Thread by @LittleGravitas

.@CommonsSpeaker

@BorisJohnson repeated the lie in #PMQs that, if we had remained in EMA, "we would have been unable to deliver the vaccine rollout at all".

The UK was in transition period when the vaccine rollout started. EU rules applied.

You did not intervene.

Why not?

@CommonsSpeaker @BorisJohnson If, Mr Speaker, you cannot intervene to insist that the PM corrects the grossest of lies, then what is your rôle?

What are you for?

How far does parliamentary democracy have to slide into the dung heap before you find your courage, and act?

@CommonsSpeaker @BorisJohnson Channel 4 Fact Check points out that "Brexit did not speed up UK vaccine authorisation".

bit.ly/3doRF5B

So, are you going to bring Johnson back to correct the record? When?

.@Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner

@CommonsSpeaker @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner If, Mr Speaker, you need evidence to justify hauling Johnson back into the Chamber to correct his lie over EMA today, it's here, from Full Fact:

bit.ly/3y4UmRJ

@CommonsSpeaker @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner Apparently now, Mr Speaker, we are in a place where @Ianblackford_MP is chastised for mentioning a matter of record - that Johnson was sacked twice for lying - and yet Johnson himself gets away with all manner of lies without any form of intervention from you.

Why?

@CommonsSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner .@CommonsSpeaker @LindsayHoyle_MP

You now have a clear choice.

It faced your predecessor, and he faced up to it.

It is even more urgent for you.

Are you going to continue to FOLD before repressive executive power?

Or are you going to STAND UP to it, whatever the cost?

@CommonsSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner @LindsayHoyle_MP Suggestion.

Get your clerks to talk to the @commonslibrary about fact checks of mis-statements and lies offered by Johnson and his crew.

Have them print it out for you. Have the evidence at hand.

And when one arises - call it out.

It's not hard, is it?

But are you up to it?

@CommonsSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner @LindsayHoyle_MP @commonslibrary .@CommonsSpeaker

Last night's WaughZone has a bit about you trying to check @Ianblackford_MP from telling the truth on Tuesday. ⇣

It's beginning to look like mis-statements are not challenged in the Chamber, but some statements of truth are quite likely to be.

@CommonsSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner @LindsayHoyle_MP @commonslibrary In fact, @CommonsSpeaker, was your statement to @Ianblackford_MP that “as we know, hon. Members would never lie” itself a mis-statement of the actualité?

Because they clearly do, if they're a Tory minister.

And @BorisJohnson clearly does.

@CommonsSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @Ianblackford_MP @CarolineLucas @AngelaRayner @LindsayHoyle_MP @commonslibrary @BorisJohnson .@CommonsSpeaker

@BorisJohnson told another lie, too, at #PMQs, as demonstrated by Best for Britain ⇣.

You didn't challenge him on this either.

I think you need the help of your clerks and of the @commonslibrary to identify these errors.

And challenge them.