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When Congressman “I Know I Am but What Are You?” Wilson accused a truthful President Obama of lying during a speech to a joint session of your elected representatives incongruously assembled, many American reporters compared his to that in the British House of Commons.
An Englishman says not:
It is this kind of unbridled malevolence, accompanied by deliberate disinformation, that is so shocking.
The only thing I have seen in Britain that even comes close to the kind of viciousness so prevalent in American politics emanated from the now-banned Federation of Conservative Students, who sold the infamous “Hang Nelson Mandela” badges and had a centrefold in their magazine showing an electric chair with the slogan “IRA Terrorists: Plug ‘Em In”. This was back in the mid-1980s and they appear to have been reprogrammed since then.
