Crowdfunding campaign raises over £27,000 to prosecute 'dishonest Brexit politicians', including Boris Johnson

Wouldn't it be nice to hold politicians accountable for their lies?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7141736.html

Unfortunately, just like these "enquiries" we occasionally have, they will never really be prosecuted, even if it did make it to court.

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Originally Posted by ninianclark

I think politicians from ALL sides will say that they were not making predictions but forecasts of what may happen not what will happen. Even when Mark Carney was pressed for figures of the maybe / possibly be recession - his figures said 0.1% GDP - and that seemed to be worse case scenario, the crash years around 2008 we lost 7% GDP to put it into perspective.

Still ALL to early to say with any certainty what is going to happen - as no one knows

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What about driving a bus around Britain that had huge writing on the side saying "If we leave we can give £350 Mill a week to the NHS"?

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Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi

What about driving a bus around Britain that had huge writing on the side saying "If we leave we can give £350 Mill a week to the NHS"?

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'Can' means to be able to though....

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Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi

Wouldn't it be nice to hold politicians accountable for their lies?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7141736.html

Unfortunately, just like these "enquiries" we occasionally have, they will never really be prosecuted, even if it did make it to court.

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So politicians have only ever been accountable since Brexit, all lies and false promises prior to Brexit are acceptable :hehe:

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

'Can' means to be able to though....

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Precisely it's not saying we WILL give £350 mill a week to the NHS

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

'Can' means to be able to though....

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Actually it said this:

http://news.images.itv.com/image/fil...stream_img.jpg

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Originally Posted by Nelsonca61

So politicians have only ever been accountable since Brexit, all lies and false promises prior to Brexit are acceptable :hehe:

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HA HA BRILLIANT YES THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID

If there is any money leftover they can prosecute Cameron & Osborne too for saying the world would end if we voted Brexit, and also Obama for saying we were going to the back of the queue.

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

If there is any money leftover they can prosecute Cameron & Osborne too for saying the world would end if we voted Brexit, and also Obama for saying we were going to the back of the queue.

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Neither side comes out of this with any credibility but there's a difference between offering an opinion and writing bullshit on the side of a bus as a campaign promise.

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

If there is any money leftover they can prosecute Cameron & Osborne too for saying the world would end if we voted Brexit, and also Obama for saying we were going to the back of the queue.

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You'd probably be pretty skint as well mate with all your false nonsense over the years. :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi

Neither side comes out of this with any credibility but there's a difference between offering an opinion and writing bullshit on the side of a bus as a campaign promise.

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I do a lot of work with the ASA and what we can write on websites for my one healthcare client. The comments on the side of the bus would in my opinion pass their reasonably strict guidelines. They never actually promise to do it.

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Originally Posted by TruBlue

I do a lot of work with the ASA and what we can write on websites for my one healthcare client. The comments on the side of the bus would in my opinion pass their reasonably strict guidelines. They never actually promise to do it.

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A fourth line on the side of that bus could have read Let's have lunch I'm hungry :hehe:

None of those statements are related in any way.

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Originally Posted by TruBlue

I do a lot of work with the ASA and what we can write on websites for my one healthcare client. The comments on the side of the bus would in my opinion pass their reasonably strict guidelines. They never actually promise to do it.

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I'd bet they got a lot of votes from that bus bullshit. It heavily implies the £350 p/w (that itself was bullshit) saved by leaving the EU will go toward the NHS.

It would just be better for everyone if campaigns had certain honesty guidelines that they had to abide by.

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

A fourth line on the side of that bus could have read Let's have lunch I'm hungry :hehe:

None of those statements are related in any way.

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The first two lines are part of the same statement.

Spending money on the NHS v a total economic collapse?

Project fear wins in the maniplation stakes, 1-0 George & Dave.

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Originally Posted by Eric Cartman

The first two lines are part of the same statement.

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I meant to say in any binding way, the phone fecked up with the adverts :hehe:

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Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi

I'd bet they got a lot of votes from that bus bullshit. It heavily implies the £350 p/w (that itself was bullshit) saved by leaving the EU will go toward the NHS.

It would just be better for everyone if campaigns had certain honesty guidelines that they had to abide by.

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This shouldn't have made any promises as they were a bunch of no-marks who were never likely to gain any power in Westminster even after a Brexit vote.

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Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi

I'd bet they got a lot of votes from that bus bullshit. It heavily implies the £350 p/w (that itself was bullshit) saved by leaving the EU will go toward the NHS.

It would just be better for everyone if campaigns had certain honesty guidelines that they had to abide by.

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I agree, I just don't see that there is anything there that they ever really promise.

I'd wager my left gonad that the marquee phrase "Let's fund the NHS instead" sounded rather like some kind of pledge to vast numbers of ordinary British people.

Rather along the lines of - 'vote our way if this is how you feel about the NHS, and you would like better..'

Sure it wasn't 'binding' - Evidently not . But it was misleading at best.

Amazing that a few people seem quite happy to shrug it off, even defend it, or at least suggest this kind of deception is acceptable.

My goodness 'we' are easy pickings these days...

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Should just about pay for one lawyer for about a week. Good luck.

Foot stamping jazz handers.love it.

It's not a case of one side being worse than the other, they were both guilty of, at best, a gross distortion of the facts and I still believe the remain side lost more votes than they gained through their scaremongering. The referendum was on a subject which needed a quality of debate which educated and informed an electorate that wanted guidance and all we got was the usual punch and judy stuff.

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Originally Posted by Colonel Cærdiffi

Actually it said this:

http://news.images.itv.com/image/fil...stream_img.jpg

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Still not a promise though.

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Originally Posted by TruBlue

I do a lot of work with the ASA and what we can write on websites for my one healthcare client. The comments on the side of the bus would in my opinion pass their reasonably strict guidelines. They never actually promise to do it.

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What about this one?

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Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee

What about this one?

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I don't think that would be allowed.