Pants on fire!

Isn't it funny that we have defamation laws to protect people from the damage caused by others telling lies, we have an Advertising Standards Authority to protect people from being misled by untruthful adverts, but it appears that in politics, and particularly in electioneering, anything goes. I'm afraid that I've long since adopted the strategy of disbelieving on principle anything a politician tells me. You know the old joke - how do you know when a politician is telling lies? It's when his lips are moving!