Chris

Politicians are frequently misleading, however even in their game telling deliberate, outright lies to the public is frowned upon.

Walking past empty seats, sitting on the floor and then telling YouTube that there are no empty seats isn't misleading - it is a bare-faced lie, apparently because the facts were getting in the way of the story they wanted to tell.

In another age - not so far in the past - this would have been a resigning issue. Unfortunately, what passes for the Labour leadership is now operating according to some bizarre pseudo-revolutionary principle where just about anything is permissible as long as it furthers The Cause.