creednmdAug 9, 2023
Juggling With Eggs

Dear BBC, Channel 4 and Guardian,

Please cover this debate. Our democracy depends on it:

Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence”.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576886

The debate is scheduled for 23 October 2023.

Yours faithfully,

The British People

If you agree please boost.

Petition: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence

The Government should introduce legislation to make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence. This would mean that all MPs, including Ministers, would face a serious penalty for knowingly making false statements in the House of Commons, as is the case in a court of law.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
Aug 9, 2023 at 8:33amWeb
Show threadJuggling With EggsAug 9, 2023

I fully expect the right in this debate to defend parliamentary privilege - the right to say things in Parliament that in the outside world could lead to libel - but that’s not what this is about.

It’s about politicians knowingly or unknowingly lying to the House and never correcting the record.

It corrupts our whole political system because we should only legislate on known facts, not lies.

A serious sanction against lying to Parliament has to be enforced to enable democracy to continue.

Show threadKenneth John BardsleyAug 9, 2023
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It should start by giving the Speaker greatly enhanced powers to sanction MPs or Ministers even the PM, who do this. Right now, he has absolutely no executive power to do that. Then he is vilified for not taking action. The present one could certainly be tougher, but he has no teeth to bite with. He can only threaten to send a member out of the chamber, a threat he has so far failed to implement, as a response to rowdy behaviour. Not good enough.
Show threadabominabledrhAug 9, 2023
@JugglingWithEggs @BBCRadio4 - I hope we can count on you to fully cover this.
Show threadVoronAug 9, 2023
@JugglingWithEggs because otherwise you will end up like America with politicians like Trump and MTG.
Learn from our mistakes, you can stop this now.
Show threadFrank Going AntiFa - 🇺🇦Aug 9, 2023
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We in the United States need a law like this!
Show threaddangriersonAug 14, 2023
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