Thick as a brick, stupid to boot and now a proven liar.
The phrase ’liar, liar, pants on fire’ is said to have come from William Blake’s poem The Liar. There appears to be considerable debate about the origins of the phrase but the first verse of Blake’s poem is pretty clear.
Deceiver, dissembler
Your trousers are alight
From what pole or gallows
Shall they dangle in the night?
And now it appears that Tory Whanau’s claim that she sold her car to meet the cost of living crisis may in fact have been a lie.
Christopher Luxon has been hitting them out of the park in the past week. Can he keep up the momentum? He will if he doesn’t get squeamish or squirrelly.
Public trust, once diminished, is difficult to rebuild and recent years of police misconduct should have woken our lawmakers up by now. It is essential that parliament takes the time to get this right.
The Post, which is already only a ghostly echo of what it used to be, will fade away. Moving to Christchurch won’t save it and anyone who says it will is either in denial or dishonest.
