a) while they all lie, Bodge’s lies have been distinguished by their prolifickness, their audacity and their ambition.
He is quite prepared to say quite obviously false statements that everybody, including him, know are false at the time, yet will try and brass neck it.
He is prepared to lie for unusually high stakes, even for a politician, eg the lies to the Queen, parliament, and everybody else, about the reasons for proroguing parliament.
Whereas other politicians lie to save their own skin/maintain their position and all its entitlements, Johnson is prepared to lie to prevent a vital part of our democracy from operating, and to seize presidential-style (and even beyond that) powers to himself and his cronies in a political coup. That is far above the usual much lower level lies we see as commonplace.
I have never yet seen another politician be so blatant about insisting on the veracity of statements even a fairly young child could work out are obviously untrue. Kind of the political equivalent of the child who denies eating the chocolate, while it is smeared around his mouth.
Somehow, inexplicably, he gets away with it, where other politicians have had to face the music when they’ve over-reached themselves and gone too far.
I’m guessing he wouldn’t be getting away with it if somebody electable were leading Labour. Though there would always be a proportion of voters who would vote Tory even if a chimp were dressed up in a suit with a blue rosette on it, a politician of such low morals who is prepared to blatantly and openly take the electorate for mugs would usually not be able to win an election.
b) how depressing that we are so prepared to be taken for fools by our elected representatives, that when somebody tries to expose a politician’s lies, people fall over themselves to shout about how the others do it too.