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Feb 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It is my contention that the climate and ecological emergency, all injustice, dictatorial regimes etc, are all facilitated by one singular thing and that is LYING TO THE PUBLIC to seriously mislead them. That the system as it is facilitates this lying by the powerful.
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For clarity, I am saying the system as it is, which was designed by the powerful for their own benefit, has built in mechanisms to protect powerful liars, and to stop anyone properly challenging them. That the media are complicit in this. That is must be changed.
"it" not "is" - typo alert.
The point I'm making, is that we need to be very alert, and intolerant to the lies of the powerful. It's not about moralising. If they are regularly lying to us, it means they are trying to hide their real agenda, otherwise people wouldn't go along with it.

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Feb 2
I'm alarmed at how most people don't understand the danger our democracy is and are focusing on the wrong part of the scandal.

Never before has a British PM being allowed to tell one barefaced lie after another to parliament, and to not be properly challenged about it.
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This is not just another scandal. This is unprecedented in the history of British democracy. Yes, it has been alleged that other British PMs lied or misled parliament. But this is the thing, there has never been clear cut evidence to contradict them.
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Before I go on, I will make it crystal clear why this is so serious and dangerous. If a British PM is allowed to lie time and again to the House, without challenge, there is the very serious danger we could sleep walk into a dictatorship.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Feb 1
This is very important to understand.

It's all very well to have a principle which forbids an MP from accusing another of lying. It is quite another thing to demand an MP say that false statement was inadvertent.
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To insist as happened yesterday, when Sir Lindsay Hoyle insisted that Ian Blackford MP, say Boris Johnson "inadvertently misled the House", was in effect a demand that Ian Blackford lie to the House of Commons and mislead the public who were watching.
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To say that an MP's false statement was "inadvertent" i.e. accidental, is a positive statement of fact. It would be highly misleading if that statement were not true, a knowing lie - if the MP making the original the false statement, was knowingly lying.
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Feb 1
I want to very quickly explain why I was absolutely certain Boris Johnson was going to become very unpopular, very quickly, in about 2-3 years after the December 2019 General Election. I am not psychic.
People with ingrained personality disorders tend to behave in the same way throughout their life. They keep behaving in the same way over and over again, and just can't stop themselves. See this for proof.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Boris Johnson has 2 primary behavioural traits, which made this scandal entirely predictable.

1) He behaves recklessly as if rules don't apply to him, meaning he will get involved in one scandal after another. He ever learns from experience.
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Feb 1
This is my take on why the Metropolitan Police left it so long before suddenly mounting an investigation, just before Sue Gray's report was ready for publications. Up until this point, the police were quite happy to say, let's see Sue Gray's report first.
Then for whatever, reason, the police launched a sudden investigation, just before the publication of Sue Gray's report. As I explained, there was a very simple explanation for this. That a number of Downing St police officers, had been only too willing to speak Sue Gray.
It was widely reported 8 days ago, that Downing Street police were only too willing to speak to Sue Gray, even though they could not be compelled to speak to her. That they'd given Sue Gray damning evidence.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Jan 31
Our system is broken. The Prime Minster is a shameless liar abusing House of Commons rules to tell lie after lie, knowing very well, no MP can point this out, as it is against House rules, to say another member is lying, even when they self-evidently are.
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It is not my opinion that Boris Johnson has seriously misled the House and has made no attempt to correct the clear cut false statements he has made to the House, again and again. What's more this well precedes so called "partygate".
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Our system is broken, because self-evidently if the PM makes extremely false and misleading statements to the House of Commons, and makes not attempt to correct these false statements, nothing can be done.
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Jan 31
Absurdly, the Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, is repeatedly demanding Ian Blackford, leader of the SNP withdraw his comments that Boris Johnson lied and misled the House of Commons, and to replace it with "inadvertently misled the House". Then ejecting him from the House.
This is everything wrong with politics in Britain. Every person, even Johnson, knows darn well that Johnson lied and lied and deliberately misled the House. Yet MPs are forced to say it was inadvertent, which itself is a huge and serious lie.
Therefore not only is the PM allowed to provably lie and lie to the House of Commons, but all MPs are demanded to go along with the lie that Johnson's lies weren't lies at all, but that they were inadvertent mistakes i.e. not lies.
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