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Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 Profile picture
@RussellEngland
Feb 20, 2023 • 34 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
Stephen Flynn : "Johnson is a liar"

Laura Kuenssberg : "That’s quite a charge"

Question of the day, is Johnson a pathological liar?

#JohnsonTheLiar
If you are unsure, here's some clues

"Johnson is the most accomplished liar in public life" - Rory Stewart

Some more clues

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@queenchristina_ "Johnson is a pathological liar"

@queenchristina_ Some more clues

Johnson told Ian Paisley - before the election - he was going to tear up the protocol

Some more clues

as Mayor of London

2010 - "I'm not cutting fire services"

2013 - Johnson cuts fire services

A London assembly member called him a liar after he promised he wouldn't

Johnson responded with "Oh get stuffed!"

"We had these problems before, John Major brought out the Nolan principles, in those days people would have resigned" - @adilray

Bercow - "The difference is... Johnson is an habitual liar"

Some more clues

Dawn Butler listed Johnson's lies in the House of Commons

She was told to leave, not because she told the truth, but because she called Johnson a liar...

cc @DawnButlerBrent

Some more clues

Johnson January 2020- "There is no threat to the Erasmus scheme"

December 2020 - Erasmus scrapped

cc @DougChapmanSNP

Some more clues

"Boris Johnson is a serial liar" - Ian Blackford

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Johnson started his Big Red Bus tour in Truro, Cornwall

He said why send money to the EU when we can give it to Cornwall

They had £100m a year in funding in the EU

Johnson gave them £1m after Brexit

cc @WCountryVoices

westcountryvoices.co.uk/weve-all-been-…
Some more clues

"Eight false claims made in Boris Johnson’s Conservative party conference speech"

Afzal Khan expressed his grief after he lost his mom to covid

He asked when Johnson was going to apologise for continuing to lie about his parties

Hoyle chided him for calling Johnson a liar

Some more clues

"Johnson is an unrepentant and inveterate liar"

Sylvie Bermann - Former French Ambassador to the UK

Some more clues

There's even a book

"The Little Black Book of Lying Boris Johnson"

by @kyletaylor

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Omar Salem : "The NHS has been destroyed... and now you come here for a press opportunity"

Johnson : "There are no press here"

Omar Salem : [Points to BBC crew]

cc @OmarSalem

Some more clues

There was a *parliamentary debate* on Johnson's lying

"Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
Volume 712: debated on Thursday 21 April 2022"

"The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a liar"

"We need to stop being surprised and exasperated by Boris Johnson lying again & again and come to terms with how & why we came to have a political system/society that rewards & facilitates such behaviour"

Editor of @BylineTimes

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"It used to be that ministers would resign if they misled Parliament - Boris Johnson is making a career out of it"

Caroline Lucas

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"Johnson is a pathological liar, which is one of the defining characteristics of a psychopath"

From a Professor of Clinical Psychology

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After claiming that the European Super League was brilliant

He then claimed he saw it off - not the football fans...

cc @BestForBritain

@BestForBritain Some more clues

Jacinda Ardern in 2012

Some more clues

"Johnson’s Lies Worked for Years"

Listing some of Johnson's lies over the years

By @sarahlyall for the New York Times

Some more clues

"Boris Johnson is a liar, a charlatan and a narcissist"

The New Statesman not holding back - in 2017

Some more clues

Johnson is a "known liar"

@dorotheabyrne was head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 at the time

She called on broadcasters to challenge Johnson's lies

Some more clues

"Barring a political miracle, Boris Johnson will become Britain's new prime minister - the notorious liar"

"the notorious liar" - "der notorische Lügner"

Der Spiegel not messing around in 2019

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"Johnson lying again"

Annette Dittert - London correspondent for Germany's public broadcaster

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List of Johnson's lies to Parliament

From Peter Oborne

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"Johnson's been sacked twice for lying. It's not libellous or slanderous to call him a liar, because it's a demonstrable fact."

From a former BBC Journalist / Producer

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"The former leader had no regard for truthfulness, and now we see others happy to follow his example, knowing the system rarely holds them to account"

@pollytoynbee for the Guardian yesterday

Some more clues

Johnson presented a kipper as an example of EU regulations

The kipper was from the Isle of Man

The Isle of Man is not in the EU, nor the UK

The EU later debunked the lie

The frozen bag thing was a UK regulation

#JohnsonTheLiar

Some more clues

Johnson said he was only a "handful" of points behind Labour when he stepped down

A YouGov poll on 7 July had Tories at 29 points and Labour at 40 points

Johnson finally quit on 6 Sep, Tories were 28 points, Labour were 43 points



YouGov poll on 6-7 July 2022 - Bar chart showing con 29, lab 40, lib dem 15, snp 5, plaid 1, reform 3, green 6, 2 other
YouGove poll on 31 Aug-1 September - Bar chart showing Con 28, Lab 43, Lib Dem 11, SNP 5, Plaid 1, Reform 3, Green 6, Other 2
Some more clues

"What do we do, when a known liar becomes Prime Minister"

Worth a watch

@dorotheabyrne, former head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, called on broadcasters to challenge Johnson's lies and call out politicians who lie

From 2019

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Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 Profile picture
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@JohnJCrace "No journalists were allowed to ask questions"

Sunak meets Elon Musk

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Feb 26
@ShehabKhan Some more for you

Sunak's response to Zarah Sultana in House of Commons in January

Associating her with Hamas

@ShehabKhan Jenrick in the House of Commons

"We have allowed our streets to be dominated by Islamist extremists - now we're allowing Islamist extremists to intimidate British members of Parliament"

and Penny Mordaunt's response

@ShehabKhan The Tories were founder members of the European Conservatives and Reformists caucus

Which includes Islamophobic and anti-Semitic parties

The Tories sacked 2 Tory MEP's for not supporting Orban

From @georgeeaton for @NewStatesman

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Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 Profile picture
Dec 5, 2023
@doctor_oxford @BorisJohnson I'm not a psychologist but its pretty obvious that Johnson is a pathological liar

Here's a thread of his lies

1/x
@doctor_oxford @BorisJohnson Some say "pathological liar" isn't the correct term

But pathological lying is a trait of a psychopath according to Hare's Psychopathy Checklist

2/x
@doctor_oxford @BorisJohnson There's also that "smirk"

Otherwise known as "Dupers Delight" or "Duping Delight" - a classic tell tale of a psychopath, they are either lying or about to lie

Defined by Dr Paul Ekman, one of the worlds leading authorities on micro expressions

3/x
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Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 Profile picture
Nov 24, 2023
Sounds familiar

"Severely mentally and physically disabled people, as well as those perceived to have disabilities, were targeted because of Nazi beliefs that disabled people were a burden both to society and to the state"

- @HMD_UK

#BBCQT

1/3
hmd.org.uk/learn-about-th…
"This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60.000 Reichsmarks to the National Community. Comrade, that is your money too."

Nazi propaganda poster from 1938

#BBCQT

2/3
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unwo…
Image
"How much does caring for hereditary illnesses cost?

This is actually from a Nazi school text book in 1941

#BBCQT

3/3

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Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 Profile picture
Jun 11, 2023
@RidgeOnSunday @SophyRidgeSky @grantshapps Grant Shapps June 2023 - "I actually voted for Brexit as it happens"`

Grant Shapps May 2023 - "I was never a Brexiter, Brexit was never my ideology"

Would the real @grantshapps please stand up

@RidgeOnSunday @SophyRidgeSky @grantshapps Grant Shapps June 2023

"I actually voted for Brexit as it happens"

@RidgeOnSunday @SophyRidgeSky @grantshapps Grant Shapps December 2016

"I was a Remainer but now I’m backing Brexit all the way, as hard as you like"

brexitcentral.com/grant-shapps-m…
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Russell England 😷💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿 Profile picture
Jun 11, 2023
Inbound tourism from the EU is already down because of a passport requirements

What shall we do to resolve this?

"MAKE THEM PAY!!!"

#BrexitReality
I've travelled quite a bit, and paying fees to enter a country hasn't put me off because I've wanted to go there. But its usually a one off, and far away.

Charging our neighbours, when we are already losing tourists because of Brexit, is nuts. It will reduce tourism from the EU.
And for the "THEY'VE ALWAYS NEEDED A PASSPORT!" crowd

Pre-Brexit, EU/EEA citizens could use a National ID to visit the UK

Post-Brexit, EU/EEA citizens now need a passport

The British have always needed a passport because we don't have a National ID

web.archive.org/web/2019090706…
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