Ever notice how politicians talk with straight-faced sincerity about how they want to “bring trust back into politics” and then go and do the opposite. As much as our representatives regularly lament that we punters regard probity in politics as being as commonplace as unicorn shit, it is not as though they set a encouraging example themselves.
In the past few days we’ve seen Plaid MPs accuse a tory minister over fibbing over funding cuts for S4C; Welsh Conservatives have denied claims of a stitch-up for a regional list candidate; Labour’s Huw Lewis says Lib Dems have misrepresented child poverty levels in Wales; Kirsty Williams fingers health minister Edwina Hart for misleading the Assembly on a health spending report and Nick Clegg is charged by everyone with lying because he moved his lips.
It’s a standard political ploy when the message fails to get through – or when there isn’t one and the only aim is to promote your own impeccable qualities by portraying your opponent(s) as stupid/corrupt/forgetful/all of the foregoing.
Then again, as Disraeli more or less said, “Something unpleasant is coming when politicians are anxious to tell the truth”.
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Say what you like, Carwyn looked a right dipstick when Smirky Williams produced the report - sorry "numerous inputs and analysis". Good viewing even if it's bad politics.
He also said "A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy which seduces to power only those partners who have smelly pants."
Edwina Hart as the new Alfred Dreyfus? A sense of perspective may be required. A long sulk after a failed leadership hardly compares to Devil's Island!
Well on this side of the pond there's a common saying "How can you tell if a politician is lying? when it opens its mouth!"
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