If Andrej Babis tells porkies about his salamis, then he can surely tell them about his political rivals.


The secret of an accomplished liar is to lie big and to lie first.


‘John Major’s Pork Pie Factory’ was the title of a sharply witty New Labour party political broadcast in the 1997 UK general election, which ended eighteen years of government by the British Conservative Party.

Unlike the former British prime minister, Andrej Babis has a pork salami factory –which nevertheless manufactures what the world’s most famous Cockney, Michael Caine, would call ‘pork pies’, and the rest of us term 'lies'.

Agrofert’s ‘Kostelecke uzeniny’ makes salamis with 55% meat. But the packaging declares a meat content of 70% (see today’s MfD, rapidly degenerating into another of Agrofert’s pork pie factories, for details on this story).

If Andrej can tell porkies about the meatiness of his salamis, then he can surely tell them about his political rivals.