“The freedoms, and checks and balances, enshrined in British democracy as in other mature western political systems have been hard-won over generations. Today’s crop of politicians have a duty to safeguard them, and pass them on intact to the next.”
This GE “a dismal campaign notable for its use of casual falsehoods and fakery, and its further coarsening of political debate”.
I don’t know about you but, for me, the last 4 years have been an assault on my belief in decency and good sense, and not just in politicians.
I don’t know about you but, for me, the last 4 years have been an assault on my belief in decency and good sense, and not just in politicians.
I have seen MPs I have always thought of as decent try and hide the deceits of their own party leaders.
I doubt they hold them in higher regard that do I
Then that spectacle of the focus group in Birmingham yesterday. Knowing Johnson lies. Knowing he is untrustworthy.
I doubt they hold them in higher regard that do I
Then that spectacle of the focus group in Birmingham yesterday. Knowing Johnson lies. Knowing he is untrustworthy.
But laughing, almost fondly and saying they will vote for him.
I feel scorn for them.
For it is people who cast their vote so carelessly that rewards lies in politics and harm us all
Gross irresponsibility
Also a particular sort of thoughtless cruelty to one’s fellow citizens
I feel scorn for them.
For it is people who cast their vote so carelessly that rewards lies in politics and harm us all
Gross irresponsibility
Also a particular sort of thoughtless cruelty to one’s fellow citizens
Lies about “getting Brexit done” utterly careless about the factual realities.
Ridiculous claims that sufficient money can be raised to fund huge public sector spends by raising corporation tax and income tax on those earning over £80k pa
Fake FactCheckers. Fake footage. Fake
Ridiculous claims that sufficient money can be raised to fund huge public sector spends by raising corporation tax and income tax on those earning over £80k pa
Fake FactCheckers. Fake footage. Fake
The @BBCNews shamefully allowing a lying PM to choose his own soft interviewer that then idlers an unseemly squabble of broken sentences of a bully talking over every effort to hold him to account.
À Debates commission needed
Electoral and media regulation fit for purpose
À Debates commission needed
Electoral and media regulation fit for purpose
I admit, I now look at places displaying poster supporting my Cheltenham Conservative MP, Alex Chalk, and think. “I’ll remember that you were responsible for this mess we are in”.
I don’t see why they should be allowed to escape the responsibility for their voting consequences
I don’t see why they should be allowed to escape the responsibility for their voting consequences
