This is no different to either the Brexit drivel, the absurd election or Corona shenanigans: the bullshit headlines go on the front page and up top on broadcast, and then doubts, objections and finally admissions that it’s all bullshit go on Twitter, for an audience of 10,000. 
Everyone is happy: the government’s idiotic headline gets beamed straight to the public via editors who see a shared interest in boosting the Conservative Party, and the hacks get to tell themselves they’re the good guys because they debunk it to fifty dorks eight hours later.
And then we all stand around asking why the public are furiously angry about made up bullshit again, how the Conservative Party can get away with openly lying and why nobody resigns for corruption. The type of very deep mystery that could be instantly solved by phoning your boss.
If a deep enigma like this could be effortlessly resolved by asking your employer why they do what they do, and nobody is willing to ask that question, then what should we conclude about the level of commitment to resolving it.
The perfect kind of managed democracy, I suppose: one that barely even requires managing, because everyone knows exactly what their role is and sticks to it, and everyone reacts like their arse has been scalded with boiling water if anyone suggests it needs to change.
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