What Can You Do About Lying Politicians And Public Officials?

you know the ones I mean,

 promise you everything, then renege on their promises once elected, well here is an idea we could think of adopting, and follow the example of this small Mexican town, who recently decided to teach their mayor a lesson for failing to fulfil his campaign promises by parading him in women’s clothes for four straight days, Javier Sebastián Jiménez Santiz won the mayoral race in the town of Huixtán on promises of improving the local water system, but failed to live up to the expectations of his constituents, last last month, after getting sick of his excuses and promises, locals stormed into the mayor’s office and dressed up Santiz and municipal trustee Luis Ton in women’s clothing, mayor Santiz had to wear a long dark skirt and white blouse with ruffles and flowery embroidery, while Ton was given a bright pink dress with white polka dots,

the two officials were paraded through Huixtán for at least four days, starting July 30th, in front of crowds of locals holding signs denouncing their failings. And as if having to wear brightly colored women’s dresses in public wasn’t humiliating enough, the two local officials were forced to stop motorists in traffic and beg them for donations for projects they had vowed to complete during their campaign, in an interview with local reporters, an uncomfortable-looking Mayor Santiz can be heard explaining that he had meant to respect his campaign promises but was unable to do so because the necessary funds – 3 million pesos (about $158,000) – had been diverted to other municipalities, and this is the good bit, as he spoke, people around him could be heard telling him to stop lying… 

the people of Huixtán are now asking for an investigation into whether their mayor stole the funds he claims went to other municipalities, Santiz claims he is innocence, photos of the two Mexican officials being paraded in women’s clothing and having to beg for change from ordinary people to fulfil their campaign promises have been doing the rounds on social media for days, people generally applauded the initiative of Huixtán and said that their own local authorities deserved similar treatment, the problem as I see it in the UK is that if this were done to council officials and MPs there would not be enough polka dot material to go round!