Submitted by David Woodhouse on Thursday 22nd July 2021
Published on Wednesday 28th July 2021
Current status: Closed
Closed: Friday 28th January 2022
Signatures: 261
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British ~ Commons ~ Deliberate ~ democracy ~ House of Commons ~ Liar ~ Liars ~ MP ~ sense ~ Time
Revoke rules against accusing MPs of deliberate falsehoods in House of Commons
The rules that prohibit MPs from accusing other MPs of committing ‘deliberate falsehoods’ in the House of Commons are an anachronism.
They made sense in the days when it was unthinkable that Members would deliberately mislead the House, and historically served to guard against inappropriate hyperbole.
These rules serve no purpose in today's House, and are not appropriate today, in a time when certain Members are felt by many to have misled the House time and time again.
It makes a mockery of British democracy, for one MP who uses the term "liar" to be sanctioned, while no action is taken against another to whom many feel the term accurately applies.
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