Lies and 38 Degrees

When awakening from the days of innocence a long time ago it came as a great surprise that the USSR would put out statements that were so self evidently completely untrue. It was an even greater surprise to hear people in this country believing quoting from or merely repeating such statements with approval. No doubt some of them believed what they had heard although there is no doubt that a number knew the true state of affairs but published the lies nonetheless in order to push their own particular political agenda. On the collapse of communism all civilised people hoped that the communist form of propaganda would be put back in its bottle but sadly and to our shame this did not happen and a form of it was used in this country to change the electorate's perception of a political opponent. Alistair Campbell with the encouragement of Blair was a past master of this particular dark art, of which thank goodness there is much less these days. Sad though that the left still thinks this kind of practice is justified. Unless of course they're thick and do not understand the legal advice they've been given why else would a left wing organisation called 38 Degrees (pretentious title) be misrepresenting the effect of the NHS reform bill now going through Parliament other than in the hope the lies they tell will persuade those who are prepared to listen that the reform bill would make certain changes which the bill simply does not address.