Not surprising that Rachel Reeves has been caught gaslighting the British public - Yorkshire Post Letters

So the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been caught gaslighting the British public by claiming a £30bn black hole in the nation’s finances, when she knew from the Office for Budget Responsibility that this was simply not the case.

Outrageous? Certainly. Surprising? Sadly not.

The Labour party, the BBC and most of the Left have been gaslighting us for decades on every major policy issue. In fact, the evidence is all around us that the truth is the opposite of what we are piously told by ‘progressive’ politicians and journalists.

The claims that endless effectively unlimited non-Western immigration is in our interests.

The manifesto promises of lower energy bills, while pursuing the ‘Net Zero’ policy, which is intrinsically incapable of achieving that end.

The insistence that multiculturalism is a success despite the unending evidence to the contrary.

The confected outrage about ‘stop and search’ and then when the Police back off, the complete indifference to the epidemic of stabbings in our cities.

The ostentatious assertion of a commitment to the rights of women and children, at the same time as the omerta over half a century of racist predominantly Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs in our cities and towns.

The High Streets with where the evidence of organised crime, illegal immigration and modern slavery is blatant. The plush barbers’ shops with hardly any customers. The endless Vietnamese nail-bars, usually with a majority of male nail-technicians.

The claims of championing ‘working people’ while structuring the benefits system so that many are trapped on the dole.

The evidence that their claims are false is all around us, but most have been brow-beaten into silence. As George Orwell observed in his great work, 1984: ‘The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’