Boris Johnson taken to court.

[Workingman]

It's about the £350m on the side of the Referendum bus and he is accused of misconduct in public office.

Hang on, don't they all do it all of the time, in manifestos, in interviews, on Question Time etc? Whenever they do not answer a straight question truthfully, or are 'economical' with the truth, then they are also guilty of misconduct. There would not be enough courts, court time or judges to deal with the cases.

[cromwell]

They'd better get another 649 cells ready...

[TheOstrich]

Who runs this sorry state of a country these days - politicians, people ……. or a few individuals with their own axe to grind?

[Workingman]

Hmm. A good current case is James Cleverly, totally misnamed and not the brightest button in the box, in his leadership pitch saying that not delivering Brexit at all would be "significantly more damaging" than no deal = Remain, what we have, is worse than no-deal.

Papers released by the government, of which he is a member, state the exact opposite.

So, who is going to challenge him? Crowdfunders or those officials installed to protect the truth?

Difficult one, isn't it?

[cromwell]

It is. I'm not in favour of politicians lying at all, but once you start where do you stop?
Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell? Weapons of mass destruction which could be deployed at 45 minutes notice? That led to us being involved in the gulf war with hundreds of thousands of dead and injured.
David Cameron and George Osborne? Immediate recession and emergency budget if we voted to leave?
Interestingly Andrew Pierce on Sky last night said that once upon a time it was a resignation matter if you misled the House of Commons. Not now, when they are deliberately lied to and misled on a regular basis.
Perhaps a code of conduct for politicians might be an idea. Maybe to try and get them into good habits.

[Workingman]

Perhaps a code of conduct for politicians might be an idea...

Ah, but they would be the ones setting the rules and it would be their parliament (mates) enforcing them. That went well with expenses didn't it?

Given that, I would go for a permanent crowdfunding operation by the people picking MPs off one by one till they got the message. However, ensuring that it was apolitical and did not pick the trivial over the serious would be impossible meaning that politicians are fairly safe - business as usual.