What was the original lie?
His first lie:
"Vote for me and you will get a 1000 euro's"
*voted in*"Well, you know, I'm really sorry but economy and crisis. What I meant was not 1000 euro's more like tax relief"
"But the taxes went up!"
"Well, you know, I had to compromise"
Second lie:
"I will not give another cent to Greece if I'm elected again"
*voted in*
*1 day later*"We will have to pay another couple of billion for the EU to stick together, solidarity etc."
"Technically this money isn't going to Greece itself but a fund that will send it to Greece instead so..."
Third lie:"I will recover the truth about the MH17 disaster"
"I spoke frankly with the Russian President"
Putin: I had a nice chat with this gentleman"
Secretary of foreign affairs: "... some people still had oxygen masks on when they found them."
Researcher: "This is not true, everyone was dead when the blast hit"
Press: "Did you lie Mr. Secretary?"
"Researcher was under NDA and not allowed to discuss these matters in public"
Press: "But the secretary did on live TV..."
"He's the vice president of Europe now"
Fourth lieNew Foreign secretary: "I was in the room when Vladimir Putin said he wanted to restore the Soviet Union by force. I told this to my NATO colleagues and we took measures to reign him in."
CEO of oil company: "Actually, I was in the room and he misinterpreted my comment about the meeting"
Foreign secretary: "No I was there, I think"
"I believe him, he was there"
Staff: "He was never there. He never sat a foot on Russian soil"
Parliament: "This douchebag has to fly to Moscow in 3 days to talk to the Russians and he lied about meeting Putin and telling everyone he wanted to restore the Soviet Union."
Press: "Wait a minute. Is the whole Ukraine thing based on a lie from our foreign secretary who told this story to all of NATO when he was an envoy there?"
"I trust him, I think he's credible, he's my second hand man, he's a great guy"
Foreign secretary: "I'm outta here before everyone discovers I'm responsible for the new cold war because I bragged about meeting Putin."
Latest lie:*Government decides to cut a specific corporate tax that cost 1.4 billion to tax payers*
Parliament: "Can we see how you came to this decision, are there any memo's, notes, policy papers? As parliament we are entitled to this information."
"No not that I recall. I recall we discussed it but there certainly weren't any memo's."
Staff: "Look what we found, a bunch of documents"
"Oops, well like I said there are no memo's, these are notes"
"Oh that does like like a document I guess. How about I release them to the public so you can all see the information that I told you didn't exist TRANSPARENCY"
Press: "It says MEMO right at the top of the document"
"Really? I don't remember what it looked like"
Dude that wrote the memo that is now secretary: "Well technically he never knew about my personal memo that this is we never talked about it"
Staff: "This memo was send all the place. Literally everyone in the department, had this memo it wasn't personal"
"Well technically we didn't lie. I told you I didn't remember these memo's existed"
Parliament: "These memo's have a timeline of meetings on this subject. Including with the CEO of Unilever"
"Well you know, we have lots of meetings, lots of memo's, I can't possibly remember them all"
Parliament: "So why didn't you say 'oops I made a mistake there are memo's' when the staff dug them up and waited for the media to uncover this"
"Honestly I didn't make a mistake and neither did the secretary. He couldn't possibly have known that I didn't know that these memo's existed and/or that his personal memo would be mixed up with the official notes of all meetings when we formed the new government"
Parliament: "But you discussed this one the phone?"
"The call was about something else, trust me"
Parliament "That's a load of horseshit"
"Well technically you say I'm lying. But I'm not lying, I told everyone the truth that I didn't remember."
Parliament "But isn't it bad for a PM to not remember 10 meetings on a subject and what happened to 1.4 billion in tax cuts?"
"I will release the timeline and my schedule so you can see everything that went down
Parliament: "This said, you called the new secretary TWICE to discuss these matters"
*6 hours of debate on the semantics of lying*
There was also the time the government had paid off some criminal and both the Justice Minister and his Deputy were removed from office.
Anyhow new poll. Now 75% of the country thinks he's a liar. Good Job mr. Prime Minister.