Nice headline use of [*Lies, damned lies.*
](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics)
> The expression, “there are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics” is often attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) who was Prime Minster of Great Britain from 1874 to 1880, because Mark Twain ascribed it to him in a 1907 article in the North American Review: *”Figures often beguile me…particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'”*
He was a liar before he was elected. I’m not proud of it, but I don’t have much sympathy for those who voted for him and now feel cheated.
They missed a biggie. Johnson claims he has 7 children and has also claimed he did not force a mistress to have an abortion. In the Stephanie Macintyre court case (one of his mistresses who did have a child by him) the judge said that Johnson had 2 conceptions from other than his wife. So, either he now has 8 children (4 by Marina, 2 by Carrie and another 2) or he has the 7 he recognises and did insist on another being aborted. Either way he is a liar.
The article does not mention no face mask in hospital. I guess it’s not a lie.
Does it bother anyone that most of these articles directly blame Boris and not the entire Tory party. They are all complicit in his actions.
Is it simply so that they plan to replace him with another figurehead and then pretend like its all better now?
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Haven’t clicked yet.
But this must be at least a 50000 word article.
Nice headline use of [*Lies, damned lies.*
](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics)
> The expression, “there are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics” is often attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) who was Prime Minster of Great Britain from 1874 to 1880, because Mark Twain ascribed it to him in a 1907 article in the North American Review: *”Figures often beguile me…particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'”*
He was a liar before he was elected. I’m not proud of it, but I don’t have much sympathy for those who voted for him and now feel cheated.
They missed a biggie. Johnson claims he has 7 children and has also claimed he did not force a mistress to have an abortion. In the Stephanie Macintyre court case (one of his mistresses who did have a child by him) the judge said that Johnson had 2 conceptions from other than his wife. So, either he now has 8 children (4 by Marina, 2 by Carrie and another 2) or he has the 7 he recognises and did insist on another being aborted. Either way he is a liar.
The article does not mention no face mask in hospital. I guess it’s not a lie.
Does it bother anyone that most of these articles directly blame Boris and not the entire Tory party. They are all complicit in his actions.
Is it simply so that they plan to replace him with another figurehead and then pretend like its all better now?