{"id":58235,"date":"2021-07-23T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T06:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=58235"},"modified":"2021-07-23T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T06:19:24","slug":"when-telling-the-truth-is-not-permitted-in-the-house-of-commons-it-is-time-to-rebuild-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/23\/when-telling-the-truth-is-not-permitted-in-the-house-of-commons-it-is-time-to-rebuild-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"When telling the truth is not permitted in the House of Commons it is time to rebuild democracy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I published this tweet yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so ridiculous. Everyone knows Dawn Butler is right. Boris Johnson has lied repeatedly in the Commons but that is apparently OK. She says he has - which is the truth - and is suspended from parliament for saying so. Excluding her undermines the credibility of parliament. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKPeTLvkA0\">https:\/\/t.co\/GKPeTLvkA0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1418235536884568070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My friend, Howard Reed, had this to say on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dawn Butler has had to leave the House of Commons for the day after pointing out what everybody with (at least) half a brain in this country knows - that Boris Johnson is a compulsive and inveterate liar.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the House of Commons are that it is absolutely fine for government ministers to lie with impunity - politicians have done this for generations, with the frequency and seriousness of the lies gradually increasing until Johnson's post-truth administration. But if an MP points out that ministers are lying then that is apparently \"unparliamentary language\" and gets you chucked out. An insane system.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Westminster parliamentary system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from first principles. I can't think of a single aspect of the UK governmental system that I'd keep as it is. In other words we need a fundamental revolution. Raze the goddamn thing to the ground and start again. A year zero approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any sane person with half a brain would agree.<\/p>\n<p>Why Labour its not saying so is hard to work out.<\/p>\n<p>But good for Dawn Butler.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s bring on Howard\u2019s year zero approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I published this tweet yesterday: This is so ridiculous. Everyone knows Dawn Butler is right. Boris Johnson has lied repeatedly in the Commons but that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/23\/when-telling-the-truth-is-not-permitted-in-the-house-of-commons-it-is-time-to-rebuild-democracy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parliamentary-reform","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}