Tuesday, December 02, 2025

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.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

PMQs and Budget - 26th November 2025

Today we will group PMQs by Party.

LABOUR

Rachel Hopkins celebrated the freeze on rail season ticket prices. Cat Eccles urged buying in the High Street rather than online. Leigh Ingham wanted road-building projects to be completed more speedily. Luke Akehurst criticised Reform’s Durham county council for cutting support for working families. Jenny Riddell-Carpenter said the Tory-led Suffolk county council should improve safety measures outside schools. Jen Craft quoted the Covid inquiry’s figure (based on modelling) of 23,000 preventable deaths cause by the Johnson government’s delays. Mrs Sureena Brackenridge congratulated a men’s health organisation. Ben Coleman said we should boost economic growth by closer trade ties with the EU, blaming difficulties on the Tories’ “poorly managed exit” from that organisation. Emily Darlington campaigned for the “White Ribbon promise to never use, excuse or remain silent about men’s violence against women.”

CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION LEADER

Mrs Badenoch paid tribute to the farmers who had come that day to Westminster to protest the family farm tax.

She noted that the OBR’s analysis of the Budget had been leaked prematurely and quoted the former chief economist of the Bank of England as saying that Labour’s “fiscal fandango” is “the single biggest reason growth has flatlined.”

She called on the PM to deny that his advisers had briefed against members of the Cabinet. He did so, at least as regards those at “No. 10.” She replied that his Chief of Staff had investigated himself and found himself innocent.

She noted that the PM had said he wanted Angela Rayner back in the Cabinet despite her recent resignation for tax evasion. Would Rayner be made to pay her tax and return her severance pay? Sir Keir did not say yes or no to that.

Mrs Badenoch summed-up by saying his government is chaotic and has lost the trust of his MPs, the markets and the public.

OTHER CONSERVATIVES

Mark Pritchard spoke of a hypersonic and ballistic missile threat from Russia, to which we have no “current counter”; how would the PM keep us safe? Lewis Cocking talked of the economic cost of roadworks and traffic jams.

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER

Ed Davey asked why Labour were raising taxes instead of “fixing the £90 billion Brexit black hole in the public finances” with a better trade deal with the EU. Following the jailing of Reform’s leader (Nathan Gill) in Wales, he also wanted the PM to launch an investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics; China was not mentioned.

OTHER LIB DEMS

Alison Bennett highlighted the problem of patients who could not leave hospital because care packages were not in place. Josh Babarinde deplored the lack of a statutory requirement to report incidents of physical restraint on school transport for SEN children, also of national training standards. Sarah Dyke wished the PM to rethink the damaging family farm tax. Adam Dance asked Sir Keir to safeguard defence-related employment in Yeovil by confirming a new medium helicopter contract.

PLAID CYMRU

Liz Saville Roberts echoed Ed Davey’s call for a “full investigation into foreign interference in our democracies”; again, she only mentioned Russia.

For context, it may be worth remembering that Reform came a strong second to Plaid Cymru in October’s by-election in Caerphilly; and that Nathan Gill’s criminal offence was committed when he was a UKIP MEP in 2018 (he resigned from UKIP shortly afterwards and joined the Brexit Party in 2019.)

PRIME MINISTER’S REPLIES

Aside from agreeing with his friends’ praises, much of what Sir Keir says is like the “chaff” that military planes blast out to distract enemy missiles. For example his reply to Luke Akehurst’s question on financial support for families in Durham turned into what Nigel Farage may have said as a schoolchild.

Perhaps his most interesting statement was the response to Mark Pritchard’s query on defence:

“It is the first duty of the Prime Minister to keep this country safe; that duty is paramount and above all else, and I take it extremely seriously and treat it as my No. 1 priority. We review our security and defence arrangements all the time, and we are, particularly, a leading member of NATO, which is the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen.”

Some might say that our involvement with NATO and EU military allies has become potentially counterproductive. There may also be other ways in which Sir Keir is failing to maintain the integrity and security of the nation.

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THE BUDGET

The Chancellor’s Budget is just as woeful as had been feared and again represents a redistribution of wealth from the productive to the unproductive. The BBC gives details of changes but there are many other sources of analysis and lament.

Some commentators see it as a collection of sops to Labour backbenchers to shore up their political support for Starmer and herself.

It is unfortunate for Mrs Reeves that having condemned the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) for their accidental (?) leak she should now be embarrassed by the OBR’s revelation that the new “black hole” the extra taxes were supposedly to fill does not exist. She now denies that she misled the public.

Her embarrassment was even more acute during Kemi Badenoch’s excoriating response to the Budget speech. Her facial expression began to wilt under the onslaught. It is worth watching in full.

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/watch-kemi-badenochs-full-response-to-the-chancellors-speech/jpkl4hf

Still, what use are words? During PMQs watch also Starmer’s blank, merciless face traversing left and right in the Chamber as the Opposition protests; it declares “We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.”

The words “chaos” and “chaotic” were used seven times in PMQs and a further seven in the resolutions after the Chancellor’s Budget speech - right every time, whether describing Labour now or the Tories before them. Nevertheless, it seems we have no choice but to endure the chaos.