UK General Election 2019

[Pannonian]

GOD they're acting like the antivaxxers.

Trump helps poison the world. The UK has little proper oversight beyond "Chaps don't do unsporting things because they're not cricket". And that is certainly not working effectively any more - if it ever really did.

There are the tools for proper oversight but they are all scattered around - the ICO, the NAO - hell, the programme "more or less" on Radio 4 does a pretty good stats review job; the Supreme Court and (in Lieu of a president figure) the monarchy. The first two are able to find the truth - especially the NAO and the other two is the framework to enforce.

Will they be plucked out of obscurity to punish liars and get people disagreeing over opinions and not facts? I'm not optimistic.

The current PM has already lied to the monarch, nothing was done about it beyond the courts ruling that the PM had lied, and the PM's organs are now back on the job, and is likely to win a majority. When people vote for known serial liars, what incentive is there to tell the truth?