The Welsh government is set to pass legislation that will ban politicians who lie from public office, and a poll says 72% of the public backs the measure.
The Welsh government is set to pass legislation that will ban politicians who lie from public office, and a poll says 72% of the public backs the measure.
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Submission Statement
Many people will ask who gets to decide what a lie is? This mentions an “independent judicial process”. Courts and juries generally have a good record of establishing truth, so it will be interesting to see how this works.
One of the little realized aspects of so much of 21st-century politics being lies – is how inefficient it makes life. Technology and change are accelerating. Yet every instance our political discourse wastes time countering lies, it’s taking valuable time away from solving problems.
>Under the plans, those found guilty of deliberate deception by an independent judicial process would be disqualified from office.
yeah good luck proving that.
I like make it world wide cuz it’s needed everywhere there’s so many of them everywhere and the new ones every day thinking of new ways to lie to us
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Fact-checkers at the Washington Post found that Donald Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidency, averaging about 21 a day. “America is a warning of what can happen if this problem is allowed to go unchecked,” Nadel believes. “[Our proposals] are designed to stop [the UK] from getting to that stage.”
This will just result in politicians making sure that they never make a falsifiable statement. The more scrutiny we put politicians under, the less likely they are to take a firm position on anything at all.
The question is, who wouldn’t back a measure that stops politicians from lying?
What about the other 28%? They like being lied to and fucked ovet or what?
A legislation to ban people from holding an office if they disagree with a party line is a great idea gat has never and will never be abused.
Why can’t we put accountability on politicians to govern like their life depends on it. If they got in to office just for power it will show in the way they legislate. Then a vote is taken on how good of a job they’re doing and if they hit a certain level of votes then they get the death penalty. It’s not anything new, it’s just more upfront to cut out the bullshit. Like what happened to Marie Antoinette. Lives are at stake with the way politicians govern, their life should also be at stake.
To any rational person this sounds like it should be normal.