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How Boris Johnson is gaslighting the UK (and why he’ll win the next election)
If ever you needed irrefutable proof that the current cabinet are a bunch of mendacious cowards it came last week when they all lined up to support Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament. The Guardian published a list of their own quotes, often only weeks earlier, in which they said how it would be unacceptable to do this. Now they are all on the TV supporting it, and I hope dying on the inside as they know history will damn them. Here are just some of the things the current Cabinet said back in June about the idea of proroguing parliament to push through Brexit:
Matt Hancock:
“Proroguing Parliament undermines parliamentary democracy and risks a general election. I rule it out and call on all candidates to do the same.”
Michael Gove:
“It would not be true to the best traditions of British democracy”
Sajid Javid:
“You don’t deliver on democracy by trashing democracy”
The government demonstrated impressive unity and discipline, all peddling the same blatant lie that the prorogation was just to allow them to present an exciting new Queen’s Speech. Nobody believes them: they know it’s not true, we know it’s not true. Yet they stand there and say it, and the media…
