Voices: The King and I: Why the Tories’ latest campaign poster had to be pulled
It was Josef Goebbels, the evil genius of propaganda, who famously remarked that “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” True enough, but what is less often quoted is the essential rider he then added: “The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.”
Which brings us to Conservative Central HQ and their online “poster” boasting that “Britain is the second
