Chancellor George Osborne was wheeled out to produce one of the more absurd political speeches of our time this week. Osborne set himself up in a building site in the City of London, then invited in the media to tell them that opponents of ideological austerity had “lost the argument” and that the UK economy was “turning a corner”. In his 1941 paper, Churchill’s Lie Factory, Nazi propaganda chief Dr. Joseph Goebbels wrote “The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.” Goebbels knew of what he spoke. It would appear that the UK government is continuing the tradition, claiming Britain is booming when it is crumbling– and large sections of the mainstream media are letting them get away with it.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:25:59 +0000
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