GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules

Re:GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules by tajen on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:31AM (#10392012)

Heh, what if the PM itself is acting against the interest of the nation! We need to know! Maybe the GCHQ is saving us from rogue actors at the top level! Didn't see that coming?

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Re:GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules by pjc50 on Thursday October 15, 2015 @05:54AM (#10392234)

rogue actors at the top level

Like that time when the King was a Nazi spy. That was awkward. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v10/n16/paul-foot/the-great-times-they-... . The position of the Sinn Fein MPs is awkward as well.

Peter Hain complained about the security forces holding a file on him due to anti-apartheit campaigning: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/special...

And now we have Jeremy Corbyn being openly denounced as a "threat to national security". This has got Russia Today laughing at us, pointing out that we'd be condemning the same language if used by a regime we didn't like.

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Re:GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules by ttctciyf on Thursday October 15, 2015 @05:25AM (#10392142)

That already happened a while ago (though MI5, not GCHQ), according to this guy[1] and several other "theorists" (viz. [2])

MI5 themselves beg to differ[3] (though they don't address Wallace's allegations directly, it seems.)

And the whole idea, with a fictional PM, was made into a novel by eminently monitorable ex-MP Chris Mullin[4] and then a miniseries.

  1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace
  2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theories
  3: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/who-we-are/mi5-history/the-cold-war/the-wilson-plot.html
  4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_British_Coup

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