A serial liar. A campaign of online disinformation. The risk of foreign meddling. Sound familiar?
Read more: Opinion | Britain’s Dirty Election - The New York Times
Not because they face a choice between
two historically unpopular candidates for prime minister — Boris Johnson
and Jeremy Corbyn — on Dec. 12. Nor that they are being forced to
trudge to polling stations for the third general election in five years,
this time in the depths of the miserable British winter.
Pity
British voters because they are being subjected to a barrage of
distortion, dissembling and disinformation without precedent in the
country’s history. Long sentimentalized as the home of “fair play,”
Britain is now host to the virus of lies, deception and digital
skulduggery that afflicts many other countries across the world.
In this as in other respects, Prime Minister Boris Johnson — a serial liar
who lost his first job as a journalist for inventing quotes — resembles
President Trump. And Britain, whose election is breaking down under the
pressure of manipulation, increasingly looks like the United States.
Truth and falsehood have become malleable concepts. Anything goes.
Read more: Opinion | Britain’s Dirty Election - The New York Times
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