Rejected petition Make it a criminal offence for politicians to mislead or harass citizen.

Vibrant democracy benefits us all. Democracy lives on free and informed decisions and its vibrancy grows from informed debate among people of different views. So we can all be better informed, couldn't we just agree that the claims our politicians make must meet a minimum fair factual standard?

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This is no more than we already demand of businesses selling us TVs, tablets and tomatoes. Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations already mean businesses can’t mislead or harass consumers by, e.g: including false or deceptive messages or leaving out important information. If businesses break these regulations they can be fined, prosecuted or imprisoned.

We need new "Citizens Protection" regulations for Fair and Factual Standards (FFS) for politicians and political organisations.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to consider signing this petition on factual standards in electoral events - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/139800

and/or this petition creating an offence fora political figure to knowingly mislead to the public - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119416

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Date submitted 27 June 2016
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