Beamter sagt, Tory-Steuerforderung sei nicht vom öffentlichen Dienst eingereicht worden

It sounded like nonsense at the time, but it doesn’t matter. Starmer didn’t say anything to deny it, the viewers will remember the figure, and there’s no consequences for lying if you are a politician.

Sunak…..Bringing Boris era honesty and integrity back to politics.

I called it as I saw it. He pulled it out of his behind. Sunak is a billionaire. He is very very smart with tax and how it affects people differently depending on wealth.

Like many things in politics it’s all a bunch of smoke and mirrors to avoid technically lying but really telling an untruth by extension.

The assessment he’s claimed shows Labour will tax everyone £2000 more is based on a bunch of effectively made up policies plugged into a calculator by spads that results in this “figure”. It doesn’t adjust for income, it doesn’t take into account the closure of loopholes, nor does it represent any kind of clarity in what that money would be spent on even if it was true. But because it’s been produced by “independent” people (who have been given biased primary information to calculate from) he’s claiming this as the result.

To be clear he is strictly speaking not lying when he says the result of such assessment can be broadly extrapolated to this figure per working household. However, he’s obfuscating where such a summary came from, and lying about the veracity of it by leaning on the concept of it being an “independent” reveiw, when it’s anything but.

Kier Starmer did, at one point, make this same point about the data they used in the first place. But with only 45 seconds to respond, it’s difficult to properly explain why some figure Sunak is trotting out is wrong and why. That’s why it’s important to look into these things further.

Sunak: were going to raise defence spending and give a tax break to pensioners, conscript hundreds of thousands of teenagers, and we haven’t lifted tax thresholds with inflation, but HIS budget is going to cost you more in tax!

Wtf. I did not get it at all.

i mean obviously it wasn’t true, what matters is that it made starmer look shifty and he did a shit job refuting it. both of these guys lie all the time; starmer supporters have spent the last few years making a virtue out of his lying to labour party members and to the public, and now its a disgrace when someone else lies about him? grow up.

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Compalining to Ofcom is all we really can do. If enough complaints come through at least it can hit the news even if Ofcom don’t do anything about it.