British politicians exempt themselves from warrantless spying under the Snoopers Charter

[BZMacLachlan]

@anon82757353

Leaving aside the “exempting themselves” bit for a moment, I would much rather that a Prime Minister didn’t have the ability to deploy the awesome power of the surveillance state to ratfuck the democratic opposition. Because that’s been a thing in some countries at some times, and it sucks.

This bit is truly important. It’s easy to hate the unfairness of the self-exemption, but, in the long term, allowing spying on MPs will only cement the powers of the intelligence apparatus.