Brexit New Deal/Legal Changes - Risk Still Remains

[spacein_vader]

I like the idea.. But if politicians aren't allowed to lie, how will they communicate with anyone?

Hopefully they won't.

[atemporal]

Hopefully they won't.

shame it's limited to just lying about financial matters. Why aren't they going broader to get precedent for "deliberately misleading the public full-stop." That would be of greater benefit if MPs realise they could go to jail for misleading voters over anything. It's about time they had those same standards they wanted to foist on journalists not too long ago foisted on them in an equally abrupt manner.

[Saracen999]

shame it's limited to just lying about financial matters. Why aren't they going broader to get precedent for "deliberately misleading the public full-stop." That would be of greater benefit if MPs realise they could go to jail for misleading voters over anything. It's about time they had those same standards they wanted to foist on journalists not too long ago foisted on them in an equally abrupt manner.

Because they'd have to rename the Commons HMP Westminster?

[TooNice]

shame it's limited to just lying about financial matters. Why aren't they going broader to get precedent for "deliberately misleading the public full-stop." That would be of greater benefit if MPs realise they could go to jail for misleading voters over anything. It's about time they had those same standards they wanted to foist on journalists not too long ago foisted on them in an equally abrupt manner.

Well, at first I was thinking what if the MPs genuinely believe that they are telling the truth.
But it didn't take long (https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-election-area) for me think that some should just jailed, and their assets stripped / sold with the proceeds given back in the government coffers for being serial-liars.

[Corky34]

shame it's limited to just lying about financial matters. Why aren't they going broader to get precedent for "deliberately misleading the public full-stop." That would be of greater benefit if MPs realise they could go to jail for misleading voters over anything. It's about time they had those same standards they wanted to foist on journalists not too long ago foisted on them in an equally abrupt manner.

Political campaigning used to fall under the remit of the advertising standard agency, unfortunately MPs decided not to renew that remit a couple of decades ago.

Until 1999, non-broadcast political advertising was subject to some rules in the Advertising Code. However, following the 1997 General Election, the Committee of Advertising Practice (the body that writes the Advertising Code) made a decision to exclude political advertising from the ASA’s remit because of several factors that risked bringing advertising regulation in general into disrepute.

(source)

[TeePee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48235812

I mean, I'm not adding commentary, but this left me more than mildly amused...

[peterb]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48235812

I mean, I'm not adding commentary, but this left me more than mildly amused...

And I read the opening line as “... pro-European election rules...”

(Probably not far from the truth really...)

[TooNice]

Rather disappointed that the pro remain groups couldn't come together for the European elections. And ChangeUK hasn't played their cards right.

[outwar6010]