Boris Johnson: Fact-checking three years of the outgoing prime minister's claims and scandals

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The joke “How can you tell when a Politician is Lying, when their lips move” was written long before Boris’s tenure. Lying is not the issue here.

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Hi

A bit premature for all this fact checking.

We will have to wait to see if he goes and under what circumstances.

There are some very important public inquiries due, Covid for one, and we do not know what deals he has done.

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  1. When he claimed money probing child abuse was ‘spaffed up a wall’
    In March 2019, Boris Johnson said police spending on child sexual abuse investigations was “spaffed up a wall”.

He said: "Keeping numbers high on the streets is certainly important. But it depends where you spend the money and where you deploy the officers.

"And one comment I would make is I think an awful lot of money and an awful lot of police time now goes into these historic offences and all this malarkey.

“You know, £60 million I saw was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic child abuse.”

The NSPCC said the former Foreign Secretary’s language was “crass.”

:roll_eyes:

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I dislike this notion as it seems to normalise very poor behaviour - as in its ok that the PM lied because they all lie. And therefore we should simply accept it. Does that not seem a dismal way of thinking and a way of simply letting liars off the hook? So lets not accept lies.
Having said that, in sense you are right. The real issue with the PM is not the lying. The issue the atrocious lack of judgement in the lying: we had no parties, err ok the parties stuck by the rules, ah but I did not attend the parties, etc. etc. The lies were bad, but the incompetent judgement on his excuses said a lot more about the abilities of the man.

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WHAT WAS CLAIMED

“Keir Starmer voted 48 times to overturn the will of the British people and take us back into the European Union.”

OUR VERDICT

This isn’t correct. The figure appears to be based on how Mr Starmer voted in 48 votes related to Brexit. But some of these votes were not about whether Britain should be part of the EU, and all but three took place before Britain left the EU. Mr Starmer has often opposed the Government in Brexit votes, but has also voted a number of times in support of Brexit.

BJ’s perpetual lies have got him into trouble so many times that “Mendacious” should be one of his middle names 
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It all sounds pretty awful. PMS perhaps?