Political lying is dangerous

Politically Enraged

Watching clips from the tory conference has only shored up my fears that political lying is utterly normalised in the UK. The concern that we cannot trust our elected representatives to tell us the truth on issues we care about is utter madness- so why aren't more people up in arms.

In Peter Obornes book about political lying, he attributes its acceleration to Trump and Johnson. But those men take advantage of an inherent flaw in society- that many people are so desperately wedded to right wing ideology, they'd prefer lies about its efficacy over the factual truth of the damage it's done to our nations.

As this acceptance of lies arose amongst the political right, the political left should have demanded honesty- but at every turn we have fallen into the trap of the right, trying to apply a justice system and fairness rules that they operate outside of, whilst holding us to it's harshest outcomes.

The concern of where this leads is multi-faceted and grows ever nearer- so why aren't more people, more people against the tories, up in arms about it. And why is it that our only escape from the conservatives is being swaddled in the cloth of "sensible conservatism" when it's so clear that fealty to that ideology is why we're in such a mess?