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This is Charlotte Hennessy (who has blocked me so I canât reply). Charlotte has posted this on one of my videos. She is one of the champions of @NowHillsborough and one of the most consistent and outspoken voices on the Hillsborough Law.
Which is why itâs even more of a revelation to see that not even her, one of the movementâs biggest names, is aware that legislators are currently not included under the Hillsborough Law. MPs, Peers, MSs, MSPs, and MLAâs will have no Duty of Candour or any requirement to abide by the Misleading the Public Offence. They are all cut out of schedule 2. Our amendment proposes adding them in for all their acts outside of parliamentary proceedings.
It sounds like we want the same thing, Charlotte? Weâre just disagreeing on if we already have it. Please check the Bill text and youâll see. Full briefing here: execprosec.org/amendments-brâŚ
Also please stop sending me abuse I would appreciate it. Your work and this Bill is historic and vital. I am just trying to improve parts that Iâve noticed donât work (democratic process etc).
Politicians have written themselves out of the Hillsborough Law.
No duty of candour for MPs and peers. No offence either.
Sign the petition: execprosec.org/petition/?refâŚ
Marcus J Ball (Private Prosecutor and Producer) retweeted
Living in a country where MPs & Lords make the law but donât have to abide by it. Enquiry after enquiry but nothing ever changes.
Marcus J Ball (Private Prosecutor and Producer) retweeted
The Hillsborough Law was supposed to hold public officials accountable for deliberately misleading the public!
Only ⌠MPs and peers have EXCLUDED themselves from the new law when acting as public officials!
So the people who made the law have ensured the law doesnât apply to them. Only to the little people. So whatâs the point of it?
The House of Lords is about to pass the Hillsborough Law without including themselves.
Peers could mislead the public on TV and break no law.
Ask me in the comments how you can help.
Government ministers: yes. MPs: nope. Peers: nope.
The Prime Minister is covered. Backbench MPs and peers aren't.
Help me change it before it becomes law: share this.
A nurse who lies to the public could go to prison. An MP who says the same words won't.
Ministers, police and civil servants are covered. Backbench MPs and peers aren't.
Send this to someone who needs to see it.
1/3 Lying to the public is about to become a crime in the UK.
Ministers, civil servants, police, the military: all covered by the new Hillsborough Law.
Guess who isn't? The people writing it.
2/3 Backbench MPs, shadow ministers and peers are writing themselves out of the offence, which carries up to two years in prison.
Our amendment covers every legislator across the UK, for what they say outside Parliament. Peers vote on it later this year.
3/3 A law against deceiving the public cannot exempt the people who make the laws.
Please share this. Back the campaign: execprosec.org
It's happening again: the Conservative front bench want to delay the Hillsborough Law's Misleading the Public offence until the government finishes a review. No deadline.
It's only a probing amendment for now. If it came back for a vote at Report stage, that would be bad.
1/3 Last night two peers tried to delete the heart of the Hillsborough Law: the offence that makes it a crime for public officials to deliberately mislead the public. They gave no statement saying it was just a probing amendment.
It failed. The offence stays in the Bill.
2/3 Lord Alton said removing it would "lobotomise this bill", warning of "bewilderment, perhaps even betrayal" among the Hillsborough families. The Government said it must stay.
No vote was forced. Thank you to the peers who stood up for the families.
The government says including MPs and peers in the Misleading the Public offence would interfere with parliamentary privilege.
Totally irrelevant. Our amendment only applies outside Parliament. It says so at the top. And the vote on it is separate from the Bill.
A message to every member of the House of Lords.
You asked me not to go to the press. I'm doing it anyway, because I'm trying to help you.
If you criminalise lying to the public for everyone apart from yourselves, public trust in Parliament will be decimated.
Marcus J Ball (Private Prosecutor and Producer) retweeted
1/4 Two members of the House of Lords are attacking the Hillsborough Law.
Tomorrow they will try to delete its entire Misleading the Public offence: the part that would make it a crime for public officials to deliberately mislead the public.
Here is the story.
1/4 Two members of the House of Lords are attacking the Hillsborough Law.
Tomorrow they will try to delete its entire Misleading the Public offence: the part that would make it a crime for public officials to deliberately mislead the public.
Here is the story.
3/4 They tabled it three days after we proposed that members of the House of Lords should be covered by the offence too.
I can't prove why. But it looks like retaliation: peers who would rather wreck 37 years of the Hillsborough families' fight than face the law themselves.