Let us make an honest forum of this English Parliament - people's lives, welfare and businesses depend on this being done!
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.
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.
That video has now reached 27 million views. Here it is.
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, MP for Brent, in London stood up in Parliament, on July 22nd, and pointed out some of these lies, and called out Johnson as a liar. In so doing Dawn Butler has broken a rule of the English Parliament, which states that MPs must not use 'unparliamentary language' which includes calling another MP a Liar. There is no offence of lying to the seated, assembled House of Commons. The Speaker asked Ms. Butler, twice, to withdraw her comments. Ms. Butler refused to do so, and the Speaker then ordered Ms. Butler to leave the chamber, and be escorted off the Parliamentary property.
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.
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.
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.
Johnson is not the only one, but we must start somewhere.
I would urge Conservative MPs to take the bully by the horns, I would suggest that it is much better to be fired by a liar Prime Minister, whose lies have caused so much avoidable harm, and be recorded in history as a genuinely honourable MP than remain seated in that situation, supporting such odious harm causation.
I think that would be a good advert for each and every MPs next election campaign.
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.
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.
1. The English Parliament has never been fundamentally honourable. Operating as a hierarchy of Wealth, Power and Violence, it cannot, by definition and intent, operate with honesty, transparency and probity. Some honourable MPs have sat within it. yes. The presence of honourable people within a dishonest forum does not make that forum honest, especially if they are prohibited from calling out those who are lying. by a rule that stipulates doing so as 'disorderly conduct' which avoids the issue of the actual lie being referred to.
2. Lying is normalised by the English State, and this has always been the case. The State must lie to protect State Secrets among other things.
3. Read Late Victorian Holocausts and examine Hansard during the Irish and Bengali Famines. There are many, many lies told as truth to mislead the parliamentarians and the public.
4. Read The Scramble for Africa and examine Hansard during that time. More lies.
5. Study Collusion in Northern Ireland, and examine the Parliamentary record. More lies.
6. Iraq's WMD, anyone? Deliberate lies.
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.
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.
8. Dawn Butler is breaking the spell. Let's all do this together, all of us. Let us take every step to confront the Bullies and the Liars, and let us make Parliament and politics more honest, and thus safer for the people it is meant to serve, in terms of duty of care to a whole population.
9. I want each constituent across England to speak, write, tweet and text every MP, in every Party, who understands that Johnson's lies have caused death, chronic disease and ruined businesses, to demand your representative in Parliament must stand up, and call the lies out, or lose their seat, never to return. Johnson is not the only one, but we must start somewhere. Start here, start now.
#TruthSetsUsFree
10. Let us make it a criminal offence to lie in every deliberative governance setting, from the local Parish council to Parliament. If the lie is proven to be malicious, then make it a mandatory 10 year sentence, with no parole, as the most serious indictment.
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.
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.
That is a total betrayal of the trust inherent in Democratic Governance.
#JohnsonsLiesKill
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.
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."