The lock-down is giving
a good opportunity to reflect and prepare for what comes next, but the
uncertainties are so bewildering, that it’s difficult to focus.
However, what seems as certain as night
following day is that the UK’s Conservative government will continue to spin
and lie in response to every challenge. Johnson’s track
record of lying is thoroughly recorded, as is that of Gove
, Raab,
Patel,
and Hancock.
Yet they keep going. The tactic, from the same dezinformatsiya black propaganda & disinformation playbook that has
worked for Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, seems to be to spout whatever bollox suits the
narrative of the moment, in the hope that more people will believe it than not,
before quietly withdrawing it later when attention is elsewhere.
The Tories did it about
Brexit. They’re doing it about Coronavirus. And they’ll be doing it about the
climate and ecological emergency when it’s back on the mainstream agenda.
Extinction Rebellion’s
first demand is Tell the Truth. Not
complicated but massively important. This is reality we need to confront, not
some computer game. If we allow lies and
spin to become the norm of discourse, then we are simply, and comprehensively, screwed.
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