My previous blog touched on the use of 'apology' as a defence mechanism of the powerful, when they are caught out and asked to account for harms they have occasioned. Dawn Butler has done nothing to apologise for, when she called out some of Johnson's lies in Parliament, yesterday.
All of us living in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have witnessed Boris Johnson, the English Prime Minister, utter outright lies, time and time again. Johnson's reputation as an issuer of lies dates back to his first days in journalism in the early 1980s.
A journalist, Peter Stefeanovic, crafted a short video, laying out some of Johnson's lies, and providing the evidence that these were, indeed, outright lies, which Johnson uttered in Parliament. Peter made the video to put pressure on UK News Media to write about these lies, not least because those lies have enabled political behaviour that has caused hundreds of thousands of fatalities, millions of cases of chronic disease and immense economic harm by recklessly rejecting elimination strategy back in February 2020, and maintaining that 'epidemiologically stupid' policy ever since.
27 MILLION VIEWS! 27 MILLION!!!
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) July 20, 2021
Working TOGETHER we have sent a powerful message to UK News shows if they won’t hold this Prime Minister to account for his rampant lying in Parliament we will do it ourselves!
How long can you ignore it now @BBCNews? pic.twitter.com/PlvEkEij1V
Dawn Butler has done every citizen within the United Kingdom a huge favour, a profound honour.
Here is that exchange.
Ms. Butler has done every citizen living in the UK a huge favour. She has started to break the taboo, to weaken the spell.
Here is Ms. Butlers statement to Bylinetimes TV.
Here it is, everyone. @DawnButlerBrent’s exclusive statement for Byline TV on today’s events in Parliament.
— Byline TV (@BylineTV) July 22, 2021
She called Boris Johnson a liar and was thrown out for it - but decided it had to be done to highlight the erosion of our democracy. pic.twitter.com/dqTBjutKSR
I want every MP, in every Party, who understands that Johnson's lies have caused avoidable deaths, his lies and the lies of this Government have led to avoidable chronic disease for millions of citizens, the lies of this Government have ruined businesses, to stand up, and to call the lies out, in defence of his or her constituents right to health, as a matter of duty of care - or lose their seat, never to return.
Honest History is a political and social good.
So let's take a quick and honest look at the issue of lies uttered in the English Parliament, Commons and Lords, and understand why it has been an essential part of Empire, Oligarchy and the Ruling Class to lie to the people of England, and to our legislators.
7. How about how New Labour integrated a most odious method of 'assessing disability' grafted from an American Health Insurer that devised a way to reduce claimants entitlements, and sold it as 'reform' and lied through their teeth, causing untold harm to vulnerable people for decades? Dishonesty is everywhere within the English Establishment's relations to the population they dominate.
There can be no excuse for anyone undermining the process of deliberative governance and law making by lying or by any other action with the intent to mislead, manipulate or groom the intended audience.
Let us make an honest forum of this English Parliament - people's lives, welfare and businesses depend on this being done!
Here are two more of my songs, about confronting the Bullies, because we the decent majority of human beings really need to confront this cultural adverse behaviour now, in order to generate the national and international legislative and practical co-operation needed to handle climate change, environment degradation, structural poverty, pollution, war fare and other pressing problems.
These problems that every single one of us are facing right now, right here, will not be resolved unless we all build social human solidarity. Honesty in our legislatures is the key.
I am 62, and it is probable that I will not live to see the problems worsen, I will not be around when my grandchildren are faced with extreme situations in terms of climate, environment, warfare, poverty etc., and I could claim none of this is going to be my problem, it will not affect me. I know that that is such a selfish, myopic stance that I would be utterly disgusted with myself if I was to assume that. How totally immature!
No, we adults, every single one of us, owe a debt forward to all successive generations to try our very best to clean up any mess we have been part of making. That is real adulthood.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."
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