David Cameron has reduced Prime Minister's Questions to an absolute farce by refusing to answer questions at all or, when cornered, resorting to outright lies. Prime Minister's have been accused of lying before but not one has ever come to rely on it completely. Yesterday he told three outright lies in 30 minutes and must have known that's what he was doing. Lie number one was that there are more people in work now than when he seized power. In fact he knows that employment has fallen by 26,000. Lie number two was to deny that welfare reforms would reduce the money given to disabled children. It has been reduced from £53.84 to £26.75 per week as Cameron must know. While defending the NHS reforms he quoted Dr.Greg Connor who, he assured the House, was chairman of the Doncaster commissioning group and suggested that he actually lived in Ed Milliband's constituency. In fact Dr.Conner is no longer the chairman of the commissioning group and has never lived in Doncaster. Of course David Cameron is a proven serial liar as even a cursory glance at his pre-election promises will amply demonstrate. Remember "there will be no top-down reform of the NHS?" Or his pledge not to increase VAT, now raised from 17.5% to 20%? A more recent whopper was to claim that there were 25,000 policemen in back office roles who could be redeployed onto the streets. The truth was that there just 7,927 officers in such roles. So, you might say, politician's lie. All too often they do, but to lie during PMQ's is to hold both Parliament and the people in contempt and is actually an offence under the Ministerial Code. Nor are his lies a matter of spin in order to defend himself against hostile questioning. They are direct and outright lies designed to mislead both the House and the people of Britain. In his own parlance this man is a cad and a bounder, not quite the full ticket, a serial liar who has no place in British politics and no right to be Prime Minister.
No comments:
Post a Comment