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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
It wouldn't be tokenism, it would be the real deal, it just wouldn't be wheeled out for every minor fib, just the whoppers. These things don't have to be hard, if the law is badly written we'll just rewrite it until we get it right.
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Could do but would this include the 'sorta' lies?
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"Let's spend £350 million on the NHS instead"
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Is not, technically, a lie. The 'lets' is enough to get them off the hook strictly speaking.
Also Corbyn saying:
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Yes, there is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I’m looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden.
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Is not technically a lie either.
In both cases they were happy to let the perception that this is what would happen float around to help them in the referendum but in both cases they were never strictly promises. Politicians rarely outright lie, they usually word their 'promises' in such a way to have a get out clause.