The 43rd lie

Something I have said regarding my work situation for a long time. Do not lie. Lying is bad in all relationship settings but is particularly corrosive in a workplace setting, because it breeds fear and mistrust, on people that are programmed to screw you over anyway. We don’t need lies to compound incompetence.

Anyway, a saying that I have cultivated, in particular with regards to my boss, is “Don’t lie, because you won’t be caught on your first lie, you’ll be caught on your 43rd” Why? Is this? My boss has been acting as if he’s Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon has just died. Jubilant, he’s unopposed. Why? Because he’s a placeholder and the substantive post has left. However that is not a reason to breed fear into this particular cat. Its not a reason to put your stamp on a place via lies, coercion, deception and bullying. Mainly, I object to the lies.

This is why I object to Boris Johnson so strongly. He’s well documented for being a liar, and a dick. “But he’s OUR dick” his supporters cry.

The purpose of the dick is to fuck you. Yet every time this dude fucks the conservative party to save himself, they act surprised as if he’s meant to be an arm or a toe or another body part that isn’t literally there for either penetration or urination. (He does both to his party, pissing his election victory up the wall)

The reason for my upset is because the political mathematics of Boris Johnson no longer are mathin. He’s a populist who is no longer popular, he’s a election winner who is losing elections. i.e. a chocolate teapot. The only reason he is still in power is the war in Ukraine and its disgusting. Yes, you heard correctly, the only reason Boris Johnson gets to cling onto power, is because somewhere out there, there are terrified Ukrainian children missing their fathers desperately and are praying for the war to end (we all are) but he’s capitalising on a war to save himself. Like Churchill he’s banking on foreign policy saving his awful domestic record. Which is why I’m annoyed at the Conservative party, they knew he’s got a “complicated history” with the truth (i.e. every time he goes to a lockdown party and he sees the truth coming, he runs in the opposite direction) and we knew from the get go it was only a matter of time before he did something really bad (Like partying whilst people were dying???) and we also knew that when he did this unnamed bad thing, he’d never resign, he’d have to be forced out. All these were known when he won the conservative party election. We, the British public, knew better.

 We saw the cad walk in with a cigarette and a leather jacket telling us he planned to skip town tomorrow to run from the cops and we, like stupid sluts opened our legs for him anyway and got upset when we ended up pregnant (with the worst COVID death rate in Europe) and he’d skipped town before breakfast? Why are you mad? This wasn’t a “choose better” situation, nor was it a “read the red flag” situation. He literally told you what he was going to do, and then you got mad when he did it???? This is, 100% on you.

Anyway, the problem with the current situation with the prime minister is that the rot is setting in. Like I said, you don’t get caught in your first lie, you get caught in your 43rd. I believe the political rot in the UK started not with Labour or Conservative, but with a Liberal Democrat. Not Nick Clegg, but Paddy Ashdown.

He was the first leader of a major political party to commit adultery and not offer his resignation to the British People. Why is that bad? Because how you do one thing is how you do everything. So by not resigning for moral weakness, he has forced you to accept his low standards. He should have been forced out. We’d have not been in the horrendous rut we are in now. Why? Because adultery is one of the more heinous crimes that people don’t really understand unless its happened to them. Unfortunately its happened to me.

So what you don’t understand is adulterers gaslight you, say you are crazy for accusing them. They lie, they lie in quantities that are unheard of to the average person (I hope) can you imagine lying to everyone all the time? It must be exhausting. You can’t tell your friends or family where you are or who you are with when you are with your mistress. You lie to your wife, your duplicity extends to work and you lie to them too as to why you are in yesterday’s clothing. The lies build up. Which is why Paddy should have been shown the door. We came to accept lying as a standard that was previously not tolerated. A lot of people hated Margaret Thatcher. No one would call her a liar though. With Paddy’s affair momentum began for the race to the bottom.

Now, remember I was a very young child through most of British politics, so I’ll talk about what I know.

Then we have the John Major/Esther Rasen nonsense. Ditto. Leave, adultery means you are a liar. Liars should never be tolerated, neither should loose morals, if he’s fucking around his marriage, imagine what he’s done to the country. Adulterers do not make good leaders. They lack the authority and give off an air of spinelessness. Look at Clinton, whose most famous words are “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” and humiliated his wife, a scandal she’s worn around her own neck for her decision to stay married (apparently they genuinely love each other) and coined the term “Lewinskiing” as in “to Lewinsky on a desk” (to shag one’s boss on a (Roosevelt) desk) Shit never goes well when good men squander good times with weak will. We always end up paying and its normally after they’ve lewinsky’d us on a desk that we realise it.

Next we have the famous B-Liar in the UK. I was still 9 when 9/11 happened. I marginally support the war in Afghanistan but wish more options were explored at the time. The war in Iraq however, I hate.

Iraq was a lie from the get go. My dad, a revolutionary, hated it. There was an unnamed British MP (female) who went on BBC’s Question time in the time just before 9/11 and said “if we had to go to war to defend our standards of living, we’ll go.” Those words, my father would ring in my ears for almost 20 years as the British justification for the war. In the Iraq enquiry, Tony Blair was recorded saying to Bush “we’ll stand shoulder to shoulder” on the Iraq war before it had even had its first reading in Parliament followed by a “We’ll be there” a solid 12 months before the invasion was even planned. But the thing I take issue with is the dodgy dossier. So lets delve.

The main justification for the Iraq war was that there was a document, nicknamed the “dodgy dossier” that stated that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction or WMD’s as they became known. These WMD’s, it was said to PARLIAMENT the heart of British Democracy, were capable of firing weapons that would reach UK shores within 15 minutes, from Iraq.

THIS WAS A BLATANT AND OBVIOUS LIE. Remember this was 2002/2003. My first year in secondary school. But even I knew it was a lie. So, it is 2022. A solid 2 decades after the war began. To get from London to Bagdad on a commercial flight is 8 hours and 40 minutes. This is 20 years of airline technology advancement AFTER the war. And this is using first world technology. Iraq was a communist puppet and therefore 3rd world in 2003, not open to trade with anyone because its main ally was Russia. So there was no way it was matching first world technology of the time, and if it takes 8 hours 40 minutes in 2022, then it is wholly reasonable to think a commercial flight going directly to Bagdad would take 9 hours in 2002. So please, someone explain how a second class dictator managed to get nuclear warheads to break the speed of sound to get to London in 15 minutes? Its 5211.5km from Bagdad to London, so even traveling at the speed of sound its 4 hours, 15 minutes. So what we’re actually talking about is Saddam Hussein more likely having his nuclear warhead transported by Pegasus’ traveling at the speed of light. No one did the simple maths that said that even if the weapons were travelling at the speed of sound, which is unheard of in commercial or military aircrafts to this day, he’d still not get here in time.

The only other option, was that he had these weapons hidden in Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Wight and you’d hope that people would fucking notice that a foreign force had invaded the Isle of Wight and put WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THERE??? Also, don’t you think our French neighbours would be extremely nervous??? If your neighbour was robbed, don’t you lock your doors extra tight? It could be you??? So, we knew it wasn’t in the Isle of Wight, hiding under the English channel or anywhere on mainland Europe. Which means it couldn’t have gotten to us in the timescales you are talking about. Which proved, with some basic mathematics, that this was a lie. No one could have believed it to be true. It wasn’t meant to be factual. It was meant to be “Truthful” in a medieval sense where they wanted to convey an overall true theme. Like the tales of Beowulf and the age of heroes there to convey truths about chivalry, glory in battle and moral rectitude. How much is Beowulf true? Or the Tales of King Arthur? Or Robin Hood? But they convey a “Truth” and this is what was intended with the dodgy dossier. However, this “truth” was that “Saddam is scary and the communist threat must be dealt with” had precisely nothing to do with the plight of the Kurds who Saddam had killed in their tens of thousands over the years, and had everything to do with Oil. Iraq was sitting on millions of barrels and Saddam wasn’t open to trade. So they stole it.

They carpet bombed one of the oldest civilisations in the world with “operation shock and awe” Does anyone remember that? I did. And I remember being disgusted, and terrified and I wasn’t even in the streets of Bagdad. I remember seeing night footage of the operation because I think the war started at 5am on a particular day with carpet bombing. And I thought to myself “people are literally being killed in their beds” We made 1 million orphans in the war in Iraq, about 400 British troops were killed in the fighting and we overall made the world a deeply unstable place, because each of those orphans is a potential jihadi. And they will slip through all our protections and preventative strategies with the ease of a knife through hot butter, why? Because you killed their parents. Their grandmothers and grandfathers and everyone who would have cared for them. You slaughtered people like sheep, all for oil. The lies that were involved, not just to Parliament, to the British people and the world were off the scale. I pray to God you got what you wanted because people died in their thousands so you could get it.

Then we add insult to injury. We don’t hand Tony Blair off to the Hauge to answer for war crimes. 1 million British people marched in opposition to the war.1.7 million people signed a petition 20 years later to stop him being made a knight of the Order of the Garter. But yet he roams free. Good people are in their graves and he lives and breathes, as does Bush and all the others who pressed a button for good men, on both sides, to die needlessly. To impoverish and rob a nation. Their national treasures “happened” to find their way to the British museum, like the national treasures of each of the British colonies in the African continent. South America and Polynesia too. There is still time. If we arrest him and send him to the Hauge, we have the opportunity to save ourselves, rather than offer up our children as sacrifices for the Jihadis’ blood-lust appeasement Instead we can show justice can and must be done.

To quote Dr King “Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere”

By arresting Tony Blair, I genuinely believe that the world would be a safer place. He killed people and lied the entire way through. The victims on both sides of the war deserve closure and peace.

Anyway, post Blair was the “heir to Blair” Cameron, who by the way was political genius the like of  which we’ll never see again. Despite coming off as completely out of touch, “Hug a hoodie” David Cameron pulled off the biggest political coups in British history. For that I have mad respect for him. He’s no airhead… he used the Liberal Democrats as a human shield. It was an act of political mastery that no one could have foreseen.

He jumped on the “I agree with Nick,” bandwagon, and they had their “Rose garden moment” that was the 2 men announcing their political marriage. David was the man, and Nick was the woman, he got shunted off to the kitchen as Deputy Prime Minister and told to give up her family silver (a personal pledge to the students to not raise tuition fees.) to be fair he didn’t raise them… He tripled them. Hence loosing the trust of an entire generation in politics. It was the fact that it was a personal pledge, made on one’s honour that irked so many. It was literally personal. He traded his honour for another chance at power thinking that his gains were permanent, and he got a referendum on the Alternative vote, which gave him the most thorough drubbing ever. It really did show how badly he miscalculated. Had he kept his promise on tuition fees and then asked for the alternative vote, he’d have had a better chance. He lost 68% of the electorate. God continued to punish him for his lies in the next election in 2015, where he swept the conservatives to victory by being their human shield. Every bad thing they did they could say “we were in coalition with the Liberal Democrats” which meant that the Lib Dems got the blame not the Conservatives. The Liberals ended up with single digit seats. Don’t ever say God doesn’t punish wickedness.

Then we got the Brexit debate. This is, again where the rot from Tony Blair really started to set in. When we turned our heads to destroying each other, both Leave and Remain… Someone important stopped running the country. Name one major education/health/policing policy from 2015-2016? No? Can’t do it? Because there was none. We stopped running our own country and so began the rot that would set in for the next 7 years. David Cameron left us repeatedly stating he was going to secure a better deal from the EU. (Tony Blair had given away our rebate????Jackass, that was worth £8bn????) But this dude couldn’t negotiate his way around a dining room table. So he got shafted, Merkel, and Sarkozy didn’t blink. He did. He came home with a lukewarm deal that they gave him, because being posh and British don’t mean shit on the other side of the English Channel… which is where literally all of Europe except Ireland is???

Leave, lied through their asses and God knows we’re going to pay for it quite literally forever.  Scotland voted Remain, and so got an independence mandate the second that England voted Leave. Wales, and Cornwall 2 of the poorest places in the UK voted Leave… then the next day they asked the EU if they’d continue sending subsidies and grants after they leave because all their jobs depend on them??? Bitch, no??? that’s like your kid telling you they hate you then asking you for a PS5? Fuck off.

So Scotland will be independent in the next 10 years. The SNP will need to fuck up on a cataclysmic scale to lose the independence argument. Quite literally I think Nicola Sturgeon could walk naked through the streets of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness with every racist word tattooed on her body as well as “Scottish people are c****”  and yet win with a landslide for her honesty. Why? Because Scottish people have been treated shitly by the English for a good 1300+ years to my knowledge. So all the chickens are coming home to roost with the independence argument.

Northern Ireland, which I don’t profess to have full knowledge of will follow soon. They were created as a country a 100ish years ago based on religious divides. Now part of the UK, Brexit has created a trade boarder with their natural neighbour Ireland. Which Boris wanted to break international law to circumvent… even though he wrote the treaty… Which will mean that Northern Ireland will eventually get sick and tired of English games with Brexit and re-unite with Ireland. Then it’ll just be England and Wales.

Wales will not be able to be supported by England after the cost of splitting with 2 other countries have been taken into account as well as the economic fallout. The pound with disintegrate and Boris will probably be stoned in the streets because his lies and that of vote Leave have precipitated the destruction of a nation. He will be the last true prime minister of the UK. And he made sure of it.

Theresa May was elected simply because Boris Bottled it in 2016 and her main crime was being a woman. Her other crime was she nestled a viper in her bosom and wondered why it repeatedly bit her?

But then we get onto Boris Johnson proper. He lied as Mayor of London, he has had numerous affairs, once again showing his character. He lied about Brexit. Vote Leave was not a political party, people forgot, and as a result they could not make promises. They promised fairy tales and Rule Britannia, knowing that they’d loose and then surprised when they won…and have been nailed in the ass by the consequences ever since. The only problem is that they’ve made my kids poorer along with it.

This man “prorogued parliament” I.e. dissolved parliament and lied to the queen forcing a general election that he won (against the worst Labour leader of all time? Honest to God was that a joke because it wasn’t funny) he then did up his house with questionable funds to the tune of £200,000 when the taxpayer gives you £30,000 and the Cameron family re-wired the place in 2015, how many other people in the UK can say that their wiring that they rely on for safe electricity that can kill them if goes wrong, has been checked in the last 5 years? I know I can’t. Mine was last checked in 2015 when I moved in. Its 2022. But the taxpayer gives you £30,000 a year…. To decorate a 4 bedroom house. He used £200,000 and said he didn’t know where the money was coming from? That shit better be a lie, because if that is the truth it is even more terrifying. If someone gives you £200,000 and you don’t know who and you take the money anyway you are lining yourself up to all sorts of problems.

Next we have the COBRA meetings. A pandemic was declared on the 11th March by the WHO (World Health Organisation) in the weeks before when it was getting serious. He missed 5! When people were dying in the hospital beds outside wards in Italy and everyone knew it was coming here, he missed 5. The country followed his lead. We had the Cheltenham festival with 250,000 people attending a few days before lockdown 1. Then he gets COVID and survives and everyone treats him like a national hero for not dying. Don’t get me wrong, I was one of the people who prayed he’d live. He'd just had a child. He’s father of many children. I don’t wish fatherlessness on anyone. But to adore him for not dying when he’d caused so much death, is horrendous.

Then we Partygate. Its never the lie, its always the coverup. He lied. He knew leaving parties were going on in the house that he lived and worked. He attended a party for 25 minutes that he didn’t know was a party??? Have you ever been in a social function for 25 minutes or 25 seconds even and not known its purpose? Is he too old for vibes? The fact that people were drinking and laughing should have told him people were there for fun. Not work. But apparently the police agreed (or voted conservative) because there were 16 social events and he got fined for being “accosted with cake” which reminds me very much of when Anne Boleyn was being tried for adultery, the rumour (read, lies) said she’d had sex with 100 men. Yet 4 were brought to trial, including her brother. But they let one go and beheaded the rest and her, despite the fact that it was obvious lies for political purposes, this seems to be the opposite. Fine him once for being accosted with cake, he can spin it as his wife’s fault (blame the woman) then let him get away with the ones that are blatantly and obviously true. It really made me lose faith in the Met. What a lame duck institution. The pictures got out anyway so we all know it was bollocks.

But despite attending leaving parties he lied and lied and lied about the existence of any parties. Which is a resign-able offence. Really to lie to Parliament should be treason, but who is counting?

Anyway, he stumbled but survived the Partygate, through bullish defiance.

What toppled Boris Johnson was…sex. it was always going to be sex. He allowed a pervert to be promoted to deputy chief whip despite knowing that this man had harassed several men. In an environment where he’d be in charge of the men he was preying on, and their future career. So of course they would do what he said, they don’t want to be sexually abused. That doesn’t mean that its right. But his problem was he lied about that too, thinking that his usual offering would get him through, but then everyone started to get fed up. The Cabinet who had been trotted out like horses to present lies as facts got fed up with being humiliated daily by scandal after scandal. So resigned, as did junior ministers in their dozens, all in all about 50+people resigned before he’d go. And he made sure to sack Michael Gove to torpedo his political career one last time. (a bit of est tu Brutus if you ask me) but this seems to be the first real time that lies had consequences for Boris. He lost the job he loved and the power, as well as the £200,000 renovations that someone else is going to live in.

But this is exactly what I’m saying. Lies don’t harm you right away. They always come back and bite you in the ass because Karma is a thing, a terrible thing. They say Karma is a bitch. That’s wrong. Karma is a mirror and all that rot you’ve been dumping on other people, all that divisive lies and hatred and telling people to accept less from you. Well you will need to accept less from everyone else. You don’t get caught on your first lie, you get caught on your 43rd lie.

Grace and Courage.

Annetta Mother Smith.