Immutable rule of socialists:
All socialist politicians are liars.
Pity, it would have led to the opportunity to produce many political ads and the world could really see how stupid they are. Though 97% of it would have been “97% cluck cluck 97% cluck cluck”
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken