Imposing ideology on others is just wrong
JOHN Hodgkins (Letters, July 22), says that I answered my
own question of there being an acceptable lie on his behalf.
The reason I did that was because Mr Hodgkins had at that point not condemned the lies that I pointed out and in my eyes to not condemn is to condone.
I am pleased to know that Mr Hodgkins thinks that all political lying is deplorable and of course the lie on the side of the bus, plus the lie about no border in the Irish Sea and that Brexit is done are all political lies. It may not have been a lie to quote the gross figure on the side of a bus rather than the nett but it was deliberately misleading and tantamount to telling a lie in my opinion We will never know how many people might have voted differently if these lies hadn’t been told, especially the one about there being no border in the Irish Sea.
As I pointed out in my last letter if everything is taking into consideration our country and most of its people could be worse off financially.
Mr Hodgkins says that in his book the most deplorable lies are those committed by politicians who adopt insincere policy positions in order to gain personal advancement, I agree with that but I also deplore equally those who lie to impose their ideological views on others, which is what the leading Brexiters did under the guise of taking back Parliamentary sovereignty when in fact they were trying to give control to Government and bypass Parliament.
They are at it again as the redoubtable activist Gina Miller has pointed out in a national newspaper, The Guardian, the Government through the Northern Ireland Brexit Bill are sneaking in clauses that will in-fact give more direct power to ministers and bypass Parliament. The article gives a lot more detail than I can give here.
So much for Parliamentary sovereignty.
I wasn’t aware that I was debating the merits or otherwise of Keir Starmer by the way, I thought we were debating the Brexit lies.
AW, Gosforth