Today, The Labour Party published a clip of A Reform Candidate that was edited to the point of looking as if he was slating the very people he is a candidate for. The very people who complained about how the BBC had done the same to President Trump I'd suggest. The trend these days to use AI or to edit and put words into people's mouths has got to stop.
We all knew the pathological liar at school or work and no one took it seriously because they lied all the time but this IS serious. These are allegedly our betters and they represent the country our current government and yet they stoop to lying and gas-lighting us and they, frankly, are not very good at it at all. But no one will get sacked or lose their job over it and the BBC only had to fall on their swords after they were made to agree how unpleasant and thoroughly unprofessional it was and even then they sort of blamed us!
What is it with people these days where lying and cheating are part of everything they say and everything they do. I used to work with people of similar attitude who when things started going wrong, instead of facing it head on and tackling the problem started a campaign of lying that dug them deeper and deeper into the sh1t. I recall, being the Project Manager of a job that had taken a sudden and quite catastrophic turn for the worst I called the customer, told him there was a problem and that I would like to come and meet them. I had to go into a big room with a AAA rated business, meet the sponsors and tell them that a major problem which no one could have foreseen had arisen and explain exactly what I was going to do about it. I asked for a few days so I could work out a plan and get back to them "You've got 24 hours to solve this ...." well not quite LOL.
Unbeknown to me the salesman had picked up the problem and went into the customer without asking me (it was my job responsibility not his) and I got a call from the customer who told me that this imbecile had gone into the customer and promised him all sorts of actions (none of which were possible) and lied his socks off. He incurred the customer's wrath, was reported to his boss and me. We then had to read him the riot act as he just went off and unilaterally did this when we were already in a bad situation so I had to fight on two fronts. All because he lied and I don't do that, never have, never will, no matter how difficult it gets.
So why do people think it is acceptable for the people in high power to lie and cheat? They already know they are in deep trouble but to hit the bottom and keep digging and make it obvious to everyone that they are propagating lies is shocking.
I also had to have a laugh at the Green Party who had all their posters and flyers and these portable stands printed with the incorrect spelling of the constituency name that they hope will vote for them. Probably not a good start. In trying to correct this they put out a tweet (sorry, a X) which managed to spell it wrongly again! :-) Such is the calibre of the people wanting the locals to vote for them.
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