• NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      The fact that this is really the only thing they’ve got on him as well.

      Straws have never been clutched like this.

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    I think it’s clear that he did, in fact, believe that he could hypnotise women’s breasts bigger. And then backtracked when he became a politician and realised this would look bad for him.

    Right now I would still vote for the Greens but my god can’t we have someone with good policies AND who has never tried to hypnotise women’s breasts bigger??

    PS. Here is what his website looked like a year after the Sun article was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20141025071852/http://www.zackpolanski.com/page/1/. The main page doesn’t advertise breast enlargement, but the blog does mention positively the Sun article. He clearly wasn’t ashamed of it, or trying to “defend” himself from misrepresentation. I think we can safely conclude that the guy genuinely believed in hypnotherapy – him being a professional hynotherapist charging £200 a session and all – and that this extended to breast enlargement. Whatever he currently believes, I don’t like denying this apparently basic truth.

    • Lussy [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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      Oh ok so he was a professional hypnotherapist grifting about making big booba with his mind waves.

      I mean shrug-outta-hecks a man’s gotta make money some way, I guess? At least it’s not him having poor judgement and being wishy washy on the topic of Corbyn being an anti-semite

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      1. Is caught on tape making fraudulent claims to someone he was told was medically vulnerable.
      2. Lies about apologising
      3. Not only is there no record of the apology, a week after he supposedly did this, he was publicly claiming that not only were his fraudulent claims truthful, he had done it to other vulnerable people too.

      And some people call this leadership material.

      Not only was he lying then, but he seems to still be lying about it now. That’s a problem.

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    The cartoonists will have a lot to work with there. And it carries an aura of creepiness that could be the kiss of death to his hitherto illustrious political career. He may end up joining the Cheeky Girls Lib Dem guy in the realm of pub-quiz questions.

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      For me, it’s more that he very confidently and bald-faced lied about saying that he immediately apologised.

      I know all politicians lie. But it’s still unacceptable and we should keep calling it out when it happens.