Members of Wales’ Parliament Warn Against Making Lying Illegal – IOTW Report

Members of Wales’ Parliament Warn Against Making Lying Illegal

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There should not be a specific law which would make “deliberate deception” from the Senedd [link added] a criminal offence, politicians have recommended. Instead they have said the system that governs standards in the Senedd should be toughened up.

Instead, the Senedd’s Standards of Conduct Committee has recommended that the existing standards process should be toughened up with the ultimate sanction being the politician who has misled the Senedd facing a public vote on whether they should be removed from office. More

11 Comments on Members of Wales’ Parliament Warn Against Making Lying Illegal

  1. “Making Lying Illegal” That’s rather subjective ain’t it. All of Europe is lost. They’re brain dead. They should allow Russia to take over for their own good. They are not a consumer market for us. They offer nothing to us that we need. They only take our tax dollars. We should be done with them. Fck em.

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  2. Lying certainly SHOULD be illegal – especially by politicians, government officials, and members of the Media.
    Punishable by death.
    Using the standard: “If I say a thing I know is not perfect truth; it is a flat perjury.”
    No “spin.”
    No “half-truths.”
    Lying is a grievous breach of faith – it distorts the perception of events.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  3. Meanwhile these arrogant bastards, who are suddenly beyond reproach because they want to outlaw lying, stand there with a right arm salute saying “It’s OK when we do it!”

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  4. The problem with making “lying” illegal is who gets to decide what is a lie? Once a liar achieves that position in government, the Truth gets branded a “lie” and you end up being the God forsaken shithole that the UK is today.

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  5. The Welsh Parliament is admitting that they continuously, or continually, deceive their constituents through lies.
    That, in fact, they cannot be Members of Parliament without lying.

    Pretty sad state of affairs.

    But, I assume, as here, it is a crime (illegal) to lie to representatives of the gov’t? Why is that? Illegal for Welshmen to lie to their “government” but not illegal for Parliament to lie to Welshmen.
    And they are shouting it from the rooftops that they are liars!

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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