Submitted on Monday 20th November 2017
Rejected on Friday 24th November 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make knowingly deceiving the electorate a criminal offence.
All too often the British public are misled or deceived by politicians. Sometimes this is accidental and on other occasions for political or personal gain. Any politician proven to have knowingly deceived the electorate should be held to dealt with by the judiciary as with any other case of fraud.
The Brexit referendum was found to be littered with falsehoods on both sides, the greatest of which was Boris Johnson's pledge to return £350 million to the NHS, following our departure from the EU.
Despite being warned on multiple occasions by the UK Statistics Authority that the information was incorrect and misleading, the Foreign Secretary and his colleagues continued to propagate this falsehood.
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