A former telescope director was once described to me as someone who, if given a free choice between telling a lie and the truth, with no negative consequences either way, would choose the lie as the moral option.
For one thing, he neglects to mention that the regulations he’s talking about were in fact put forward by the European Parliament, and backed by 570 MEPs, with 88 voting against. He also fails to acknowledge that those laws have actually been passed.
More crucially, Mr Johnson is wrong to say that the laws in question were “supported at every level of UK Government.” When the regulations were put forward by the EU, the UK government explicitly did not support the proposals.
A government spokesperson told BBC News in 2014: “Where we are not supporting European Parliament proposals, it is simply because they will not produce practical changes in cab design and could lead to additional bureaucracy for Britain.” The European Council, which includes representation from the UK government, later adopted the directive.
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-boris-johnson-lied-about-eu-safety-regulation-in-his-resignation-letter
The article also says he called out the government on it back in 2014. So he can't even claim ignorance.
ReplyDeleteIt makes you think... if this is the best example he can come out with...
ReplyDeleteI wonder who can take the place of second most punchable face in UK politics, but in that field there are so many choices
ReplyDeleteDogmatic Pyrrhonist Nigel Farage. It's a hard choice because Boris is so eminently punchable, as anyone will admit. But Farage is doing his utmost to earn the title of Mr. Punchable. "... 'at's the woy ye do eet!"
ReplyDeleteGove is the most punchable, Boris the most slappable, and Nigel is the one who most needs a sock rammed down his throat.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor ( rubbing hands together ) right, then. Nothing to argue with, there. Speaking as a religious man who can't quite give it up for a bad habit, the best argument against God is the fact that he doesn't smite the wicked with great whopping lightning strikes.
ReplyDeleteDan Weese Like the Great God Om descending as a tortoise to smote Vorbis, so a Great Sock descending to smote the mouth of Farage would certainly make a believer out of me.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor And lo, God beheld the Tories, that they did wickednesse constantly, both publickally and in secrete places, worshipping at the altars of Mammon and buggering most anythinge they could pin down for long enough...
ReplyDeleteAnd God smote them alle with boils in their priveye places and they did stagger about and curse God the more.
Rhys Taylor Only if there's at least 10 ounces of wet sand in the sock.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to google this Gove person. Farage has been the outstanding most punchable face in the world for years now.
ReplyDeleteGove looks a bit like an English Sessions. I still think farage is more punchable, but Gove is certainly in the running.
ReplyDeleteDogmatic Pyrrhonist I think Gove would be better sitting on those dunking chairs you trigger by hitting a target with a baseball at fairs.
ReplyDeleteBut you have to aim at his face.