UK: MPs now allowed to have their phones tapped.

Hobbes

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article338691.ece

Just curious what would be the point of this? Seems very watergate tbh.

Nuttzz

To keep listening to Galloway when he leaves the BB house

Kojak

Nuttzz wrote:

To keep listening to Galloway when he leaves the BB house

Hobbes

Nuttzz wrote:

To keep listening to Galloway when he leaves the BB house

A wee bit off topic but appears Galloway has been stitched up. C4 are purposely blanking his political conversations in the house and refuse to air them due to some law they are quoting. Meanwhile Galloway who went into the house to talk about Iraq is oblivious to this going on.

Sand

Oh the tragedy, attention seeker seeking attention denied attention. Hell have his chat with Davina anyway where hell be able to get on his soapbox.

casanova_kid

Hobbes wrote:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article338691.ece

Just curious what would be the point of this? Seems very watergate tbh.

The point is that MI5(or whatever they're called) can tap the phones of ordinary people but cannot tap the phones of MP's which is a slightly unfair, yet you have to take in the fact that mp's are more likely than the public to have influence over who's phoned are tapped so the situation is a bit messy.

Freelancer

Hobbes wrote:

A wee bit off topic but appears Galloway has been stitched up. C4 are purposely blanking his political conversations in the house and refuse to air them due to some law they are quoting. Meanwhile Galloway who went into the house to talk about Iraq is oblivious to this going on.

Ah so thats what he was doing when he was pretending to eat catfood from that middle aged actress.......

Goodshape

Come on people : could we possibly not talk about Big Brother in the politics forum?

...unless we're talking about it in the Orwellian sense, which ironically seems somewhat appropriate here.

Personally I think it's fairly disgraceful. If anyone deserves to be tapped, it's probably the people in power (but then, I suppose, whos going to do the tapping?)

Hobbes

Sand wrote:

Oh the tragedy, attention seeker seeking attention denied attention. Hell have his chat with Davina anyway where hell be able to get on his soapbox.

No he won't. There is a UK law that forbids political discussion on TV unless there is a counterpoint there to argue what is said.

Hobbes

Goodshape wrote:

Personally I think it's fairly disgraceful. If anyone deserves to be tapped, it's probably the people in power

What if M15 were disposed to one political party. Lets say Tony for example. Now Tony knows that his main opposition MP is actually an alcoholic as they tapped thier phone conversations to AA. He leaks that to the press and the MP has to resign.

Of course this is just a made up senario and would never really happen because all politicans are above reproach.

Sand

No he won't. There is a UK law that forbids political discussion on TV unless there is a counterpoint there to argue what is said.

/me shrugs. Poor George, I guess all he gets is the publicity all for himself then.

Of course this is just a made up senario and would never really happen because all politicans are above reproach.

So they should be tapped then - I cant imagine M15 pay a blind bit of heed to bans on bugging MPs when it comes to Adams and Co. The potential for abuse of power always lies in the hands of the PM regardless of what form that abuse may take.

Victor

In 1997, about half of Labour's MPs were shown their MI5 files, some quite thick.

solskjaer20

They've been bugging SF for years.

Now they're trying to legitimise it.

Typical Brits.