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| Thread ID: 98265 | 2009-03-17 23:38:00 | SIS Files on MPs and public servants.... | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
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| 757312 | 2009-03-19 20:18:00 | There was a standing black joke during Harold Wilson's term as Britain's Prime Minister, that if the balloon ever went up and anything happened to Harold Wilson, then the security service would have to take out his deputy, Michael Foot, to ensure that a known communist sympathiser was not in the position to veto the use of Nuclear weapons if it became necesary to use them. So, the British public voted in a communist sympathizer. Perhaps the British public didn't want to use nuclear weapons? Or do you have so little faith in democracy? Perhaps we should have the SS making all 'important' decisions of state? Likewise, standing MPs are elected by people to represent the public. The SIS might not like a particular MP, but unless they want to move to a different form of government, they have to respect that decision. |
shermo (12739) | ||
| 757313 | 2009-03-19 21:06:00 | The Westminster system allows the party or party members to vote the pm and deputy pm. The commy deputy pm tosser got voted in by an electorate as an mp, dont know but guess some poor working class area in poverty rock. The SIS has a job to check everyone even mps they shouldnt be exempt. I hope Locke and his ilk are under constant surveillance. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 757314 | 2009-03-19 23:27:00 | The Westminster system allows the party or party members to vote the pm and deputy pm. The parliament of elected members chooses the deputy pm, and you think the SS should overule this decision. The commy deputy pm tosser got voted in by an electorate as an mp, dont know but guess some poor working class area in poverty rock. So these people's opinions shouldn't count? Pop quiz: Which form of government embraces these ideals? |
shermo (12739) | ||
| 757315 | 2009-03-21 07:03:00 | If an MP or a public servant hold 'extreme views', either of the right, or of the left, should they have tabs kept covertly on them ? And who defines 'extreme'? Exactly, someone of socialist persuasion could believe what might seem to us a moderate centre-right winger 'extreme' . The answer: Intel can snoop on the public life of ALL public figures (not their private lives) . We'd have found out about the many episodes of Helengate much sooner, that's for sure . |
twentynine (14421) | ||
| 757316 | 2009-03-21 07:26:00 | Extreme is anybody that is not me. I am extraordinarily moderate to excess. |
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