2025-11-09
Bearing in mind the old adage of "how can we tell when politicians are lying?" - "when we see their lips move", perhaps in this day and age politics has become so unencumbered by truth that this question has no further relevance.
Nevertheless politicians as a class (with noble but limited exceptions) still seem to believe that lying to us plebs is nothing they should be ashamed of. It's routine. Indeed it's fundamental to the way that elected government is run - they tell us that they represent us, their constituents, in Parliament, when in truth they represent those shadowy figures who control the political parties (and possibly also the Civil Service) behind the scenes by means fair or foul. They just don't talk about it.
In the case of America, one could be forgiven for thinking that "behind the scenes" turns out to be the Israeli lobby, without whose financial support it seems impossible to get elected.
The UK polity may also be encumbered by a similar if rather less overt influence - we were even instrumental in the establishment of the State of Israel way back when, at the instigation of Lord Rothschild. Whether that influence still pertains may be something that we should all think about.
Still, I digress. (NB in this case, "Open Society" means what it says, it does not reference George Soros)
