What sort of mental process goes through the brain of a politician who willingly presents them self in front of the television camera to either lie or obfuscate in response to a straight foreword question. For most of us lying, avoiding the truth is difficult,
we show all kinds of discomfort as we lie since we know from childhood that to tell a lie is deceitful, dishonest, underhand, scheming, conniving, none of which we would like to be known for and yet the politician not only relishes the tag but makes it their
main professional armament.
They sit and tell lies without a twitch and stony faced. When presented with the truth they are quite prepared to keep on telling the lie without any shame, it's as if their job has turned them into something else, less human less courageous, a lesser
person in the chain of humanity and the goals we are all supposed to live by.
The business of politics seems to be the business of persuasion no matter what and I suppose I shouldn't deny them a place alongside the secondhand car sales man or the person selling windows, they are also taught to lie to make the sale but somehow we
expect more from the politician and it's a barefaced secondhand car salesman who would continue to say there was nothing wrong with the car if it belches smoke or sounds like a grinding machine. And yet the politician does that day in and day out he carries
the deceit to new heights, he is unabashed at facts which show his last comment spurious he ploughs on with the line the party is pushing at this moment as if he has received a tablet from god. The face belies little of the torment, since if he or she are
human they must wish at times to throw up their arms and say "yes I am wrong", but when if ever have you heard them say that ?
Is it any wonder the political class are held in such low esteem. Is it any wonder that we despair when we hear them mangling fact which effect us materially, knowing as we do that there is nothing we can do to change this farce which is portrayed on our
screens daily. A farce is meant to be humorous it is couched in such a way that the language and the characters are distorted and we know it is a farce. But the political farce is for serious, its actors take themselves very seriously indeed. They lead a nation
into war, they make decisions which effect us all. They are given the pomp and circumstance, not to mention the pensions, that ordinary people would cry for.
The Prime Minister (the liar in chief) is respected and adorned with high office. They are listened too with anticipation, they know the truth, they have to hand the statistics and the power of the Civil Service at their disposal to route out the truth,
but what do they do, they stand at the dispatch box and lie and then their acolytes line up to praise them on their perfidy.
What a sorry state we are in as we weasel our way through the important questions about the state of the nation. "Yes we have just increased the budget on secondary care in the health service but after many years of cutting back the budget Minister
but we are woefully short of money to run the service. Yes but I have explained, we have increased spending this year. But Minister that only partially offsets the cuts of the last 5 years. But we have increased it this year". Pause whilst the impasse
filters through to us all, he is not in a position to acknowledge the truth since the truth is a matter for the party and sits elsewhere.
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