Post-truth society

[matty_f]

I dug up this thread, as i think it’s got worse over the last few months, with numerous claims by politicians in particular going unchecked by journalists - even things like the Dominic Cummings lockdown rule breaking, basically it went away because the prime minister started repeating that people weren’t bothered about it.

We’ve seen the government openly lie about testing figures, deaths, actions they’ve taken and decisions that were made etc.

[Keith_M]

Somebody in an earlier post mentioned Boris' claim that there would be 'no border checks in the Irish Sea'.

Guess what, Boris lied


Maybe we could now have a regular vote for 'whopper of the week'.

[lapsedhibee]

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I dug up this thread, as i think it’s got worse over the last few months, with numerous claims by politicians in particular going unchecked by journalists - even things like the Dominic Cummings lockdown rule breaking, basically it went away because the prime minister started repeating that people weren’t bothered about it.

We’ve seen the government openly lie about testing figures, deaths, actions they’ve taken and decisions that were made etc.

I'll only be surprised now if they contradict themselves within a single sentence.

So
"We started lockdown on 23rd March."
"We started lockdown on 16th March."
- expected, normal.

But
"We started lockdown on 23rd March and on 16th March."
- contender for whopper of the week