{"id":46302,"date":"2019-01-02T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46302"},"modified":"2019-01-01T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T21:17:42","slug":"in-non-breaking-non-news-politicians-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/in-non-breaking-non-news-politicians-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"In non-breaking, non-news &#8230; politicians lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hectordrummond.com\/2018\/12\/30\/former-tory-mp-thatcher-aide-and-respected-columnist-admits-his-government-conspired-against-the-people-media-silence-follows\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Dummond<\/a> explains why what might seem like a shocking revelation from a former Thatcher MP isn&#8217;t even getting a raised eyebrow from the British media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2018\/12\/why-i-dont-never-have-and-never-will-trust-the-people\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a highly revealing article<\/a> former MP Matthew Parris admits that the Conservative Party would often lie so that it could do what it wanted. And when it didn\u2019t lie it fudged and avoided issues in order to prevent the \u2018people\u2019 having any say in the country\u2019s governance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>our challenge was to find ways of ducking the issue. Once I became an MP, I did so by voting for the principle and against the practice. This subversion of democracy (in Theresa May\u2019s phrase) caused me embarrassment, but not a second\u2019s guilt. Sod democracy: hanging was wrong \u2026<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Among ourselves we talked cheerfully about subterfuge. The Britain of 1979 and 1983 most emphatically did not vote for a massive confrontation with the coal miners. We made sure the electorate was never asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These candid admissions have been completely ignored by the media. One reason they\u2019ve been ignored is, of course, that most people have come to work this out for themselves, so Parris isn\u2019t telling us anything we don\u2019t already know. But surely hearing it from the horse\u2019s mouth has great value? Why hasn\u2019t the media splashed on this? Why haven\u2019t Parris\u2019s old enemies in the Labour party made hay with it?<\/p>\n<p>The main reason is that most of the media, and virtually all the Labour party, is on his side over this. Even newspapers like the <em>Guardian<\/em>. You might think the <em>Guardian<\/em> would be the natural enemy of a former Tory MP, especially one who worked with Thatcher, and certainly on some issues they will regard Parris as an enemy, but the fact is that the <em>Guardian<\/em> wants government to be free of restraint by the people, because its vision of the state involves a leftist government getting into power, imposing its own ideology onto society and removing the power for the people to have a democratic say from most areas of life. So it can hardly criticise Parris for having done what it longs to do. It doesn\u2019t want to bring about anything that might lessen the freedom government currently has to ignore the voter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Dummond explains why what might seem like a shocking revelation from a former Thatcher MP isn&#8217;t even getting a raised eyebrow from the British media: In a highly revealing article former MP Matthew Parris admits that the Conservative Party would often lie so that it could do what it wanted. 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