Politicians and the truth

It is a sad state of affairs that a politician can repeatedly lie in parliament but if a politician calls them out on it, they are censured.  

Boris Johnson has rightly pointed out when this opponent Keir Starmer said something in parliament that was not true, this relating to the UK being part of the European Medicines Agency, something for which he has since apologised.  However, when he made an error about inflation in PMQ's, he did not apologise.  Yesterday, when challenged on the Sue Gray Report, our Prime Minister spread fake news.  

Ian Blackford, did not challenge him on this, but did so about this changing excuses for the Parties that he stated did not happen but attended not knowing that they were parties. He is not the first to do this.  Dawn Butler had done so before, and likewise, got into trouble for doing so.

So we are in a situation with UK politics, were our Prime Minister can lie in Parliament, and refuse to apologise if errors that he has spoken are brought up, but those who bring up the issue of how he is not honest do get into trouble.

I do not like it when people say all politicians lie.  But with rules like this, politicians are allowed to get away with doing so.