Comments on: Expect libel reform now that MPs are affected

By: Joe Beavers

Joe Beavers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:52:07 +0000

Your MPs need to take a lesson from the Washington State (USA) legislature. When they passed the Public Records Act (aka FOI), they simply exempted themselves from it. For them, it is a public record only if they say it is.

By: craih

craih — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:09:48 +0000

unfortunately Bell, you’re not a ‘citizen’, you’re a ‘Subject.’

Thus you have no rights really, because there is no Constitution in the UK; you exist to serve the crown!

By: John L Bell

John L Bell — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:55:55 +0000

Have to say that, as a taxpaying citizen voter, I would expect to see The Fraud Act 2006 used against those in this Fraudsters’ Parliament who have stolen from the taxpaying public BEFORE any consideration is given re: libel law and how it affects MPs!

By: Sam C

Sam C — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:55:31 +0000

Ah, but MPs will tell you they only care about their rights because they’re important for maintaining democracy! I’m sure they can explain how granting themselves these privileges (and buckets of cash) is a selfless sacrifice for our benefit.

As you say, it’s the same old, same old. I’m sure a lot of MPs go into politics to make the world a better place, but the majority seem to get corrupted by the self-centred ego trip and freebie wagon that is Westminster. Then they can’t see the big picture, can’t see how absurd they look, baying like howler monkeys at PM’s Questions while skiving off debates on important issues; more concerned about their pay packets than the fate of the country (and the other countries they decided to send their army into).

No MP seems to have made any attempt to explain why 600+ of them haven’t found a few minutes in the last ten or twenty years to sort out this problem. Pathetic.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:28:28 +0000

When the bird comes home to roost on your own head, your viewpoint suddenly changes…