Submitted on Friday 24th June 2016
Rejected on Friday 8th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Tighten rules on political advertising
Political advertising is currently not held to the standards of truthfulness, decency or honesty required in commercial advertising. We apply far stricter rules when selling a toaster, than when selling the electorate a manifesto. We require the same high standards for all advertising.
True democracy can only stem from an informed populace, and misinformation undermines this principle.
The most obvious example of this recently comes from the EU referendum, where the Leave campaign repeatedly claimed that we spend £350m per week on the EU.
This figure was robustly shown to be untrue early on in the campaign, but continued to feature prominently on advertising throughout. The ASA was unable to act on inaccurate information due to the exemptions on political advertising.
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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.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/154617
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