Lib Dems and Greens Promote Clean Campaign Pledge (Wokingham Liberal Democrats)

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Lib Dems and Greens Promote Clean Campaign Pledge

April 18, 2010 12:00 PM

Prue (left) and Marjory (right) sign the Clean Campaign Pledge

The Green Party and Lib Dem candidates on Thursday 15th April signed up to a pledge to conduct a clean and fair General Election campaign. Marjory Bisset for the Greens and Prue Bray for the Liberal Democrats are urging the other candidates to also commit to running a clean campaign.

The Clean Campaign pledge includes promises not to make personal attacks on other candidates, not to mislead the public and not to accept donations from dubious sources.

Prue and Marjory say "Politics has been discredited in the eyes of many people in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal. We think it is time to show that politicians can be honest and truthful, and have integrity. And we hope that the other candidates in the Wokingham campaign will sign up too."

The full text of the Clean Campaign pledge is:

We, the undersigned, pledge in the Wokingham General Election campaign:

· To show by our actions that politics need not be a dirty game, but can be a clean and positive activity, engaged in genuinely for the good of all.

· To tell the truth about what we have achieved and stand for, and about what others have achieved and stand for.

· To refrain from making personal attacks against, or misleading statements about, other candidates in written literature or verbally.

· Not to mislead the public about who is doing well and about who is likely to win in these elections.

· To make only honest and reasonable promises.

· To fight a clean, positive and honest campaign around the issues that concern the people of Wokingham

· In particular, to be honest about public spending, and not to scaremonger in ways that may frighten the most vulnerable members of our society, such as children and elderly people.

· To take money only from organisations and individuals whose motives in giving us money we do not have reason to suspect.