like what she said about the changes in her area and resorted to his standard fall back phrase and called her racist, quite extraordinary that this person is leading (?) the country or supposed to be.

Much is made of the advisors and civil servants who do the heavy (?) lifting in the background as without them these inadequates would be no different to those cardboard cut-out figures one used to see outside of the likes of butcher’s shops and petrol stations - at least they served a purpose, to show the way in.

Our current PM is possibly the worst example of this genre. Not having the wit charm or guile to make any speech or statement believable he flounders and the following day makes things worse by either lying again or u-turning; in his case it is the total lack of any feel for what the nation thinks or believes. Surely his advisors cannot be of the same ilk to a man, but that is how it appears, they are all cut from the same cloth.

Albert RN - would anyone notice the difference if he was installed as PM?

Ed Miliband runs the PM close in the ‘economical’ stakes, he would be top if given more air time. His ‘the public will save £300 on energy bills’ has morphed into an increase of £150 and rising. Strangely he believes our most expensive energy costs, the highest in the western world, are the result of outside factors. These outside factors have no effect on any other countries to the same degree but we are supposed to swallow a blatant lie: his end of the world scenario is borne out by the science. We have heard it all before but he still spouts the same drivel. Naturally these ‘end of days’ statements have been official folk lore for a long time.

The Health Secretary and the PM have joined forces in lying about the millions of extra (?) appointments the NHS has provided this year, when if you speak to anyone who is waiting for any of the aforementioned they will tell you they have had cancellations and re-appointments a-go-go this year. I personally know of two recently that have had up to five cancellations for procedures in a short space of time, others have said similar. The only way you can get a firm date for a procedure is to arrive in the country in a dinghy and get your teeth fixed while you wait.

These people are not lied to. Agreements drawn up without the public’s consent see illegal migrants looked after with every detail fully adhered to, no lying in that area, but by now we know all that.

At all levels people tell porkies, as I said it is now so common that they can be seen through at first utterance. When Yasmin Alibhai Brown says she goes into pubs to argue with white people about how they are failing to integrate - I don’t think I believe her; when the Home Secretary talks as she did the other day about her many Jewish friends after the synagogue murders I don’t believe her.

When a recent Labour advisor during the Birmingham bin strike said that she knew what was behind the strike as she knew many bin men! she fell into the things that never happened category and lied.

TTK (Two Tier Keir)’s obsession, along with Blair about digital ID to stop the boats, was always just a fig leaf for other uses. He lied as a week on we have before being released, mission creep! Last week it was to stop the boats, now its bills and benefits, next week it’ll be your movement licence in and out of your 15 minute ghetto, followed by your carbon tracker and digital ration book plus how many of your Tesco Club points you can use on non-eco items.

This is her ‘frighten the children’ look

When Darren Jones, Labour minister, states on Question Time that 80% of the people on the boats coming across the channel are women and children! has he spent too much time in the sun? No one of sound mind could come out with that and expect to be believed; such a blatant lie.

Misleading is the replacement word used most. One would have to be very kind of heart to use that word in the situations shown and many others. The amount of misleading statements put out by our Chancellor are really just one gigantic lie, but then she lied about her CV so shame is another word that has been discarded.

It is very noticeable that when interviewed our Chancellor or her predecessors never have a real life accountant from the public sector that actually works daily in the sector interviewing them. Understandable really when the quality of those in charge is of such a low standard and that has been a trend for some years. When a lie becomes the stock answer to a problem we are in serious trouble, and we are.