Have your say on government e-petitions

Regulate political campaign material and communications

Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016

Published on Tuesday 5th July 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 5th January 2017

Signatures: 180

Tagged with

Citizens ~ Enable ~ EU ~ Referendum ~ UK

Petition Action

Regulate political campaign material and communications

Petition Details

In the most recent UK referendum on membership of the EU, campaign materials & messages on both sides contained gross mistruths, irregularities and exaggeration.

Citizens must be able to rely on campaign messages which are clear, factual and informative so that we can submit fully informed votes

Additional Information

The Electoral Commission regulates a lot of the process around elections & voting, but there is currently no regulation from any body on political campaign materials and messages. I propose that the EC's remit is extended to regulate this as well. This would enable the voting public to execute their democratic right in a fully informed way. As to ask people to make an important choice on anything other than independently-verified facts & information runs the risk of destabilising our democracy.


You can't sign this petition because it is now closed. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus

repetition.me is a Good Stuff website

18.223.159.195 Tue, 07 May 2024 01:36:07 +0100