The right prefer to make up lies instead, anyone remember Jeremy Corbyns “dancing” on remembrance day or his photoshopped “Russian hat”.
Umm. That Russian hat thing has been fact-checked, and it appears to be established that it was
not photoshopped. That hat appeared to be taller as a (very likely, unanticipated and unintended) result of Newsnight using a curved screen. See for example
https://www.channel4.com/news/factc...eremy-corbyn-to-make-him-look-close-to-russia.
The dancing on remembrance day thing was awful and - to my mind - indefensible. I'm no fan of Corbyn, but he did suffer a lot at the hands of the media. The newspapers concerned did subsequently remove that particular story.
But, I think you're on very shaky ground if you want to imply that, in the UK, the right lies significantly more than the left (I realise you didn't say that explicitly, but that seems to be the thrust of your post). To give a couple of counter-examples: Remember how, last year, Labour and the LibDems were up in arms about how Sunak (allegedly) had cut taxes for banks. Except he hadn't: In his October 2021 budget, Sunak
increased the tax that banks pay (More precisely, he increased the base corporation tax rate that they paid, while reducing a banking surcharge, with the net result that overall tax rates for banks increased). Yet Labour and LibDem politicians continuously claimed that he'd reduced taxes for banks - an outright, bare-faced lie that they repeated over and over again.
Or think about how Labour are always making out that, on health, we have a binary choice between a fully nationalised NHS and an American-style system in which anyone without hyper-expensive insurance gets basically bankrupted if they become ill, and how Labour further, tend to make out that any changes to the NHS the Tories propose amount to Americanisation. That is also to my mind a bare-faced lie: The fact that just about every other European country has an insurance-based system, and most of them work pretty well and not at all like the US system, shows that it's not a binary choice - but that doesn't seem to stop Labour from continually repeating that lie (admittedly, usually in an implied way rather than by claiming it directly).
I'm not trying to do a tit-for-tat here: I appreciate that a lie on one side does not excuse a lie on the other side, and I'm sure you wouldn't have to look hard to find more examples of lying by
both the left and the right (Yes that Boris NHS bus during the referendum...). And like I said, Jeremy Corbyn's treatment at the hands of the press was awful. But the point is, it's not at all clear that a claim that the it's largely the right that makes up lies is correct.
