Follow the BoJo revolution

There’s an old joke that the word “lies” is banned in the House of Commons because it would be used so often that you’d get no business done. The actual reason is that MPs (hilariously) judge themselves above telling untruths. Yet we do hear rather shameless porkies at PMQs. And Tiberius makes a point: why don’t Team Cameron object more about Brown misleading the House like Boris Johnson did today?
 
One of Brown’s main tactics is using misinformation, repeated with such force that no one objects to it (such as “Tory cuts” in the last election where the Tories, alas, would have raised spending and the tax burden with it). So why not take issue with it? The answer, not just from the Tories but most in Westminster, is that a) political claims are somehow exempt from the test of being truthful b) numbers go over the head of the public anyway and c) it will seem like semantics to say “actually inflation was 8% not 10%” or “recorded violent crime is up, not down as the PM suggests”.