253 Lies, Deceits and Scandals by Boris and his Tories.

Not A Good Start, Boris

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1. As A Journalist (8 items)
2. Brexit and the EU (35 items)
3. Sexism, Racism, Xenophobia, and Homophobia (16 items)
4. Mayor Boris (18 items)
5. Boris In Power (36 items)
6. Election 2019 (33 items)
7. Boris's Government (33 items)
8. U-Turns (14 items)
9. The Coronavirus Crisis (50 items)
10. The Climate Crisis (5 items)
11. Russian Interference (4 items)
12. Cronyism (6 items)

As A Journalist

1. Boris Johnson fabricated a quote from his own godfather
2. Boris Johnson was sacked for lying about an affair
3. Boris Johnson was involved in a plot to attack a reporter
4. Boris Johnson was accused of sexual harrassment by multiple women
5. Boris Johnson accused Liverpool of wallowing in "victim status" over the murder of Ken Bigley and the Hillsborough disaster
6. Boris Johnson said "bunch of black kids" made him "turn a hair"
7. Boris Johnson said the children of single mothers were "ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate"
8. Boris Johnson said blue-collar British men were "likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless, and perhaps claiming to suffer from low self-esteem brought on by unemployment"

Brexit and the EU

9. Boris Johnson lied about the EU having a "banana police force"
10. Boris Johnson lied about condoms, "eurocoffins", prawn cocktail crisps, balloons, teabags and many other "Euromyths"
11. Boris Johnson claimed the EU said we "can't dip our bread in olive oil in restaurants"
12. Boris Johnson lied about the popularity of a "no deal" Brexit
13. Boris Johnson lied about the EU preventing bananas from being sold in bunches of more than three
14. Boris Johnson lied about the UK being forced to bail out Eurozone countries
15. Boris Johnson lied about the EU banning children from blowing up balloons
16. Boris Johnson lied about the EU stopping the UK from making lorries safer
17. Boris Johnson lied about EU regulations affecting Crossrail
18. Boris Johnson lied about our EU budget contributions
19. Boris Johnson lied about Brexit being able to solve the housing crisis
20. Boris Johnson lied about Brexit benefits after the transition period
21. Boris Johnson lied about Turkey being about to join the EU
22. Boris Johnson compared the EU to Napoleon and Hitler
23. The Tories claimed that 5 new states, including Turkey, will join the EU by 2020
24. Boris Johnson lied about the EU forcing fish to be delivered with an ice pillow
25. Boris Johnson compared the EU to the Nazis
26. Boris Johnson lied about the EU stopping us from having free ports
27. The Tories claimed there would be "no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside"
28. Boris Johnson lied about mentioning Turkey during the campaign
29. Boris Johnson claimed there "will be no change to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic"
30. Boris Johnson lied about the £350m bus figure and claimed it was actually "an underestimate"
31. Boris Johnson lied and pretended the EU was sending EU budget money to support bullfighting
32. Boris Johnson pretended the Government was threatening businesses to stop them coming out in support of Leave
33. Boris Johnson lied about the EU being "undemocratic"
34. Boris Johnson lied about the outcome of David Cameron's negotations with the EU
35. Boris Johnson lied about a Bank of England report on the wage effects of immigration
36. The Tories claimed we "will have access to the Single Market after we vote leave"
37. Boris Johnson claimed we'd still have single market access after we leave the EU
38. Boris Johnson lied when he implied David Cameron said that Brexit would lead to "World War Three"
39. Boris Johnson refused to apologise for abusing the memory of Jo Cox
40. The Tories claimed "if you vote 'remain' you'll be paying for euro bailouts"
41. Boris Johnson lied about the Vienna convention protecting the rights of UK citizens living in the EU
42. Boris Johnson lied about extending Brexit costing £1 billion a month
43. Boris Johnson lied about Brexit benefiting the covid vaccine program in the UK (and free ports and the proposed European superleague)

Sexism, Racism and Homophobia

44. Boris Johnson said that "Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts"
45. Boris Johnson compared gay marriage to bestiality
46. Boris Johnson wrote about "tank-topped bumboys"
47. Boris Johnson wrote an article reviewing women and calling them "hot totty"
48. Boris Johnson wrote about "watermelon smiles"
49. Boris Johnson said "we don't want our children being taught some rubbish about homosexual marriage being the same as normal marriage"
50. Boris Johnson wrote about "flag-waving piccaninnies"
51. Boris Johnson blamed Africa's problems on the fact "that we are not in charge any more"
52. Boris Johnson compared Muslim women to "letterboxes" and "bank robbers"
53. Boris Johnson claimed to be "down with the ethnics"
54. Boris Johnson said "right, let's go and look at some more piccaninnies" while visiting Uganda
55. Boris Johnson said Malaysian women go to university "to find men to marry"
56. Boris Johnson lied about racist Tories being "out first bounce"
57. Boris Johnson's Spokesperson refused to say if Boris Johnson thinks black people are mentally inferior to white people
58. Boris Johnson lied about immigrants being responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire
59. Boris Johnson said he had "buyer's remorse" when asked about family life with his new wife and mother to his child Carrie Symonds

Mayor Boris

60. Boris Johnson wasted millions on a vanity bridge project
61. Boris Johnson failed to properly declare personal interests in relation to his affair with Helen Macintyre
62. Boris Johnson wasted millions on unusable water cannons
63. Boris Johnson hid his relationship with Jennifer Arcuri
64. Boris Johnson failed to properly declare personal interests in relation to his affair with Jennifer Arcuri
65. Boris Johnson promised to erase rough sleeping in London ... it went up
66. Boris Johnson lied about improving cyclist safety
67. Boris Johnson lied about affordable housing
68. Boris Johnson lied about murders in London
69. Boris Johnson promised not to close London Underground ticket offices ... and then closed all of them
70. Boris Johnson lied about reducing taxes in London
71. Boris Johnson defended Rupert Murdoch during the phone hacking scandal
72. Boris Johnson lied about how many knives had been taken off the streets of London
73. Boris Johnson backtracked on a manifesto commitment to fund rape crisis centres
74. Boris Johnson lied about his bike
75. Boris Johnson hid evidence of meetings with News International executives
76. Boris Johnson is alleged to have said "fuck the families" about the families of the 7/7 victims
77. Boris Johnson lied when he claimed London police numbers would go up, when the Tories were cutting them

Boris In Power

78. Boris Johnson further endangered Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
79. Boris Johnson compared the EU negotiating in its own interests to World War II-style "punishment beatings"
80. Boris Johnson said May's deal was "vassal state stuff" and "utterly unacceptable to anyone who believes in democracy" ... and then voted for it
81. Boris Johnson lied about grammar schools improving achievement in surrounding schools
82. Boris Johnson had a bust-up with Carrie Symonds, to which the police were called
83. Boris Johnson broke the Ministerial code
84. Boris Johnson hid from questions about a staged photo
85. Boris Johnson joked about dead bodies in Libya
86. Boris Johnson said a Queen's speech was a necessity ... then abused the process
87. Boris Johnson said that money spent on child abuse investigations was being "spaffed up the wall" ... and then lied about saying it
88. Boris Johnson lied about there being no press in a hospital ... in front of press
89. Boris Johnson sacked 21 of his own MPs because they disagreed with him
90. Boris Johnson called the French "turds" who "shafted Britain"
91. Boris Johnson lied to fellow MPs during his leadership campaign about keeping the Department for International Development
92. Boris Johnson unlawfully prorogued Parliament in order to block it from performing its duty
93. Boris Johnson lied to the DUP about putting a border in the Irish sea
94. Boris Johnson reneged on his promise of a tax cut for higher earners if made Tory party leader
95. Boris Johnson played games with the lives of millions
96. Boris Johnson lied about the Tories not doing deals with other parties
97. Boris Johnson lied about Theresa May's EU withdrawal bill
98. Boris Johnson lied about Canterbury getting a new hospital
99. Boris Johnson lied about Article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
100. Boris Johnson lied about himself voting in a local election, then tried to hide the lie by deleting a tweet
101. Boris Johnson lied in Parliament about using the words "surrender" and "betrayal"
102. Boris Johnson wasted tens of millions on Brexit propaganda
103. Boris Johnson said "fuck business"
104. Boris Johnson promised to investigate Islamophoia in the Tory party ... then reneged on that promise
105. Boris Johnson wasted police time for political reasons
106. Boris Johnson lied and said he'd lie in front of a bulldozer to stop a third runway being built at Heathrow
107. Boris Johnson told pork pies about pork pies
108. Boris Johnson lied about there being a "million to one chance" of no deal
109. The Tories lied about Yellowhammer
110. Boris Johnson lied about the cost of an extension to Article 50
111. Boris Johnson lied and said he'd "rather be dead in a ditch" than agree a Brexit extension
112. Boris Johnson failed to deliver on his promise that Britain would leave the EU on 31st October
113. Boris Johnson lied about a convicted drug dealer, for which the Telegraph had to apologise

Election 2019

114. Boris Johnson lied about not wanting an election
115. The Tories doctored a video of Sir Keir Starmer
116. Boris Johnson lied about "40 new hospitals"
117. Boris Johnson lied about Labour offering a Scottish independence referendum in 2020
118. Boris Johnson lied about "20,000 new police"
119. The Tories plastered Facebook with ads, of which 9 in every 10 were misleading
120. The Tories lied about Universal Credit
121. The Tories lied about banning fracking
122. Boris Johnson lied about Parliament blocking Brexit
123. The Tories own forecasts suggest Boris Johnson's Brexit deal would reduce GDP growth by 6.7% by 2034
124. The Tories criticised Labour's manifesto spending, while refusing to reveal the costings for their own manifesto
125. Boris Johnson lied and claimed John McDonnell called for exchange controls
126. Boris Johnson claimed shelving plans to cut corporation tax would save billions after claiming cuts to corporation tax always increased tax revenue
127. The Tories lied about the sentencing of child killers
128. The Tories lied and pretended to be an independent factchecking service
129. The Tories doctored a video of Jess Phillips
130. The Tories set up a fake Labour Manifesto website
131. Boris Johnson lied about our corporation tax rate being the lowest in Europe
132. Boris Johnson lied about building six new hospitals
133. The Tories lied about recruiting 50,000 new nurses
134. The Tories issued their candidates with a smear manual
135. Boris Johnson lied about lying
136. Boris Johnson regened on his promise to be interviewed by Andrew Neil
137. Boris Johnson and The Tories lied about the sentencing of terrorists within hours of the London Bridge attack and after the families of the victims had asked that the deaths of their loved ones not be abused for political gain
138. Boris Johnson lied about his Queen's speech being blocked by Parliament
139. Boris Johnson lied when he claimed Labour want to "disband MI5"
140. Boris Johnson lied when he claimed Labour want to "abandon NATO"
141. Boris Johnson lied about the scale of child poverty
142. The Tories set up a fake Labour candidate website
143. The Tories lied about who was responsible for the rise in homelessness
144. The Tories lied about an assault
145. The Tories lied about Labour's planning to scrap the main home exemption to capital gains tax
146. Boris Johnson hid in a fridge to avoid answering a few questions

Boris's Government

147. The Tories broke their promise to make trains accessible for disabled people
148. Boris Johnson reneged on a promise to give MPs a vote on extending the Brexit transition in 2020
149. Boris Johnson broke his promise to hold an investigation into Tory party Islamophobia
150. The Tories broke their promise to raise the minimum wage
151. Boris Johnson banned ministers from appearing on Today on BBC Radio 4
152. Boris Johnson lied about the life expectancy gap between rich and poor narrowing
153. Boris Johnson barred journalists from critical publications from Downing Street
154. Boris Johnson lied about not believing in gestures
155. Boris Johnson backtracked on his commitment to keeping the same Single Market access
156. Boris Johnson lied about new border checks on EU imports
157. The Tories risked failing to get a Brexit deal in order to open the door to roll back the Human Rights Act
158. The Tories wasted hundreds of millions of pounds buying the wrong satellites rather than cooperate with the EU
159. The Tories are using secretive back-channel communication apps to avoid oversight and transparency
160. Boris Johnson lied about customs checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
161. The Tories readmitted an MP who sexually harassed a member of staff to the party
162. The Tories voted to ignore the sleaze of a colleague, instead decided to change the system of parliamentary standards in their favour
163. Many Tories were revealed to be moonlighting in second jobs
164. Boris Johnson lied about child poverty during PMQs
165. Boris Johnson wasted £900,000 on a paint job for a a "Brexit jet"
166. Boris Johnson reneged on a promise to eliminate NHS fees for health and care workers from overseas
167. Boris Johnson defended Robert Jenrick after the latter became embroiled in a scandal involving planning permission being rushed through for a Tory party donor
168. The Tories tried to ammend planning legislation to remove the requirement for newly built homes to have at least one window
169. The Tories voted to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into rivers and seas
170. Boris Johnson lied about Marcus Rashford's school meals campaign
171. Boris Johnson lied about customs checks on goods crossing from Great Britain to Northern Ireland
172. The Tories have made it policy to ban people critical of the government from speaking at Whitehall events
173. Boris Johnson allegedly lied about going camping
174. Boris Johnson backtracked on a manifesto commitment to address the social care crisis
175. Boris Johnson planned to have party donors "secretly pay" for work on his home
176. Boris Johnson spaffed millions on a vanity briefing room
177. Boris Johnson lied about the TFL budget and abused his position to interfere in the London mayoral election
178. Boris Johnson didn't know the name of a Conservative candidate while campaigning for him
179. Boris Johnson asked donors to pay for a personal trainer, a personal chef, and a nanny for one of his children

U-Turns

180. Boris Johnson promised not to close London Underground ticket offices ... and then closed all of them
181. Boris Johnson said May's deal was "vassal state stuff" and "utterly unacceptable to anyone who believes in democracy" ... and then voted for it
182. Boris Johnson promised to investigate Islamophoia in the Tory party ... then reneged on that promise
183. Boris Johnson lied and said he'd lie in front of a bulldozer to stop a third runway being built at Heathrow
184. The Tories u-turned on free school meals
185. The Tories u-turned on the "world-beating" contact tracing app
186. The Tories u-turned on face masks in schools
187. The Tories u-turned on A-level and GCSE results (twice)
188. The Tories u-turned on the evictions ban
189. The Tories u-turned on their promise that people would not have to sell their homes to fund their social care
190. The Tories u-turned on remote voting for MPs
191. The Tories u-turned on the NHS surcharge for migrant healthcare workers
192. The Tories u-turned on the the bereavement scheme for NHS cleaners and porters
193. Boris Johnson complained about a PM stuffing the House of Lords "with his cronies", then stuffed the House of Lords with his cronies

The Coronavirus Crisis

194. The Tories hid details of, and lied about, a contract bunged to a Tory crony
195. Boris Johnson "broke Covid lockdown rules" with Downing Street parties at Xmas
196. Boris Johnson contradicted expert advice to avoid unnecessary socialising over Christmas 2021
197. Boris Johnson dismissed covid as "another scare story, like the swine flu"
198. The Tories ignored warnings in 2016 that the UK did not have the PPE or ventilators to cope with a respiratory pandemic like Coronavirus
199. Boris Johnson missed critical COBR meetings during the early stages of the pandemic ... because he went on holiday
200. Boris Johnson squandered a head start on the crisis
201. The Tories reduced the Department of Health and Social Care emergency stockpile by 40% over six years
202. Boris Johnson said the initiative to build more ventilators during the coronavirus crisis could be known as "Operation Last Gasp"
203. Boris Johnson shook the hands of Coronavirus patients during the pandemic (and for at least a week after his boast)
204. Boris Johnson at best failed miserably to communicate the UK' plan, and at worst followed a damaging and unscientific strategy to deal with the crisis
205. The Tories lied and claimed they put a "protective ring" around care homes at the start of the pandemic
206. The Tories politicised the scientific body tasked with advising the Government on their pandemic strategy
207. The Tories broke their promise to feed children in need during the lockdown
208. Boris Johnson ignored isolation rules after spending time with a covid-positive staffer
209. Boris Johnson ignored the advice of scientists who recommended a brief "circuit-breaker" national lockdown
210. Boris Johnson pursued a potentially damaging brinksmanship Brexit strategy while the economy was being decimated
211. The Tories lied and claimed the UK was doing more testing than any other country
212. The Tories lied about the reasons they failed to join the EU ventilator and PPE procurement scheme
213. The Tories failed to deliver on their promised levels of Coronavirus testing
214. Boris Johnson lied to Parliament about the Government's advice to care homes
215. The Tories ordered 250 ventilators that could not be used safely
216. Boris Johnson barred Sunday Times journalists from asking questions during coronavirus briefings
217. The Tories failed to explain over 10,000 excess deaths in care homes
218. The Tories stopped showing a chart comparing UK deaths to the other nations as soon as it became clear we were doing worse than almost every other country
219. The Tories introduced quarantine for new arrivals in the UK ... 73 days late
220. The Tories refused to publish the scientific advice they were basing their decisions on until after the pandemic
221. The Tories misrepresented the work of a scientist to justify the UK's huge death toll
222. Boris Johnson lied about workplace safety inspections
223. The Tories told coroners not to look at potential systematic failures when investigating the deaths of NHS workers
224. Boris Johnson issued confusing and nonsensical advice to the public
225. The Tories lied about hitting their self-imposed testing target of 100,000 per day by the end of April (even though they fudged the numbers)
226. The Tories diverted emergency funds to rich areas, mostly with Tory-run councils, despite other areas being in greater need
227. Boris Johnson defended Dominic Cummings and described him as acting "responsibly" and "with integrity" after the latter broke lockdown rules to travel to Durham, including driving while visually impaired and taking a day trip to Barnard Castle
228. Boris Johnson relaxed lockdown rules for Christmas and contributed to a rise in cases
229. The Tories discouraged the wearing of face masks and described the scientific evidence in favour of them as "extremely weak"
230. The Tories acted unlawfully when failing to reveal details of covid contracts signed during the pandemic
231. The Tories acted unlawfully when awarding covid contracts to their friends
232. Boris Johnson lied about Weston-super-Mare going into a "local lockdown"
233. Boris Johnson promised to meet the bereaved families of coronavirus victims, then decided he couldn't be bothered
234. Boris Johnson failed to deliver on his promised "world-beating" test and trace app
235. Boris Johnson broke social distancing rules in Parliament to have a meeeting with Tory MPs
236. Boris Johnson resisted lockdown measures because it was only over-80s dying
237. Boris Johnson claimed he would not let the country risk a second spike of coronavirus
238. The Tories funnelled companies through a "VIP lane" for lucrative PPE contracts, without competition
239. Boris Johnson allegedly said he would rather see "bodies pile high in their thousands" than order a third lockdown
240. Boris Johnson "acted illegally" over jobs for top anti-Covid staff
241. Boris Johnson failed to wear a mask in a hospital (during a respiratory virus pandemic)
242. Boris Johnson failed to wear a mask in a crowded conference venue (during a respiratory virus pandemic)
243. Boris Johnson failed to put on a mask in a crowded public train (during a respiratory virus pandemic) after apologising for failing to wear a mask in a hospital (during a respiratory virus pandemic)

The Climate Crisis

244. Boris Johnson lied about commercial nuclear fusion
245. Boris Johnson has repeatedly talked down or denied anthropogenic climate change
246. Boris Johnson dodged a leaders' debate on climate change
247. Boris Johnson doesn't understand and doesn't care about climate change
248. Boris Johnson took a private flight back from COP26, rather than a far more environmentally-friendly train, to go to a dinner at a private club

Russian Interference

249. Boris Johnson hid a report on Russian election interference
250. The Tories decided not to investigate the Russian interference into the 2016 Brexit referendum, despite knowing Russia had interfered in previous Western democratic exercises
251. The Tories ruled out investigating interference into the EU referendum within an hour of the report being released calling for that investigation
252. The Tories failed to implement the electoral integrity recommendations from the Russian interference report

Cronyism

253. Boris Johnson forced experienced civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill to resign so he could replace him with a less qualified Brexit supporter
254. Boris Johnson complained about a PM stuffing the House of Lords "with his cronies", then stuffed the House of Lords with his cronies
255. The Tories ripped up the appointment process for the new chair of Ofcom in order to crowbar in his preferred candidate
256. The Tories handed millions in covid contracts to their buddies and bypassed procurement requirements
257. Boris Johnson handed titles to party donors and ex-associates
258. Boris Johnson promised cushy tax breaks to Brexit buddy James Dyson

Further reading: Boris Johnson's Lies, The Tory Manifesto

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