Since ‘The Young Ones’, it has been overused, but Benito Mussolini was literally a Fascist – and even kind of invented the term.
As Il Duce (‘The Leader’) in Italy, his vanity and wish for full control were off the scale – his motto was ‘Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state; I am the state.’
Telling untruths was his speciality. It supported his narcissism when his promises weren’t matching reality.
His lies started with the underscoring of the unemployment rate, so that there was no evidence that there were a lot of people without work.
Having got away with this, he moved on to the rate of inflation. People who were seeing prices shooting up thought they were just unfortunate to visit this particular shop to buy this particular item.
But then he went too far, and it backfired. He made out that Italy’s army was the second largest in Europe. However, when it came to World War Two, he simply didn’t have the numbers and ended up hung upside down from a meat hook.
Presenting a gloss on what’s going on is something that Margaret Thatcher did too.
She changed the definition of the ‘unemployed’ so that the true four million figure looked like it had fallen to two million. The media hardly said a word about it.
And now, Starmer’s Labour is doing it, and they are also not being checked by the pathetic corporate media.
Starmer’s already got a good record of lying, as he smeared hundreds or thousands of people like me as ‘antisemitic’ because we disagree with his Thatcherite politics. What a scumbag.
He also famously lied that it was okay for Israel to deprive Gaza of food, water, and electricity and then – during the general election – lied that he’d lied!
The big lies told by Starmer and his soapy prefect, Wes Streeting, are about the NHS.
Many people mistakenly voted Labour because they thought Labour would be better with the NHS than the Tories. I’m afraid the truth is that they are worse!
The boast about more than one million NHS appointments being completed since the election is a fiddle based on what ‘appointment’ means. In my case, I had an ‘appointment’, and it was a phone call to say I will be seen in three months. That’s not an appointment!
Today, we have this one about 1,500 GPs being recruited.
Well, surprise, surprise, they have redefined what a GP is. What used to be a locum is now being added to the list of GPs. These are not people who have been recruited; they’ve just been rebranded (a bit like a supply teacher being called a teacher).
Why is Labour lying? Because they are up to no good with the NHS. They are gutting out the NHS, leaving just the logo, encouraging private companies to take over more and more of it, and leaving a threadbare service where untrained physician associates dangerously diagnose and treat patients.
To cover for their NHS sell-off, they are pointing the finger at Reform and saying, ‘Nigel Farage can’t be trusted with the NHS.’ Pointing at someone else while you commit a crime is an old trick.
It’s almost like they are wannabe fascists.
