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Why on earth did no one think of this before?
Lying by politicians should be made illegal, a leading Australian barrister has claimed. Julian Burnside, QC, said it would result in “many more by-elections”, but also better government.
Quite coincidently, barristers would probably do pretty well out of all those court cases.
A non-lying politician? Where the hell does he think he’s going to dig one up?
‘Lying politician’ is the ultimate redundancy.
Incidentally, we’ve tried to address the issue, out here in B.C., but it’s been hopeless; the bastards are too deeply entrenched…
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2003-2/issue2/ne-recall.html
Actually, the courts out here DID look at a challenge based on campaign promises reneged on. You can guess how far THAT got…
I just read where “someone” is going to do real time fact checking during the next debates and run a scroll at the bottom of the screen to give a running tally of bulfshnt.
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