“The Chancellor has ordered ministers to identify savage cuts to departmental budgets - despite promising before the election that "no department will be cut next year"” This is why people switch off from politics. Pledges & promises are meaningless.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/sajid-javid-abandons-pledge-end-21389005 …
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...and the Register is overseen by an arms-length body. This way, a pledge has legal & contractual meaning, clear to the public. The severity of the punishment chosen indicates the seriousness of their commitment. This is how politicians could be held genuinely to account.
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So, should politicians make no entries here, it can clearly be said that any pledges or promises - however earnestly expressed - are non-committal in the most obvious way. And for promises broken on the register, there is not only punishment per se - it becomes legal record.
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What do other countries do? The combination of our politicians and media seem to have put us in a particularly poor position tight now. Perhaps we can learn from other more balanced regimes.
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Our main problem is the right wing press
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Public whipping would be more amusing
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Put them in the stocks and provide (v.old) eggs to throw at them.
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There are likely individuals who have started to collate promises made. Is there somewhere these could be made available to reference & use when seeking an answer as to why they haven't been realised?
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"Any time a politician wishes to make a pledge - it goes into a register alongside a personal punishment if broken (sacking, substantial fine, etc)" Balls in a mincer?
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About 18 months ago I replied to a comment in the Indy explaining why the law allows politicians to tell lies and get away with it. A certain well known TV celeb later went on a TV show and tried using that explanation - and it went straight over the other panelists' heads.
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Still looking forward to the entire Cabinet entering HoC on their knees, as per Johnson's suggestion for lying politicians.
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