At best, many investors now see the ratings given by S&P et al. as meaningless posturing, and at worst as complete untruths.
May, the ECHR's leading opponent within government, had long found Grieve an irritant; as far back as 2011, he had dismissed objections like hers to the convention as "hysterical untruths".
We seem to have descended further and further into the abyss of campaign irrelevancy and untruth, as well as abnegating whatever notion the framers may have had about representational democracy.
This is all an illusion, made up out of thin air, and contains as many truths and untruths as there are fans with opinions.
The Irish public enterprise minister, Mary O'Rourke, described the firm as "purveyors of untruths".
The big lesson of this year's campaign -- a lesson that we can be sure politicians will take to heart -- is that a candidate can get away with saying things that are demonstrably untrue, as long as the untruths involve big numbers.
Pat Parnell and Jeff Pang were seasoned veterans who kept the car going straight ahead whereas I just kept yanking the wheel and trying to make us drive off a cliff by saying as many lies, untruths, and borderline offensive one-liners as I could.
Pat Parnell and Jeff Pang were seasoned veterans who kept the car going straight ahead and I just kept yanking the wheel and trying to make us drive off a cliff by saying as many lies, untruths and borderline offensive one-liners as I could.
"I consider any insinuation on this as an untruth of a highly provocative nature.
Among their recommendations for better informed plebiscites, as referendums become more commonplace, are longer campaign periods and an independent body empowered to correct misleading statements such as the untruth – holy writ according to Gisela Stuart, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson – that Britain sends a weekly £350m to the EU.
What started as an untruth became the truth.
