How do you tell that Johnson is lying? Look to see if his lips are moving...
Boris Johnson has a long and dishonourable history of lying: he has been sacked for it at least twice. But I won’t delve into all that again because I want to concentrate on his most recent example of terminological inexactitude: in short, his lying.The three Scottish judges, in their recent unanimous judgement, clearly found that he had lied in claiming that his reason for proroguing parliament was to set out a new legislative programme for his government (a government, by the way, of none of the talents, including, as it does, people like Dominic Raab and Priti Patel). And now he’s doubled down on that by saying today it is “absolutely not true” that he misled the Queen over his reasons for suspending parliament and, crucially, that the high court in London had taken an opposing view. This is simply not true: the court in fact took no view on that at all, but merely argued that whatever, it was a matter for politics and not the law.It’s awful that we have to put up with someone as dishonest as Johnson, and it reflects deep shame on us as a country that he is our prime minister: he’s reduced us to a laughing stock - just read the European, American and Canadian press.
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