The Tories have 'debased our parliamentary deomocracy' with lies, says ShelaghFogarty.
After Boris Johnson faced the Privileges Committee this week to explain his actions during Partygate, Shelagh Fogarty told her listeners that the Conservatives have been "playing with the truth".said. "They've debased it with the lying, with the playing with the truth, if not out-and-out lying."
She described the "spectacle" of yesterday's Question Time studio audience - predominantly Tory voters - being asked by Fiona Bruce to raise their hand if they believed Boris Johnson was telling the truth while being questioned at the Committee hearing: "Not a single hand went up.
"Then you've got Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, sending puerile tweets out at 10 o'clock at night about really important health worker disputes that affect every one of us", the radio presenter added, explaining that her sister-in-law is "afraid to look at the news" about junior doctor strikes while she awaits a "life-saving operation" that has been cancelled twice already.
"He does it legitimately, but he does it, and then tells other people that they can't do things legitimately because it's not in the spirit of things", Shelagh said. She also pointed out the "billions of pounds" of fraud that took place during the pandemic, adding there have been "no real attempts to get that back".
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