Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Cooper and other government ministers have repeatedly claimed: Palestine Action attacks people, not just weapons-making equipment Palestine Action is funded by […]
  • FelixCress@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 days ago

    Irrespectively of this instance and in general: public lying with an intention to mislead the public should be a criminal offence. Full stop.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Remember Bojo. The court literally pointed out that parliament had passed no law banning lies to the public.

      And without a good several million votes clearly at risk no parliament is likely to do so.

      But at the end of it. Parliament is required to pass such a law for the courts to have any say. Even then it would only apply to speech outside parliament itself. Parliament is in charge of anything said during parliament.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      31·
      11 days ago

      Maybe a hierarchical political system requires lying to exist. Humans don’t tend to accept hierarchies otherwise.

      (My conclusion is fuck hierarchical systems obviously, not trying to say lying is a “necessary evil”)