The Queen’s English in a fading empire

Overheard during the news marathon on the Boris Johnson saga.

This sentence from Conservative Brexiteer MP, Peter Bone and a Boris Johnson fan, who sounds extremely posh and a tad arrogant. Surely a fact is always true: "You are saying a fact that is not true."

And this from Sky reporter John Crea, again talking about the resigning UK prime minister: "A clear lack of dishonesty.” 

Would that not make Boris Johnson an honest and truthful man?

And the man himself, standing outside 10 Downing Street said that he had the best job in the world.

To think that the sun never sat on the British Empire. How ruling organisations, secular and religious, subjugate and fool so many.