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Greenpeace UK fined for defying Lobbying Act

Last edited 19 April 2017 at 11:46am
19 April, 2017

Wednesday 19th April, 2017, London - Greenpeace UK has been fined £30,000 by the Electoral Commission for taking a principled stand against the controversial Lobbying Act.

In the run-up to the 2015 election the environmental group refused to register as a ‘third-party campaigning organisation’ under the new law. The move was an act of civil disobedience against a law that curbs free speech and neuters the power of campaigners to hold politicians to account while doing nothing to regulate actual lobbyists.

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