Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 13th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make it an offence for Politicians to use inaccurate or misleading information
The EU Referendum has highlighted a need to hold Politicians to account for deceiving/misleading the public by providing inaccurate information in order to influence votes. Not only is this simply unethical, it brings the whole political system into disrepute and can have far reaching consequences.
I propose that it should become an offence for any Politician to provide misleading information whether a deliberate act or through negligence in order to gain electoral advantage. This includes the wilful use of "Spin" in order to deceive or cloud factual information.
Any Politician found to breach the above rule regardless of their level of seniority within a party will be held accountable with a ban from all political duties of between 12-36 months.
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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/119416
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