Why Should Mps Be Granted Anonymity For Their Misdeeds?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972519/MPs-vote-grant-anonymity-accused-expenses-fraud-sex-harassment-else.html

[Mamyalynne]

//They will remain anonymous while being investigated – and might not be named even if they are judged guilty.//


It's the second part of that sentence that doesn't sit well with me.

[Theland]

They love a good laugh - at us!

[ladybirder]

I think this is absolutely outrageous. How dare they? Why should they be treated any differently to everyone else in this country? One law for them and one law for the rest of us.
I'm sitting here spitting with rage. How very dare they I ask again?

[sandyRoe]

Is there to be a new dispensation, 'Do as we say, not as we do'.

[Minkyme]

Disgusting, immoral and downright saddening and at the same time enraging.

One good rule for them and crappy rules for us.

[naomi24]

Shameful.

[The_Rim_Greaper]

"Is there to be a new dispensation, 'Do as we say, not as we do'. "

err no, a new one isnt needed, the current one has been in place for a good few hundred years...

they are obviously under the impression that they are above the law... why on earth they are still allowed to vote for themselves on matters that govern them is beyond me...but then finding an impartial panel/commission/board/comittee or whatever they would be called to decide would be near impossible... a bit like the electoral commission made up of rabid bremainiacs deciding the outcome of the Leave groups spending on Brexit , hardly impartial...oh well, life goes on whilst they look after themselves

[Sqad]

They should remain anonymous until proved guilty, but if proved guilty then they should be named.

[Old_Geezer]

Obviously they shouldn't.
(At least not until all found guilty are anonymous, in case of a miscarriage of justice.)

[ladybirder]

And you and I and Uncle Tom Cobbly shouldn't sqad? MPs only?

[Sqad]

ladybird.......you are putting words in my mouth.
Anonymity to those specific allegations should apply to everyone.

[sunny-dave]

**Any** charge where the accuser has anonymity should also confer anonymity on the accused - unless/until they are found guilty - at which point they should be named - regardless of their station in life.

[andy-hughes]

People in power never use that power to give themselves less of anything - and that includes protection.

Why should the be granted anonymity?

They shouldn;t obviously - but since the power is theirs, simple human nature takes over.

[Zacs-Master]

Remember folks, these are the same MPs that leave voters think are better running our country than the EU.

[douglas9401]

Bear in mind that they are honourable members.

HONOURABLE.

My chocolate starfish.

[sunny-dave]

ZM - so you think the corrupt, self-serving bureaucrats and politicos of Brussels have a completely open and transparent policy on these matters?

I think I will also invoke doogie's chocolate starfish.

[ which doesn't mean that I agree with what our lot of chancers and crooks have just done - just that the EU is even worse ]

[Zacs-Master]

Classic example of a non sequitur.

Because I criticise MPs, I support MEPs. Why would you think that?

[tonyav]

We also vote our chancers in or out, Dave.

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah, because there’s a whole bunch of trustworthy, altruistic people waiting in the wings to replace the 600 odd ones we now have. Stop deluding yourselves that the ability to vote MPs in or out is an advantage.