Nina's Blog - Tuesday 30th April 2024

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 16:27

About twenty minutes ago I received a text from the body shop saying that my car is ready and can be collected. But they close at 16:30 and it takes about an hour to get there on the bus.

So I can't pick it up before Thursday because it's May Day tomorrow. Still that should mean that the insurance company will pay me an extra 200 NOK in lieu of giving me a courtesy car.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 17:30

Just read something interesting in The Guardian:

It is an old and not very funny joke: how do you tell if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.

Members of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament, are intent on tackling this age-old problem by bringing in legislation that bans politicians from telling untruths.

If the law comes into force, Wales would be the first country in the world to make lying by politicians a criminal offence.
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Price has tabled an amendment calling for it to be made illegal for a Senedd member or candidate to wilfully mislead the parliament or the public. A defence would be that the statement could reasonably be inferred to be opinion, belief or future intention rather than a statement of fact.

His amendment was backed by the Liberal Democrats and the Tories. The shadow constitution minister, Darren Millar of the Welsh Conservatives, said: “Untruths and misinformation have been a blight on political discourse in recent years.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/30/welsh-senedd-members-consider-criminalising-lying-by-politicians