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"One last heave – in all senses of the word – for Boris Johnson, Britain’s
worst ex, who tomorrow flops himself out in front of the privileges committee
and asks it to consider an auto-satirical question: did the foremost British
liar of the age tell a lie? If you want a sense of our self-respect as a
nation, an entire parliamentary investigation has spent 10 months gathering
evidence on that question, while £220,000 and rising has been spent by the
taxpayer on Johnson’s legal defence. It is, let’s face it, a long way to go to
reach the conclusion, “Lol of course he told a lie – it’s BORIS
JOHNSON?!?!?!?!?”
Strip away the incidental details of this latest adventure in a career of
turbo-fibbing and you are faced with a reality as old as bullshit itself.
Johnson, who last told the truth during the Reagan administration – and then
only accidentally – has somehow got the government to fund state-of-the-art
lawyers to prove he wasn’t aware of parties happening in his own house,
attended by his own self, against his own rules, and in at least one case
against his own laws, having gone on telly every single night to tell people
that compliance to the letter of said rules and laws was a matter of life and
death. Please bear this in mind if you tune in to his appearance tomorrow
afternoon, along with the question: does our country have a path to dignity?
Because this ain’t it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
