Listen carefully....
As I believe I have said before, the greatest lesson I ever learnt at University was from a tutor who told me “don’t listen to what people say, listen to what they don’t say.”
If political journalists in the UK paid attention to that advice we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in. The number of times they are conned into believing that something is cast iron and there is no wriggle room is amazing, it is when the politicians start laughing.
So take our lying PM, did he say in the House of Commons, there were no parties in No.10? Did he say that he knew there were none? Did he say he never attended one? And if he did, was it a deliberate attempt to mislead the House?
You could get a coach and horses through this lot of disingenuous statements.
The PM was “repeatedly informed” there were no parties, was “told” that the rules were not being broken and “genuinely believed” that none of the events he attended were a party.
And with one leap he is free.
The PM has been “badly advised”, cannot be everywhere at once, was “shocked” to find he inadvertently broke the rules but “thought” he was telling the truth in the Commons. If he mislead anyone it was an accident and he is happy to set the record straight.
The fact we all know he s a liar who partied while we followed the rules is not enough, can you prove he did, can you prove he lied?
No you can’t because he didn’t say what you thought he said when he denied these things.
It is what liars do.
Who is laughing now?
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.