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Originally Posted by Kizzy
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With it being so close to an election,I think all parties will be more jittery whenever this kind of thing turns up.
MPs of all parties need to be really on their guard against reporters playing false and setting out to trap them.
Whether it is something simple like not knowing someones name or a particular area of some policy,or like these incidents where they set up false websites and pretend to be people they are not to try to ensnare MPs for any little thing.
I will never be convinced these reporters do this in the national interest or that they even care about the public/taxpayers really.
It is just to create scandal and gossip to put in their papers.
There are many MPs I dislike for lots of reasons but I really hate this kind of entrapment based on so much being false anyway from the people behind it too.
Jack Straw and Malcom Rifkind, love or hate them, have given decades of service to Parliament, they now have this all over the front pages.
When we do learn from the standards committee on this and if we learn from them that they did nothing wrong too, we will need a magnifying glass to find where the press list that they were wrong about them in those same papers,that is if we can even find the page it would be on..
MPs beware, 'never' trust reporters,it is an occupational hazard that they have to talk to them and be interviewed by them but they need to treat every question as suspicious from them and always be fully on their guard with this awful media we have in the UK at present.