Some should stop lying, others should just stop talking

SO, do politicians become liars, or do liars become politicians?

The age old question — lets call it the Bertie Conundrum — has surfaced again after British prime minister David Cameron was caught out telling a string of untruths so weirdly banal you would have to assume he has some sort of compulsion.

After peddling the very odd sounding story that he and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg were so close and “normal” that they built IKEA wardrobes together when he first moved into Downing St last year, Mr Cameron has now admitted that this story was “not entirely rooted in reality”.