Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal
borQue@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I just read that the English government is considering a Law that forbids politicians to lie. I actually thought that was the whole starting point of politics but somewhere down the road clearly they must have noticed that no-one cared, so they finally made sure we’d care.
A lil disappointing on the progression charts of evolution, but hey! We now can move on.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We have truth-in-advertising laws, and political campaigns are nothing more than marketing/ promotional/ advertising campaigns, so those laws should apply. If someone is making claims that are demonstrably false, their campaign should be ended, and their entire campaign fund confiscated, and they should be prohibited from ever holding office again.
They’ll learn real fast.