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Make it a criminal offence to deliberately mislead the electorate.

Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016

Rejected on Monday 11th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it a criminal offence to deliberately mislead the electorate.

Petition Details

Democracy only works if we have honest and balanced information on which to base our decisions. If it is an offence to mislead consumers when advertising a consumer product, it is surely much more important to deliberately mislead in order to get a vote.

Personal opinions are fine, lies are not.

Additional Information

The EU referendum presented many examples of deliberate manipulation. Whilst the UK might have a gross contribution of £350M, a week, and it might be a good idea to increase NHS funding by £350M, to suggest one can replace the other is deliberate misrepresentation.

This petition is not parochial. It should be an offence, irrespective of who it is who lies.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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