I always found that to be a cheap cop-out. It’s your vote, so your responsibility to check the information you get. If you’re not willing to do that, you shouldn’t be voting.
Maybe, but voters get used to normal elections where we do have some protections against outright lies, as the likes of Phil Woolas have discovered, and against elected politicians being paid mouthpieces, as Neil Hamilton and now Nathan Gill have found. We’ll never know why Piggy Cameron did not include better protection against lying in the referendum laws.
I always found that to be a cheap cop-out. It’s your vote, so your responsibility to check the information you get. If you’re not willing to do that, you shouldn’t be voting.
You are not immune to propaganda
Maybe, but voters get used to normal elections where we do have some protections against outright lies, as the likes of Phil Woolas have discovered, and against elected politicians being paid mouthpieces, as Neil Hamilton and now Nathan Gill have found. We’ll never know why Piggy Cameron did not include better protection against lying in the referendum laws.