We really need to criminalise political fraud. If a politician or someone acting for a political party makes claims in public that *they know* to be untrue or seriously misleading, there ought to be legal consequences.

For a start, it certainly ought to make that person ineligible as a candidate for public office. Perhaps fines and prison sentences could be appropriate too, at a similar level to those for corporate fraud like insider trading.

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#PoliticalFraud.