Politicians have always lied – it’s the quality that’s declined
Extracts of an article in the Telegraph. Absolutely brilliant article! Because it is behind a paywall, I am copy-pasting a small number of paragraphs.David Dimbleby: ‘Politicians have always lied – it’s the quality that’s declined’The 85-year-old presenter on royal spin doctors, election-night blunders and the reason we have so few good MPs"....And then there is the calibre of today’s politicians. “For all sorts of reasons there has been a gradual decline in the quality of senior politicians. The upsets of the last five years – the effect of Covid, the 2008 crash, Liz Truss, the Tory party choosing its leaders with 85,000 members deciding who will be Prime Minister – they all have created a world where a lot of people just won’t touch politics, won’t go near it.” Do politicians today lie more than they did at earlier stages in his career? “No. I think they have always lied – though they do get more honest and let their guard down after 10pm on election night when the ballots have been cast and they can call a result a car crash. The word lie is rather too serious a word to use. They try to get you to see the world their way and for that they distort the truth.”Is that what Boris Johnson was doing? “Oh, he is completely separate. He is sui generis. We can’t do Boris. It was a nadir, all of that stuff.”.....https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/29/david-dimbleby-interview-bbc-question-time-general-election/
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