@execprosec.bsky.social
Why don't the most powerful people get criminally prosecuted when they abuse the public? It's time to change this.
Vital to mention @JenniferNadel and Compassion in Politics who didn't get a mention in this story but without them there would be no amendment 13-18 at all! https://news.sky.com/story/hillsborough-law-will-criminalise-lying-by-senior-ministers-say-campaigners-13509580
20.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They feel it’s justified to do it because there’s no statutory law making it clear it’s not permitted. Misleading the Public can’t get in soon enough with the amendments we need.
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Keir Starmer is criminalising lying by Cabinet Ministers. Why aren’t MPs and Lords included?
A constitutional revolution is taking place in Parliament, and almost nobody is talking about it.
https://marcusjball.substack.com/p/keir-starmer-is-criminalising-lying
Keir Starmer is criminalising lying in politics. Why isn’t the whole world talking about it?
A significant constitutional change is moving through Parliament, and it is passing largely unnoticed.
https://marcusjball.substack.com/p/keir-starmer-is-criminalising-lying-489
Criminalising Political Lies Does Not Threaten Free Speech. It Protects Democracy.
And the Law Has Long Settled the Question
https://marcusjball.substack.com/p/criminalising-political-lies-does-14c
Does it anger you when politicians lie to the public? Email your MP today and ask them to sponsor Amendments 13–18 to the Public Office (Accountability) Bill. Find your MP and their email address here:
https://members.parliament.uk/findyourmp
Prime Minister Starmer is criminalising lying to the public by Government Ministers (including himself) for the first time in modern Democratic history. Do you think MPs and Lords should be prosecutable for this new offence too? Tell them: https://actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEZHREA=
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