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Punish Election Campaign Lies
Politicians must be held to their word when they make election campaign promises. Breaking a campaign promise must be akin to a form of perjury, punishable by removal from office.
Why is this important?
If a citizen lies to the police it's Perverting the Course of Justice and has serious consequences. If a citizen lies in Court it's Perjury and has serious consequences. But when Politicians tell lies in order to get themselves elected it's just 'Politics'.
Politicians must be held accountable for the lies they tell in order to get elected and the only way to do that is to force them to be as good as their words by making the breaking of election campaign promises, such as David Cameron is doing right now with cutting tax credits, akin to a form of Perjury that is punishable by them being removed from office as a minimum.
Politicians must be held accountable for the lies they tell in order to get elected and the only way to do that is to force them to be as good as their words by making the breaking of election campaign promises, such as David Cameron is doing right now with cutting tax credits, akin to a form of Perjury that is punishable by them being removed from office as a minimum.
