Why are they really protesting?

What has annoyed the MPs over the bugging of an MP's conversation with a prisoner?

Are they concerned about the right so of the prisoner? I doubt it, he is being considered for deportation to the US, he has "form", and apart from his own MP who visited him I doubt if many MPs are very concerned about his rights.

No, I suggest that the agitation is that the police, with politicians again knowing nothing, ("Not me Guv, I didn't know anything about it!" - the well rehearsed New Labour line when caught out breaking their own rules,) had the bare faced effrontery to actually record an MP.

These "Ubermench" MPs, honorable and not needing to be checked, are in this time of surveillance not to be subject to the thousands of interceptions and buggings to which mere mortals are submitted! Why not? At least one MP in the past 50 years has been detected as working for the Russians. They are venal! Who knows what other causes they serve? Why should they be exempt from surveillance?

We accept that Government might become difficult if phone lines between No 10 and the various departments were bugged (and why not e-mails also?). But, bearing in mind that they attempt too much and do it badly, perhaps they should be bugged.

Politicians are regarded as dishonest by many people, perhaps ranked above estate agents but not above many more groups. Let them be subject to surveillance - they don't have the same immunity as priests, doctors and lawyers.