Basically the Government is effectively pretending to tell the truth. They have a track record (The bus!) By that I mean it thinks it is the truth because it believes that saying what it believes in is the truth. Like large parts of the public here and around they have forgotten what the truth is, and frankly if they say it enough it appears to miraculously be seen as the truth by the public.
The truth may be a concept but a fact is better than that. It is something that can be proved as accurate by current evidence.
There is no evidence that we are testing the numbers we said we would, there is no evidence that we are testing more than other EU countries (Johnson quote) there is no evidence the infection rate data is accurate and there is no evidence that front line NHS workers are all receiving PPE.
In most people's judgement that should be deemed a lie, unintentional or not.
Originally Posted by: fairweather