Why would Boris Johnson want to mislead the parliament?

Lie to parliament or the more politically correct mislead parliament? They are one and the same to me. However, in parliament, an MP cant accuse another of lying, so they have to use the term mislead. One can mislead by omitting detail but Johnson rarely does that he just states incorrect details, which is lying. I'm not in parliament so I'll go with the term lie

Boris Johnson is well documented for lying and I believe has been sacked twice for it.

I always thought Johnson was a pathological liar. The most dangerous type of liar as they actually believe what they are saying is true, even though it's not and they will defend the lie even when its proved to them that what they are saying is incorrect.

However, I've since discovered that the key feature of a pathological lie is that it has no obvious motivation. This is clearly not the case with Johnson as there is always the motivation behind his lies.

In a 1941 article titled “Churchill’s Lie Factory” Joseph Goebbels wrote:

“One should not as a rule reveal one’s secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. 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.”

Ring any bells?

Johnson likes to think of himself as Churchill and wrote a book on him, he is also distantly related. Boris and Winston are 11th cousins twice removed!

So why does Boris Johnson lie to parliament and the general public?

Johnson works on the principle of if you tell a lie and keep repeating the lie it becomes the truth in the minds of the general population. Regardless of what parliament thinks, Johnson knows that if he can fool the public they are the ones who vote him in.

Could Mayhem still come out of it a winner?

What is clear from the current Brexit shambles is, Theresa May is probably going to go down as the worst PM ever.

Winston Churchill was described as Pig Headed and Theresa May certainly gets that mantle. She has forged ahead on her own Brexit deal regardless of advise from others and regardless of massive historic vote losses. In this regard she has not brought people together she has alienated and divided.  In any other point in time a PM facing such losses would have to resign, they would have no option.

Now she has the spectacle of her own party voting against a three line whip, which is almost unheard of and they are not going to be sacked for doing so. Truly unprecedented times.

However all is not lost, Churchill made massive mistakes at Gallipoli with his decision to attack Turkey on its Dardanelles coast, at Gallipoli. The ensuing battle lasted over eight months,  involved a total of about a million men on both sides, of whom nearly one half became casualties. The failed campaign led to the humiliation of the British. Churchill was dismissed from his cabinet position, excluded from the War Council, and allowed no hand in the further conduct and administration of the war.

But that was WWI, in WWII Churchill became a national hero with his rousing speeches.

Fast forward to the 80s and Thatcher another Pig Headed politician not known for taking advise, was heading for almost certain defeat in an election until (in my opinion) she engineered the Falklands war, thereby saving herself and becoming a national hero. Although in my mind the real heroes were the troops and not Thatcher. (see this link for my blog on why I feel she engineered the Falklands war)

Is May on Churchill's or Thatcher's level, probably not, shes shown herself to be far more incompetent and a Narcissistic incompetent to boot.  She is only still in power because the Tories need a fall guy for the Brexit fall out. Any other time and they would have had the knives in the back just like they did with Thatcher.

With parliament voting today against a no deal Brexit (although the default legal position is still Deal or no Deal on 29th). We could find, with the prospect of a weakened Brexit or Brexit delay some Brexiteer's could go for another vote on Mays deal on or around the 26th March. (see this link for my prediction on that one.)

Could Mayhem still come out of it a winner?  Personally I don't think so but ...

Only time will tell.




LINKS
https://garysoapbox.blogspot.com/2016/12/was-falkands-war-thatchers-gamble.html
https://garysoapbox.blogspot.com/2019/03/brexiteers-see-their-goal-slipping.html