Bare Faced Lies
They lie, you know they lie, they know you know - but they just don't care!
Enough is Enough
Interviewers on our TVs, radios and in our papers no longer have the confidence in themselves to challenge Bare Faced Lies.
"The Big Lie" is a standard political manoeuvre documented over 50 years ago - supposedly if a lie is big enough then as a listener, your belief in human nature is so strong that you will find it hard to believe that any one could be so dishonest and treat you with such contempt.
Thus you don't immediately challenge "The Big Lie", you let it go so you can try to make sense of it later. Only at that later time realising that you have been made a fool of.
What seems to have changed now is that politicians have had such confidence in (and success with) "The Big Lie", that they think the same applies to all lies.
They say whatever they want and as long as they keep a straight face and an even tone they believe that they will not be seriously challenged by anyone.
What is shocking, is that they appear to be right! - Time after time they get away with it.
BFL is here to keep a record of the specific lies that they tell, and maybe (just maybe) there will be a day of judgement when the liars will be held to account, they may be made to appologise, made to payback the benefits they received and put right the damage they have done.
the Lisbon Treaty is "fundamentally different" from the failed constitutionDavid Miliband
Remember Shame?
It's that feeling humans get when they know that what they are doing is wrong, but they do it anyway.
To minimise their shame, people often pretend to themselves that what they are doing is 'for the greater good'.
What worries me is that many politicians, particularly those with power, seem to have no shame.
What I mean is that these people knowingly do wrong , but they genuinely don't care that is is wrong.