At this point it’s a news when he tells the truth, not when he lies.
Not seeing an issue here, he didn’t make a false claim there are 500,000 more payrolled employees.
We know he’s a pathological liar and those who don’t are either idiotic or benefiting in some way.
What we need to do is say to ourselves and others, “he’s a liar, how do we get him to get tae fuck?”
He has been repeatable called out for this lie on the Today program, and the PM program on radio 4 .
Boris lies, the Tories want us to be comfortable with being continually lied to.
Just like Putin, Boris never faces consequences for lying to citizens of the countries they lead.
We are pathetic for allowing this to continue.
Yet the speaker doesn’t say a word about it but pulls up people for calling the arsehole a liar. Politics is a disgrace
EVERY single opposition MP should call out Johnson’s lies, take the punishment and walk out of the chamber. When allowed back in, do the same again and again!! Imagine the optics!
If he says it for a tenth time, it becomes the truth and he wins this game of ‘Whose Lie is it Anyway?’
Whats the point in having someone running the nation who doesnt tell the truth?
Boris Johnson makes false employment claim for ninth time in Parliament
21 APRIL 2022
WHAT WAS CLAIMED
There are more people in work than there were before the pandemic.
OUR VERDICT
False. There are 600,000 fewer people in work than there were before the pandemic.
The Prime Minister has made the same false claim about employment for the ninth time in Parliament, despite being warned by official bodies.
During Prime Minister’s Questions on 20 April, Boris Johnson said there are “more people in work than there were before the pandemic.”
This is false.
The latest figures show there were 32.5 million people in work in the UK in the period between December 2021 and February 2022, 600,000 fewer than the pre-pandemic peak. This is a fall in the employment rate (the proportion of people aged 16 to 64 who are in work) of 1.1 percentage points to 75.5%.
It appears that the PM was referring to the number of payrolled employees which is around 500,000 higher than it was prior to the pandemic. Later during Prime Minister’s Questions he used these figures correctly.
However, this figure does not cover all people in work, as Mr Johnson suggested, as it only includes employees. It excludes people who are self-employed, the number of which is 800,000 lower than before the pandemic.
Full Fact first wrote about the Prime Minister making this false claim back in November 2021. He has since repeated the claim eight times in Parliament, and failed to correct the record on any of these occasions.
Problem is, his tory base lap this stuff up and regurgitate it at every given opportunity, to anyone stupid enough to listen. And in the UK, there really isn’t a shortage of these ears.
All statistical comments like these – by ALL politicians – should be ‘fact’ tested in advance. And if they can’t prove them as categorically correct, then they cannot be allowed to say them.
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At this point it’s a news when he tells the truth, not when he lies.
Not seeing an issue here, he didn’t make a false claim there are 500,000 more payrolled employees.
We know he’s a pathological liar and those who don’t are either idiotic or benefiting in some way.
What we need to do is say to ourselves and others, “he’s a liar, how do we get him to get tae fuck?”
He has been repeatable called out for this lie on the Today program, and the PM program on radio 4 .
Boris lies, the Tories want us to be comfortable with being continually lied to.
Just like Putin, Boris never faces consequences for lying to citizens of the countries they lead.
We are pathetic for allowing this to continue.
Yet the speaker doesn’t say a word about it but pulls up people for calling the arsehole a liar. Politics is a disgrace
EVERY single opposition MP should call out Johnson’s lies, take the punishment and walk out of the chamber. When allowed back in, do the same again and again!! Imagine the optics!
If he says it for a tenth time, it becomes the truth and he wins this game of ‘Whose Lie is it Anyway?’
Whats the point in having someone running the nation who doesnt tell the truth?
Boris Johnson makes false employment claim for ninth time in Parliament
21 APRIL 2022
WHAT WAS CLAIMED
There are more people in work than there were before the pandemic.
OUR VERDICT
False. There are 600,000 fewer people in work than there were before the pandemic.
The Prime Minister has made the same false claim about employment for the ninth time in Parliament, despite being warned by official bodies.
During Prime Minister’s Questions on 20 April, Boris Johnson said there are “more people in work than there were before the pandemic.”
This is false.
The latest figures show there were 32.5 million people in work in the UK in the period between December 2021 and February 2022, 600,000 fewer than the pre-pandemic peak. This is a fall in the employment rate (the proportion of people aged 16 to 64 who are in work) of 1.1 percentage points to 75.5%.
It appears that the PM was referring to the number of payrolled employees which is around 500,000 higher than it was prior to the pandemic. Later during Prime Minister’s Questions he used these figures correctly.
However, this figure does not cover all people in work, as Mr Johnson suggested, as it only includes employees. It excludes people who are self-employed, the number of which is 800,000 lower than before the pandemic.
Full Fact first wrote about the Prime Minister making this false claim back in November 2021. He has since repeated the claim eight times in Parliament, and failed to correct the record on any of these occasions.
Problem is, his tory base lap this stuff up and regurgitate it at every given opportunity, to anyone stupid enough to listen. And in the UK, there really isn’t a shortage of these ears.
All statistical comments like these – by ALL politicians – should be ‘fact’ tested in advance. And if they can’t prove them as categorically correct, then they cannot be allowed to say them.