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Make misleading the House and the Electorate by politicians a criminal offence

Submitted on Thursday 15th November 2018

Rejected on Wednesday 2nd January 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make misleading the House and the Electorate by politicians a criminal offence

Petition Details

Trust in politicians and the political system is the bedrock of democracy. In the still ongoing Brexit debate (and in other discussions) many untruths were/are presented as facts by politicians. This has eroded trust in the political system immensely, is unacceptable and needs to change.

Additional Information

This 'misleading' starts from the top down. Something is seriously wrong if the PM of this country could claim pre- Brexit Referendum that it is 'clearly in the National interest' to remain in the European Union but subsequently continues to use the same terminology (in the National Interest) to defend here plans to take this country out of the European Union. This is both unethical and misleading. Trust in the political system needs to be restored and politicians need to be held accountable.


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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.

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