cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/445597
A ban on politicians lying will be brought in before the 2026 Senedd [the Welsh parliament] elections, the Welsh government has promised.
Counsel General Mick Antoniw […] promised that the law would disqualify Senedd politicians and candidates found guilty of deliberate deception from being a Member of the Senedd (MS). […] It is not yet clear whether the proposed law would make lying a criminal offence or a civil sanction. […] Mr. Antoniw said it was a “matter that goes to the heart of everyone”.
We desperately need this in so many countries !
A law like that would’ve been incredibly helpful back when those Brexit buses were claiming to somehow give the NHS £350M a week, most of which technically never even existed in the first place (as we got back something like 200M a week).
Having Farage, Boris, and their cronies be forced to resign (or even face prison) would’ve been a damn delight.
Authoritarian laws go both ways. The next right-wing government would use it to imprison their political rivals on trumped-up charges.
If such a law had existed in the US, for example, Trump would have used it to throw everyone who denied that the 2020 election was rigged in jail
Suddenly nobody remembers anything.
You wouldn’t have any politicians left? Or is that the whole point
Shh
OH GOD YES!!
How are you going to outlaw all politicians like that
Awesome news. I hope it serves as an example to other governments.
Also: Calling your parliament “Senedd” 👌
I am the Senedd!
Meh. They’ll continue to lie until they get caught and then lie that they believed what they said to be the truth.
Even, nay, especially in cases when that admission would indicate that they were an absolute clown lacking the capability to distinguish their rear end from their elbow.
Lies upon lies until a lie is reached whose truth is hard if not impossible to prove and the whole stack of lies will rest on that in an uneasy balancing act.
It’s not like they haven’t been doing that for centuries already. They attend courses on how to do it, for heaven’s sake.
