“Strong and stable” or “liar, liar”? One of these soundbites will go down in history as the defining phrase of the 2017 election. If Theresa May’s electoral gamble fails or falters, it will be because Liar, Liar, the Captain Ska hit which sprang out of nowhere to become the soundtrack for the election’s closing stages, is a fair description of the extreme Brexit policies championed by Mrs May. While the prime minister cannot be personally blamed for Boris Johnson’s false promises about vast sums of money for the NHS after Brexit, she is guilty of introducing two much more serious falsehoods into British politics – and then repeating them incessantly until they appear self-evident. Mrs May’s first big lie was, and still is, that the…

Source: The Times June 06, 2017 03:11 UTC