What’s Your MPs Address?
If they get their way, we’re not allowed to be told. Because we might be dangerous.
MPs are to vote on whether their addresses should be published with a detailed breakdown of their expenses every quarter. This is being objected to on the grounds that it would needlessly expose MPs to the risk of being targeted by extremists or individuals with a grudge against the government - and that it breaches their privacy.
Surely the best answer to this is that the address of any house that MPs claim expenses to pay the mortgage for should be published. That way, MPs have a clear choice - take our money to pay your mortgage and we get to know your address. Don’t take our money to pay your mortgage and you can keep your address secret.
The justification for keeping them secret is has as many holes as a colander. And any backbench MP who agrees with it has a massive overestimation of their own importance.
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I think you are under estimating just how sneaky these people are - if you say the addresses of any home they claim to pay the mortgage on has to be published they’ll plonk it in a trust and chrarge rent instead.
Personally I’d clear out Wormwood Scrubs and put them all up there and only let them out to attend parliament. That way they might steal less money from the working man.
Any address they claim taxpayer’s money for - be it owned, rented or whatever - should be published.
Excellent idea!