On another forum a poster said, “I find it really hard to understand how people can swallow the bullshit that gushes from Johnson’s mouth”.

My reply was, “They believe it because it’s what they want to hear. Johnson is a past-master in the dark arts of gaslighting and dog-whistling (as, indeed, are his sycophantic acolytes in the Parliamentary Party), and he knows the truth embodied in the Goebbels Philosophy.”

It’s the founding principle of the Populism now espoused by our Far-Right party-in-government, and I see no evidence of any of the other parties having the faintest notion of how to combat it.