What's the point in this sort of vacuous lying?
https://news.stv.tv/politics/alister-jack-claims-scotland-has-no-desire-to-be-in-eu-despite-overwhelming-remain-vote
I got a great answer on this from a friend in another place
'Also importantly, what's the point in not vacuously lying? Lying has become the ubiquitous political wallpaper upon which nothing sticks. It's important to lie about the small things so that lying about big things seems normal and unremarkable. It's also costless. Yesterday we had a Health Secretary say that he disputes the government's own figures about excess deaths, not for any honest cogent reason.
So today we have a Scotland Secretary who lies about stuff that people who live here know isn't true. It's partly aimed at his constituency here, partly to bait the opposition, but mainly it's his small contribution to the bigger lie that everything is alright. No, we have not embarked upon a course of action that will end the country. No we are not presiding over a very great number of excess deaths due to our neglect and mismanagement. No we are not getting poorer relatively, and - uniquely among the G7 - in nominal terms. To engage in reality is to lose the argument, so they must avoid it at all costs and make that seem normal. That's the point of it.'
