UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them (westerndailypress.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: After decades of a gentleman's agreement to exempt them from surveillance, UK MPs have discovered that GCHQ now deems them as legitimate targets of surveillance. Consequently, members of the UK Parliament have called for an emergency debate on domestic surveillance. Shadow Commons leader Chris Bryant said: "To all intents and purposes, it means that the Wilson doctrine is dead. It is the cornerstone of the bill of rights and it is one of the most ancient freedoms of this country. In another era, before the existence of telephones and emails it meant that MPs and peers, even in war, had a right for their written correspondence not to be intercepted or be interfered with."

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Re:"One of the most ancient freedoms in this count

[Anonymous Coward]

The Bill of Rights 1689 (since amended both in written and unwritten law) is definitely British law.

Re:Not about the ruling class

[squiggleslash]

And lest anyone think this is paranoia, MI-5 did actually begin putting together a plot to overthrow the democratically elected government in the 1970s. It was only because Lord Mountbatten, their proposed replacement Prime Minister, refused to go along with it that the plan failed.