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We appear to have different perspectives. It has come to the point where big and little lies have passed by the general public. It just feels to me to be useful to be continually aware of them and at some point a little one may be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
A bit like with Boris losing his position, it was the drip drip drip that finally did him in. He did so much wrong that would have caused anyone with an ounce of shame to resign, and it took forever for his party to finally decide it was unacceptable.
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it was the drip drip drip that finally did him in
I'm not sure that's the case, though. The lie that did him in was in relation to serious allegations against Pincher, as I recall, which I would put firmly in the "big lie" category. And of course, it wasn't his own sense of shame in being found out that led him to go, it required a number of senior party members to turn on him.
Ill-informed Cabinet members contradicting each other around exactly what Johnson is doing on holiday doesn't approach that, in my mind.
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Exactly this. I worry the general public have been frog-boiled into accepting post-truth populism. Any rational politician with sensible, actionable ideas just gets lost in the noise or called boring.
On the plus side, he’s completely wrecked the Tory party and they’re kind of tearing themselves apart with culture war bullshit now.
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NickCJ
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I agree in general but what we have seen with this government is that they have minimised the impact of big lies by constantly telling small ones. By focusing on trivia like this, the Press dilutes the impact of the stuff that matters. Particularly here, given that we know that Johnson never focused on the red boxes whether or not he was on holiday.