PANTS VERY MUCH ON FIRE

 

 

Matilda told such dreadful lies.

It made one gasp and stretch one’s eyes.

 

Hillaire Belloc, Matilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death.

 

 

Tell me lies.

Tell me sweet little lies.

 

Fleetwood Mac

 

 

One of the first gags I ever heard from my father, a very funny man, was; How do you know if a politician is lying? His lips are moving. Then, in the 1970s, lying politicians were a stock figure of fun, playing a role in the Punch and Judy play of society in those gentler times, like the randy milkman or the pencil-moustachioed income tax inspector. Things are different now.

Lies, deceptions, half-truths and misleading statements are now the stock-in-trade of the modern, Western neo-Socialist government. With each month, it seems, they grow more audacious. Let’s look at the case of Rishi Sunak and illegal immigration, the so-called ‘small boats’ crisis. Firstly, Sunak ignored it because the media were doing a good enough job hiding it away. Then, as a result of citizen journalists and the gradual awareness of GB News and Nigel Farage, Sunak allowed his Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, to use some fairly muscle-flexing rhetoric to appear to address the problem. This after Braverman’s predecessor, Priti Patel, had come up with a scheme to transfer illegal immigrants to Rwanda. The amount of such immigrants – mostly Muslim – is, at the time of writing, equivalent to a number discovered by Muslims. Zero.

Then Sunak realized that legal immigration was actually supplying the bulk of the incoming hordes, and that system was open to abuse, and people were starting to notice despite the best efforts of the MSM. So, he switched his focus to the small boats. Recently, he showed himself to be just an old-fashioned Hindu gentleman by claiming that his policies – which don’t actually exist – were working, as the number of immigrants crossing the English Channel had decreased for the first time in a while. The way Sunak gamed the figures was by putting in a personal appearance  on the Kent coast on a day when the weather was too bad for any crossings to be attempted. A couple of days later, a record 616 undocumented immigrants arrived in 12 boats, handed over as always in the middle of the Channel by the French to the English.

The only processing that can be done with an arriviste who has no documentation – having thrown it, along with his phone, into the Channel – is to fingerprint them if they appear on no other database. What use is that? You now have an immigrant who will likely disappear into the micro-caliphate the UK is becoming, and you are left with a set of unattributed dabs. Utterly useless.

Sunak knows his days are numbered, and is reverting to the politician’s default setting, which is to attempt to lie your way out of everything. This weary old ruse has just done for Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland. Forgive my naivety, but what would the West be like if politicians stuck to the truth?