Submitted on Sunday 24th September 2023
Rejected on Thursday 5th October 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Petition for MP accountability: Ensure promises match votes after election
All too often we have MPs saying one thing to get elected that are generally popular with voters and another once they've been elected.
We need some form of accountability that shows commitments made before elections to actions taken after they become MPs.
We would like a database of commitments made by MPs and then have that publicised on the Parliamentary website under the MPs listing and any votes taken in Parliament showing how they voted in relation to that commitment and any comments made.
If they've changed their opinion on a subject this should be highlighted and why.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
It's already possible to find out how MPs vote in the House of Commons on the Parliament website: votes.parliament.uk/
Party manifestos, a list of commitments that MPs campaign on before a general election, are also already publicly available.
We're therefore not sure what further action you'd like to see.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do. For example, you could start a new petition calling for party manifesto commitments to be legally binding if that's something that you'd like to see. We've previously published the following petitions on this issue:
Breaking Manifesto Pledges Should Immediately Trigger a General Election: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596673
Make Party political Manifestos legally binding once elected: petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/231586
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