Thread by @skullsnsheets

I’d like to point out how the tactics that are currently employed by Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are those used by narcissistic abusers and how they are used to coercively control the public into believing them - a thread
#cummgate #cumgate #DominicCummngs #BorisLies

gaslighting: This is when someone repeatedly replaces facts with falsehoods. They will repeat their story until you are convinced. They will recruit others to do this to ensure the message they have fed you is the same. These are sock puppets or flying monkeys.

Projection: They can’t accept their mistakes and so it must be someone else’s - look at the way the media is being blamed as well as the ambiguous guidance.

Word Salad: having long pointless conversations to try and disorientate your thinking and again to convince you or wear you down to the extent that you question your facts.

These tactics are used to gain power. This is what many men and women experience in domestically violent relationships daily. It’s abhorrent and inexcusable. Any yet we see this in the @Conservatives government. @womensaid