As an MP I had no wish to lie to the public . I also saw that those who did lie usually came unstuck. They would begin by a first lie or cover up to avoid unpopularity or bad report around a single mistake of theirs or their government. Critics got to work to attack them, and soon they had to lie about other things. The first lie would be revealed by surrounding truths. They ended up having to create an alternative reality they wished was true. Over time they destroyed their reputation for truthfulness by too many lies. When a government gets a reputation for lies its time is up. It means whatever the government says about the future and how things might get better, the public do not believe them because they are used to them lying.
Lie is a tough word which MPs are not allowed to use about each other in the Commons. It is true there are degrees of lying. When a government is defending a questionable or dangerous policy like keeping the pound up to a specified rate or interest rates down the spokesmen must not say anything that implies they could lose their battle with the markets. The reassurances will turn out to be lies if and when market forces overcome the policy. This is a small category of necessary lies. Today the government must not say anything that could destabilise the bond market more and make it difficult for them to borrow such huge sums.
There are unintentional lies. It is easy in the heat of a live interview to mis quote or mis remember an important fact. The offending MP should make an early correction. There are lies which the author claims is just a difference of opinion. Climate change theory is fact to its advocates and a scam to its critics. The headlines require unpacking to see what is true and what is false beneath the high level claims.
This government does peddle too many untruths, or too many bad policies which subsequently have to be moderated or cancelled. It has misled us over the legal reasons for its wish to undertake a needless surrender of the Chagos islands. It has claimed to have a growth strategy when most of its tax, spend and regulatory changes have been anti growth. It has lied in saying getting closer to the EU will boost our GDP, and arguing that Brexit caused a big fall in output and trade.
The PM’s judgement has often been called into question, and the government has too many times changed its mind or argued a poor or false case. Credibility is crucial to successful government. Anything that smacks of untruthfulness is another hit to the government’s reputation and ability to govern. MPs are dependent on the value of their words. Lying devalues them, and can result in people no longer listening.
February 18, 2026
You say that ‘Climate change theory is fact to its advocates and a scam to its critics’.
I thought you accepted that climate change has taken place but denied it was caused by man.
Reply The article does not set out my view of climate change because it is not about me.
February 18, 2026
The truth is surely that Climate Changes and always has always will, Man made CO2 is one factor (of million) that influence the climate but not a major one. On balance a bit more CO2 and a little warmer is a good thing, the things the Ed Miliband types push EV’s, heat pumps, so called “renewables”, public transport, bikes, walking save no or no significant CO2, the push for net zero cost trillions and does on balance ever before all the damage done by the costs and extra taxes needed to fund this lunacy.
The World has seen ice ages with far higher levels of CO2 than current ones.
February 18, 2026
Sorry I meant “The push for net zero cost £trillions and does on balance net harm – this even before all the vast damage done by the vast cost and extra taxes needed to fund this lunacy.
February 18, 2026
When exactly were those ice ages with ‘far higher levels of CO2 than current ones’?
February 18, 2026
Ordovician- Silurian and the Jurassic-Cretaceous periods when CO2 levels were greater than 4000 ppmv (parts per million by volume) and about 2000 ppmv respectively. Well before the arrival of humans but still relevant. The best coverage I have found is Dr William Happer “Is there a climate crisis the science says no” and many other excellent videos. Even a doubling of CO2 from currently levels is not a problem indeed probably a net good. Adaptation be it to hotter or colder climates makes far more sense and is far cheaper than trying to control the worlds climate by an insane war on C02 the gas of life.
February 18, 2026
Oh that’s not enough for Hefner, he wants date and time 😂🤣
February 18, 2026
Stephen
I believe in Climate Change. It is a provable fact with much evidence to support it. What I do not believe is, that a gas (CO2) which is the fourth most common gas on the planet at 0.04% (look it up) is somehow responsible and, that we must somehow destroy our (UK and Western) economy to save the planet.
Please see my post below about lies.
February 18, 2026
I agree “the climate changes” but is there a climate emergency no and even if there were heat pumps, EV, renewables, cycling in the UK is certainly not going to reverse it or even remotely make any serious difference!
February 18, 2026
Every household next month is getting a new plastic food waste container to help save the planet …thats why my council tax is increasing by 5% …bloody net-zero
February 18, 2026
My views on Climate alarmist is it is a vastly exaggeraged scam.
Peter Oborne’s The Rise of Political Lying (2005), which examines the decline of truth in the Blair/Major eras is quite good as I recall, thought the author does seem to have gone a bit odd recently on other areas.
February 18, 2026
‘The brilliant Colin Brazier returns for our second short film on the cult of Net Zero and how it protects ‘green’ policies from being questioned by stifling debate and cracking down on free speech.’
Short film about ‘truth’ and a must watch from not-a-lot-of-people-know-that website
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/the-cult-a-net-zero-watch-short-film/#comments
All about free speech and todays topic
February 18, 2026
Because it’s in there DNA , well some of them a very few do tell the truth, the rest a larger majority it’s the only way to get elected by being two faced
February 18, 2026
The problem for MP’s is, if they tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth they will get pillared for it. They simply cannot win. So I am happy for them to use ‘other means’ to answer a difficult question or, not answer it at all. Our kind host I feel is most skilled in this, and that is a compliment BTW 🙂
February 18, 2026
I don’t agree.
They are not RESPONSIBLE for the truth being hard, they simply face it and we know it’s true because we know it too.
A leader shows us how to best deal with hard truths.
For example ‘blood, sweat and tears’…. we accepted the fact and decided the price was worth paying.
February 18, 2026
Agree – withholding the truth is treating us like childred ie communist
February 18, 2026
Mick – their first lie, sin, omission of a newly (most) elected MP is their first month expensors claim….everything after that is gravy
February 18, 2026
Why do the government and some MPs lie?
Well most do it in order to get elected and to cover up for their real and often vile motives for (for example) for:-Pushing the net harm unsafe and ineffective Covid lockdowns, pushing the net harm covid vaccines running open borders and vast low skilled immigration, the Chagos lunacy, the reason for cancelling certain local elections and allowing children to vote, Kier’s two tier justice and back door on religion blasphemy law, the claim that growth is their first priority when almost everything they do is anti-growth, the promise of “to the tens of thousands”, the claim that private schools were getting a tax break by not paying VAT when users were paying 10 times over, the promise by Osborne that we would get £1m IHT thresholds, the absurd claim by the vile George Osborne that it was unfair for landlords to be allowed to deduct interest from their income as every other business can, the claim now that they are not releasing data on the vaccine harms to “protect” people (see the excellent Dr Clare Craig), the claim that VAT of school fees and the war on Non Doms will raise net tax, the reasons Lucy Letby got 31 months for a slightly silly tweet, the idea that the tenants rights bill, net zero, the climate change bill and workers rights bill do anything but huge damage to jobs the economy, living standards and our defences, ( allegation left out ed), and Labour pays organisations to trash some Sunday Times Journalists for exposing their financial misdeeds, the vile propaganda used against the obviously unsafe convictions of Lucy Letby, the rigging of NHS waiting lists, the use of NHS advert which are really political pro Labour adverts…
February 18, 2026
LL.
Wow, that is some paragraph. I cannot imagine you drawing a breath and allowing anyone to get a word in edge ways.
John Prescott used to be an expert at doing that during interviews. He probably had a very good awareness of the time available. Appearances often ended with him gulping for air.
February 18, 2026
Did you include a deliberate mistake ( Lucy Letby tweet)?
February 18, 2026
Sorry yes Lucy Connolly’s silly tweet, Lucy Letby’s 15 convictions all clearly unsafe. Takes a very poor justice system to get 15 convictions all wrong then twice (6 appeal court judges) even deny her any appeal.
February 18, 2026
Even tossing a coin would have got circa half of the 15 right, have taken just a minute or two and cost rather less that the £2.85 million that was spent on all these learned lawyers, judges and jury who surely got all 15 wrong. Broader, indirect costs associated with the scandal, including whistleblower failures, are estimated to have exceeded £39 million.
Our envy or the world NHS and the UK judicial systems!
February 18, 2026
LL,
The Netflix documentary on Lucy Letby makes a very good case and the man now championing her cause presents the arguments and questions very effectively.
Private Eye has been reporting on this for ages – but reading it all has less impact.
The Welshman acting as expert for the prosecution did not come across well. Especially when the people who wrote the book he relied on took completely the opposite view to him!
February 18, 2026
One Lucy or another? What’s the point of thinking before writing, eh?
February 18, 2026
Gosh you are a miserable contributor hefner.
Image having you as a teacher.
It was just an error yet you get all sarky and cross.
Relax for goodness sake.
February 18, 2026
So that the interviewer could not easily interrupt Prescott while he was talking complete drivel and not addressing the question asked I assume!
February 18, 2026
Prescott and yourself might have been OK on ‘Just a Minute ‘ with Nickel Arse Parsons ( an Arthur Haynes reference for other oldies).
You would both do well at talking for a minute without hesitation.
Repetition and Deviation might be stumbling blocks though.
February 18, 2026
Politicians lie because they think we the public are too stupid to know. The fact we keep voting for the sane bunch of chancers probably reinforces their belief we are stupid.
Chagos, Net Zero, Local Elections and Growth are 4 areas where this government is blatantly lying to the electorate and their only answer is to double down on the lies.
Starmet keeps saying we voted for change and superficially his manifesto read that way. We didn’t vote for mass destruction of our way of life which appears to be what’s happening.
I really hope when a sensible government is voted in these liars are brought to book and stripped of all their assets for the damage they’ve caused.
February 18, 2026
The internet and mass 24/7 media has changed all that. That little camera on your smartphone ? See something going on and you can be your very own reporter on the spot. Catching images and videos that, in the past, could only be described. And it can be around the world in an instant.
February 18, 2026
And they now also believe that words can manifest the future.
Say what they want and it comes true.
Farage introduced member of the ‘Shadow Cabinet’ yesterday.
Self delusion beyond repair.
February 18, 2026
And if you don’t like the reason for our cancelling the local elections, we have many more …..oh they’re back on, then we’ll let you know our reasoning when we’ve developed it
February 18, 2026
Is there such a thing as an ‘accidental lie’?
Can’t wait to see if a ‘uman rights lawyer will try to evict some proud British citizens from a place that they were illegally removed from 60 odd years ago. Hard to make this story up!
February 18, 2026
Peter. Trump will grant them protection further embarrassing the Marxist dross that wants to give away the islands together with a bursary.
etc Ed
February 18, 2026
According to Mr. Farage at 19.15, the Trump has come good, as you predicted, thank goodness!
Could 2TK look any more rediculous….
February 18, 2026
Yes, well done to Adam Holloway, Misley Mandarin and the other brave Chagossians in the bridgehead. I hope more are on their way to join them.
February 18, 2026
About 120 km between Ile du Coin and Diego Garcia … Just close enough to have Express’s readers to salivate but nothing much otherwise …
February 18, 2026
Well said Donna
February 18, 2026
Well said Donna.
February 18, 2026
IT appears 2TK can’t stop digging…. notice of eviction given to the Chagosians who have returned to their homeland. Is there nobody in No.10 with any common-sense or humanity?
There must be a very strong reason for 2TK to persue this action, what is it?
February 18, 2026
I suspect it’s a case of
“Money makes the world go around
the world go around, the world go around
Money makes the world go around
that clinking, clanking sound.”
Follow the money …..
February 18, 2026
Actually no when you think of it.
Mistakes are not lies.
February 18, 2026
Good morning.
Knowing something is untrue and asking others to believe the falsehood is lying. Believing in something, even if the facts do not support said position is an error and, to continue in that belief when all the facts prove the person(s) wrong is just plain foolish.
There is a difference between those in public office and those of us who are not. Those in public office wield great power and influence and therefore have the potential to cause much damage, both materially and repetitionary. It has also the consequence of causing more harm to more people that say an individual or a group.
To that end, when those in public office are held to a much higher standard than the ordinary person. I mentioned in a post about the Profumo Affair. A post that got deleted. My point was, that John Profumo resigned not because of his relations, but the fact he lied to the HoC about said relations. Trust and respect in the institutions was then lost. It damaged and tainted everybody.
Today we see all too often, “one rule for thee and another for me”. This does not sit well with the electorate who are going through hard times. They do not buy the ‘yarns’ spun and the blame game.
Lies destroy trust. And trust is the single most important commodity on the planet. It cannot be bought, sold, dug out the ground or created from thin air. It is hard earned and, as we have seen, easily lost. We should all do well to remember that.
February 18, 2026
++ A good appraisal. Without trust no one can sleep easily.
A trust easily and deliberately betrayed can rarely be mended.
February 18, 2026
But we have the right to decide that this person has no judgement and therefore should not represent us.
Raynor had no idea she was avoiding tax and also no idea that ignorance of the law is no defence. Let’s accept that.
Should she be in Parliament? – your decision.
February 18, 2026
and you claim people aren’t stupid? Either incredibly stupid or knew full well what she was alleging.
February 18, 2026
Good morning, JR
I see my post has been deleted, or lost in the ether. May I please ask what was in it that deserved such a response ? I ask as I do not wish to fall fowl again.
I it however appears later, then please accept my apologies.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Mark
Reply I have deleted a few of your posts seeking to make generalised allegations about a named person that have no evidence to back them up.
February 18, 2026
MB,
Anything about Israel is a hot topic on here. It may not get published.
February 18, 2026
it is wider than MP’s and the government, eg the MOD AJAX programme has been screwed since Boris was PM. the vehicles it produces hurt our own soldiers. vast sums wasted on state programmes that have been obvious failures for a long time. and no sanctions for the public sector doing this.
February 18, 2026
Depending on how broad your definition of “lying” is, very many people and pretty much anyone involved politics are liars. For the latter it comes with the job.
They set out a manifesto and present it as something they will do when in power. Almost never do they add the proviso “if circumstances allow”. Sometimes they know that it is unlikely they can deliver, but the promise gets made anyway.
Then in the course of the daily media grind, they can’t or won’t reveal many things. This can be for genuine reasons (market sensitivity, national security) but is more often so they can control the “narrative” or protect their interests. Either way, many of us feel that deliberate omissions are a form of lying.
They have to practise the art of deceipt, it is almost built into the parliamentary system. They get one over on their opponents via ambushes. They sell policies to the public by glossing over the downsides.
No offence to you, kind host (I consider you one of the few “honest” ones) but your profession has been one that drives all to bend the truth to some degree. It’s just that some do it much far more than others.
February 18, 2026
I understand Parliamentary language, protocol and all that jazz, perhaps does not allow for someone to say ‘you sir/madam are a liar’
I try to be balanced and look to see if an MP/Minister is being given an unfair media interview which skews their meaning.
I’m also fully aware it isn’t possible for an MP/Minister to always have all the exact facts and figures to hand, and we all at times do not explain our meaning in the best way, even the most articulate.
All that aside, when it is clear someone is being evasive for no good reason, and further down the line we find out our suspicions were right, then I think it right to say ‘you sir/madam are a liar’
I’m focusing on the big issues that really impact our lives, not the small ones.
In particular at present I’m thinking about how X million people were to be denied a vote in upcoming local elections, and for some this would be a repeat denial.
The government says it has backtracked because it sought legal advice (after being threatened with court) which suggested it may be acting illegally in cancelling the elections.
I’m no scholar of political procedure, so perhaps my questions are simple minded, but surely this advice should have been sought prior to the decision. Surely there are legal people on the payroll who would or should have advised that it was not strictly legal, so don’t do it.
Is the whole reasoning given for cancelling the elections a lie, or just accidental oversight, or some such.
At the moment it’s looking like lies and underhand dealings with one set of beneficiaries only, and they are not in their positions to be beneficiaries of thwarting other people’s democratic rights.
February 18, 2026
Politicians lie for the good of the party and their elevation within it. Many times also out of sheer ignorance. The end result, when the lies become so prolific, is that they lose credibility with the electorate. This is the point we have reached with this socialist government. I hope that in the May local elections the electorate will express disdain for their lying and incompetence.
Climate change has become the basis for many lies. The principal property of climate is that it changes and has done since the inception of Earth. A legitimate debate is the degree to which man’s indusrial activity may affect it. The flat earthers maintain the lie wholly, saying the science is fixed. Science is never fixed, it evolves constantly. That a trail of detritous follows man’s activities, causing growing problems to health and well being is largely ignored but for a few beach cleaners.
Politicians are not alone in the lying game. There is growing suspician that much industrial developement, of potential benefit to man and the planet has been stiffled and buried with their murdered creators by vested interests. The proliferation of knowledge and information will ultimately prevail thanks to the likes of Youtube. An open mind and caveat emptor should be the approach.
February 18, 2026
But politicians are alone in having the power to enforce and legislate based on lies, or if you prefer, self-delusion.
Elected politics is not equal to any other ‘job’, it entails much more responsibility.
February 18, 2026
Adam and Eve had everything in the Garden of Eden. Great power, wealth and s-x. So we know these things are NOT inherently evil (and the saintly Jospeh of Egypt was the second most powerful man in the world, then the great s-x and romance and beauty of the Bible’s Song of Songs and the great success of the Bible’s benevolent Cyrus the Great in peace and war) and that the Almighty wants to bless us, our families, our country, culture and civilisation with these according to our calling in life (and we see how our country, thanks to Christianity, in large part, was blessed with a Christian leader like Queen Elizabeth I, with the creation of Oxford and Cambridge, with devout Christian Sir Isaac Newton, with work ethic and guilds and economy, grammar schools, Jane Austen, and so on). But for some reason, mankind ruins it. We want to be more than generously blessed. We want to discard God and be God instead of God. This is part of the great sin of Adam and Eve (the apple is symbolic of this – not literally true). Whenever politicians want to go it alone with God, chaos always ensues. We see this most dramatically with the Nazis and Communists (and socialists) and increasingly with WOKE. And our whole Western culture and civilisation is crumbling because people in general want to go it alone without God (we can’t blame it all on politicians at all nor do they have the silver bullet to solving all our problems).
‘O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy’ – William Blake
February 18, 2026
‘ Whenever politicians want to go it alone with God, chaos always ensues’ – whenever politicians want to go it alone WITHOUT God, chaos always ensues, I meant
February 19, 2026
‘socialists’ – I’m not knocking our parliamentary democracy where Conservative, Lib Dem and Labour can have different views about stuff. But, clearly, borrowing money we can’t afford and then just doling it out like Father Christmas (and then telling children that men who become women are now women is wrong just as paying a hard-working father with a large family, a pittance – as Scrooge would have done before his transformation – is also wrong). My main point isn’t about politics (even the best politicians can only do so much) but about something bigger – that we need to be aware of and focus if we’re to fix our great country.
February 18, 2026
MPs lie because that’s what the people want. Come election time, it’s the sweet lies that gets a politician elected. No one wants the blunt truth.
February 18, 2026
Explain the Brexit vote then. When we were promised all sorts of hell.
February 18, 2026
I didn’t believe the Remain lies (The UK couldn’t survive outside the EU).
I voted to leave, regardless of the Leave lies (Everything would go swimmingly and not be frustrated at every turn by the establishment).
February 18, 2026
But if we had had full blown Brexit the Leavers predictions and promises would have been implemented and born the fruit they promised.
So the Leavers were NOT lying.
February 18, 2026
Well said Lord Redwood. You have made a very clear argument for why the electorate, and the soon to be, get completely disillusioned with politics and the Government in charge at any time. People are not all stupid and can see and judge the falsehoods regularly trotted out.
As you’ve said and written ‘I don’t believe you!’.
February 18, 2026
Few are stupid and the British electorate as a whole are wize.
February 18, 2026
OMG.
February 18, 2026
Agree, todays diary is indeed poigant, and goes to the heart of the divide between politcians & the voters ….manifesto, PMQs, committeess, inquries etc have all become meaningless, as Mickey said ”I don’t believe you”
February 18, 2026
Trotted out more and more regulary by this government one almost every day. Still inflation is up a bit less this as they wreck the economy more and more every day – youth unemployment highest in Europe at 16.1%
February 18, 2026
Do government lies usually result in screeching U-turns …………
February 18, 2026
When they hit the reality wall…. By one means or the other.
February 18, 2026
Part of the problem is that governments attempt to do too much when they are not qualified to defend the policies or outcomes. If ministers don’t understand their own rules, created by them, then they have no business making rules for us.
We shouldn’t accept disinformation or deceit from government but we commonly get nothing else, and they have the nerve to accuse the public of spreading wrong information!
A government that resorts to name calling, as this one does all too often, is as bad as one that lies through their teeth. Name calling is not only immature it shows a weakness of character.
One day in the not too distant future the rules for parliamentarians will be simple, integrity and openness will prevail because the quality of those becoming MPs will have improved significantly. Socialism will have lost it’s appeal although it’s hard to say what philosophy will be dominant.
That’s a prediction, but that won’t happen until the current house of cards has become history.
February 18, 2026
Is it Governments Lie? Surely parliament as the challenger, those empowered and paid to hold the excitative to account also lie by association and become accomplices to the lie, either through ignorance, lack of ability or deliberate act.
The Lies of Government are the lies that bring the ‘whole’ of Parliament into disrepute.
February 18, 2026
Then of course us as the electorate, knowing how prospective MPs lie to get elected perpetuate the pulling down of society by ever allowing those that participated into office.
February 18, 2026
There are politicians who think they are prophets that they can foretell the future like the ones who told us about the sunlit uplands and we don’t want to name names here but we all know who they are and I suppose there is some excuse for these misguided ones but there are also those who knew better but persisted anyway out of ideological reasons who told blatant untruths on the side of a red bus – and we all know who they are as well.
February 18, 2026
So some people can’t see the future and you castigate them, but others can, and you applauded them even though their prophesy was proven incorrect?
Wow. You should be in the EU Commission.
You are almost as confused as the Chief Diplomat!
February 18, 2026
We have all heard the lies for the reasoning of the Chagos deal. That only once after the deal was signed we were shown such premises to be untrue. Parliament still voted it through without challenge or question. But the deal still goes through. As reported in the media those with friends and ex-collogues in high places get to share out £8million in payments from a Foreign Power for demonstrating their hate of Britain and the British people, they also get to ensure the UK taxpayer is charged £3.4bn for their privaledge.
We are being conditioned to accept lies, and we the people have no voice as the long terms in office without seeking approval turn ineptitude and lies into fait accompli. The cost to unravel lies after such an inordinate amount of time becomes “unfundable”.
February 18, 2026
Starmer Threatens Chagos Settlement Party With Imprisonment As British Government Serves ‘Removal Order’
if you breach this Order and return to the Territory you will commit a criminal offence and be liable on conviction for imprisonment for 3 years or a fine of £3000
https://order-order.com/2026/02/18/starmer-threatens-chagos-settlement-party-with-imprisonment-as-british-government-serves-removal-order/
Whose Government is this?
February 18, 2026
As pointed out in the comments on Guido Fawkes :-
Starmer will not punish illegal immigrants to the UK; but immediately punishes Chagossians returning home!
Reply See me on X today @johnredwood
February 18, 2026
I agree with your X comments Lord-J
February 18, 2026
China’s, by the look of it.
February 18, 2026
”conditioned to accept lies” ….stop the boats ! stop the boat gangs !
February 18, 2026
There is probably always a form of words people can use to avoid lying.
It would be better if Parliament allowed MPs to declare when each other is lying instead of pretending it does not exist and exerting a penalty on a member for innocently pointing out the lie of another.
February 18, 2026
Why do the government and some MPs lie? – Because they are corrupt.
February 18, 2026
Even local councillors, when I asked my council for the before and after data of cycle lane usage, they say its not available as its not recorded ….How can they reason the use of public funds, if they don’t measure the outcome ? Thats a form of lie (did banning plastic straws save the planet, did charging for plastic bags save the environment, did banning cig’s reduce lung cancer deaths, did banning speeds to 20mph reduce the number of RTA deaths …..we don’t know as the outcomes aren’t recorded …LIE LIE LIE)
February 18, 2026
They lie because they know they are doing the wrong thing and can’t defend it honestly.
The solution is to elect politicians brave enough to do the right thing, even if it’s hard, because they will be able to explain why and the British electorate is clever and courageous.
February 18, 2026
The last governments since 2000 and most of the MPs continue to lie about the effects of climate change and the costs of net-zero
February 18, 2026
In soooo deep. How can they deny themselves and admit the waste and stupidity?
February 18, 2026
A bit like HS2 …..they have to save face
February 18, 2026
In plain sight, most MPs have lied about honouring the referendum
February 18, 2026
Most know they can’t govern. That is a defect they have to hide by placing the Governing of the U.K. under others.
We need to be ruthless and get capable people who have the ‘bandwidth’ to be honest!
February 18, 2026
We are all being conditioned to lies perpetrated by political agenda’s – from Guido
“The report – authored by energy expert Kathryn Porter – points to the fact that sourcing energy from overseas creates 50% more carbon emissions than if it had been sourced at home according to the Climate Change Committee. It also predicts that the UK will still need around 168 million barrels of oil in 2050 as Britain would still need it for plastics, medicine and fertilisers”
Saving the Planet? Destroying the economy while they are at it. Confirmed by the Climate Change Committee of all people, those that advice Parliament, paid for by the Taxpayer. But the ‘lie’ is allowed by Parliament to continue
February 18, 2026
It continues thoughout the public funded quangos (603 quangos), the met-office, the BBC, the OBR etc etc
February 18, 2026
and the infamous charities commission and international charities …..take take take, only 10% of your donation goes where you’re told it goes …the 90% on administration costs
February 18, 2026
A self inflicted wound has opened on UK government today. The partial hand of british human rights has been waved at half a dozen Chargosians who have returned to their legal homeland.
A half intelligent Westminster response would be to despatch a RFA ship with materials and a company of Royal Engineers to set up a sanitary village for the expanded return of many more Chargosians. Watch this space.
February 18, 2026
As humans we learn to lie at the same time we learn to speak, very early in our development. Of course we are not very good at it at first. It takes a great deal of practice over many years.
I have just finished reading a book by G. Shepard called ‘The Nixon Conspiracy’. In that case the prosecutors and judges lied mainly by omission – rather than by commission. It was so successfully done, and with the media’s connivance, that people still think the late President Nixon was a crook.
February 18, 2026
I think what has changed is that there are now very few consequences for lying in politics. In particular misleading the House is no longer a very serious matter and the Speaker seems disinclined to do anything much about it – in the past it would have been a resigning matter in some cases. Also, being a lawyer, Starmer probably sees his frequent untruths as simply part of his job – in the past he’d happily stand up and argue strongly someone’s guilty one day and just as strongly that they are innocent the next day depending on who’s paying him – this must engender a very flexible and subjective idea of telling the truth. One area that I think it would be useful to legislate on is the publishing of flat-out lies in election manifestos – there should be some recourse if manifesto promised are broken.
February 18, 2026
”there should be some recourse if manifesto promised are broken”
They should be forced to return the people their vote in a gerenal election
February 18, 2026
Lying becomes a nasty and dangerous habit that is difficult to change. Far too many MPs and political parties do it, then wonder why the electorate is disgusted with them. Far too many MPs seem to lack the ability to think for themselves, to study and research issues, and just repeat the party line, right or wrong.
Critical thinking is a skill that all MPs should have, as they have to sort the truth from a massive amount of information which is constantly aimed at them. I have no doubt it is tough to be a truthful MP, but liars are always caught out, eventually. Starmer is the current classic example. Who now believes a word he says?
February 18, 2026
One lie gives birth to the next as JR points out.
They end up in a place they would never have agreed to in the first place.
February 18, 2026
My opinion; Reform’s Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick made pronouncements to-day which will ensure that the ‘Reform Party’ will not gain power. He has carried his failed thinking from his Tory days into Reform, thus stopping its growth. Next as a staunch remainer we will hear that Reform want to join the EU. So we now have two failed Consocialist groups with dead defunct policies splitting the vote, forcing Labour on the Country once more.
Yes MPs lie, they should learn the lesson, saying nothing has more credibility than ‘mealy’ look at me words.
Ego keeps getting in the way. MPs fail to listen, or at least listen to anyone but themselves
February 18, 2026
My opinion:
1. He is NOT the Shadow Chancellor.
2. He was visibly shaking.
3. He has changed nothing.
They are cooked. I’m sorry Suella was suckered mainly by her Reform member husband, he has destroyed her.
They have lost 3% already for people who don’t watch these things.
February 19, 2026
You must lie awake at night fretting about Reform. How about turning the bile on this Government instead?
February 18, 2026
Churchill was right: there are lies, damn lies and statistics. Anything that denies the truth is a lie, and deliberate or manipulative denial (sophistry) is damnable: ‘For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.’ (Revelation 22:15-16).
February 18, 2026
Another big lie is the role, and growing role, of religion in our politics and community ….the lie of silence, the woke lie of omission, the lie that it may offend, the lie that has to be brushed under the carpet
February 18, 2026
In the Telegraph today 2TK says it wasn’t ‘he’ that cancelled elections, it was the local councillors. Stretching things a bit, who sowed the seed? Who gave permission? What part then becomes a lie
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/18/starmer-blames-councils-for-scrapping-elections/
Election predictions in those once cancelled elections areas, polling suggests Reform wins hands down. However the projected outcome is completely different, Labour either keeps its seat or the council become NOC. The Liberal Democrats that have steered clear of saying anything keep their status quo and loose nothing. Reform as it mutates to be the problem child ConSocialist that they so despise, that they forgot to steer clear of, became infested with the snakes in the grass and are loosing the title of not being the ‘others’ the have joined the others
February 18, 2026
Also in the Telegraph – Lord Toby Young picks on the lies being told
‘Starmer has exposed the lie at the heart of the Online Safety Act’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/18/government-sinister-orwellian-surveillance-powers/
“The Government unveiled some other Orwellian measures, but rather than bring them in as revisions to the schools Bill, it will put through amendments that will enable it to make further changes to Britain’s censorship regime via secondary legislation, i.e., it will grant itself sweeping Henry VIII powers.”
“It’s worth bearing in mind that secondary legislation cannot be amended and allows little time for debate.”
This how a devious undemocratic legal mind ensures he wins, he bypasses democracy and its safe guards
February 18, 2026
He knows nothing. Nothing contentious ever comes over his desk. It’s everyone else’s fault –
I’m getting sick and tired of this personality type.
February 18, 2026
Royal Navy to the rescue.5 Chagossians and a former Conservative MP land on an Ile du Coin.
In two shakes of a lamb’s tail an RN patrol boat arrives to inform them that if you don’t returrn
to whence you came you face a fine of £3000 each or 3yrs imprisonment or both
It gladdens my heart that this government is on the ball when danger threatens thousands of miles away
but meanwhile hundreds arrive by inflatable vessels,on our southern beaches,every week but no sign of
a patrol boat let alone the issuance of go back or face severe penalties.
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February 18, 2026
Labour used to represent the working class but they say one thing and do another, against the interests of working folk. When New Labour arrived the spin doctors automated the messaging and the illusion that “Fings would only get better” sound bytes and daily plugging this perception of hope by BBC etc reinforced it.
Only when financial crisis hit back did common sense prevail temporarily sadly as folk today have short memories.
However this merry go round illusion plays again but “We don’t believe you” has been steamrolled by bigger porkies until another out of the blue event occurs like Epstein – torpedo / bazooka! Ouch!
February 18, 2026
In Canon Law the Catholic Church Bishops and Cardinals allow for the telling of lies under the pseudonymn of ‘Mental Reservation’ it means that in some circumstances you can lie by not admitting to the truth or otherwise by not correcting an untruth – Bishops and Politicians are much the same in this regard
February 18, 2026
I’m pro religion …..but like the USA, it should be kept out of politics, no support, no funding, no tax advantage, no subsidy, no privilege & no lobbying …..if people want religion in their life, thats ok with me
February 18, 2026
Government and some MPs lie in order to achieve their eventual aims. We should never forget that many believe that the ends always justifies the means and the bigger the lie, and the more often it is told, the more likely it is to be believed. This is certainly the case for CAGW and its “solution”, Net Zero. In the 368 page “Net Zero Strategy – Build Back Greener” published in October 2021 is written on P19 that we will have electricity available “at the flick of a switch from abundant, cheap British renewables….” As electricity prices continue to rise and we have warnings of grid failure NESO (National Energy System Operator) write in their “Clean Power 2030” report (Annex 1): “Consumer engagement is a vital part of efficient and low-cost use of clean power and, in the first instance, regular demand side flexibility responsive to ToUTs (Time of Use Tariffs) would typically be used to reduce peak demand.” So the eventual plan is for expensive, chaotically intermittent electricity (don’t be fooled, renewables are more expensive than gas) where instead of supply matching demand, demand is made to match supply through rising prices to curb use and finally through rolling blackouts, with the eventual aim of impoverishment, de-industrialisation and national insecurity.
February 18, 2026
Funniest thing, lying to yourself.
So the woke decided that they did not know the difference between men and women.
Elon Musk reveals that therefore Twitter was putting tampons in men’s bathrooms:
“Every week, they would put a fresh box of tampons in an empty building. For years, this happened… It must have been very confusing to the people that were being asked to do this.”
🤣😂
She. The cleaner is brighter than the CEO…
February 18, 2026
I am liking what Mr Trump has been saying today. I am also liking what the Japanese government and ambassador has been saying.
February 19, 2026
From the Telegraph, “…last week, Angela Rayner talked tough on the problems facing business. “I talked about the challenges – it’s not even the double whammy, it’s not even the triple whammy. It’s business rates, the challenges on VAT, yes, the minimum wage and living wage going up, the cost of energy,” she said. “We’ve got to start looking at the intersectionality of all these challenges and start relieving them.””
Is she lying to the electorate, saying these are her concerns?