Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
It is indeed…especially as I find myself agreeing with both of them.
Swale is right imo, there are many decent MP’s but they get tarred by association with the more newsworthy wrongdoers, and I agree with AF about the so called ‘captains of industry’.
The problem I think is possibly that we have moved from parliamentary dodginess being confined to a small minority eg, John Profumo, Jeremy Thorpe, Cyril Smith…to a perceived normalisation of bad behaviour amongst the ‘elite’ from Blair’s lies to Boris’ bus, ‘oven ready’ Brexit, virtually all Trump’s behaviour, ‘party gate’, Hancock’s dodgy dealings, Covid ‘racketeers’, Farage’s misleading poster, the Post Office debacle etc etc.
I don’t know if this is because more things are exposed now, possibly because of the influence of social media, or whether we’ve just reached a state of moral vacuum where anything goes…tell whatever lies you like, someone will believe them if they’re repeated often enough.
It's often "who says whatever first on a subject is perceived to be the truth teller". Especially if you say it often and loud enough. Everything after that is a lie, even the truth.