MPs Stalking Concerns

UK MPs are becoming increasingly concerned about the threat of ‘stalking’. As the motion before the Houses of Parliament says:

MPs should not be subjected to excessive harassment and scrutiny by the general populace as they go about their vital business of helping themselves… serving the country. Ordinary members of the public should realise that once they have done their public duty of voting someone into the House of Commons then that is where all involvement with their elected MP should end – until the next election. MPs should not be harassed and stalked by constituents demanding that they ‘do something’, especially when such an act would run counter to narrow party benefit or confer no short term political advantage over opposing parties.

MPs are also concerned that some ’stalkers’ have taken an unhealthy interest in the affairs – sexual, business or otherwise – of MPS. Some stalkers recently even started looking into the very private and confidential area of MP’s expenses, much to the detriment of some MPs. Some MPs were forced to give up their seats because of this stalking of their expense accounts and now have to survive on a handful of lucrative media appearances a year.

As one MP claimed:

Despite what some may think, being a MP is a legitimate activity, if not quite honest and noble…. Can I have my appearance fee in cash, please?

Others are concerned that this constant stalking of MPs will force them to take their activities undercover, or even – in some extreme cases – give up the well-paid luxury of being a Member of Parliament altogether. As one Political commentator said:

Once people become politicians, there is often no help… or cure for them. They have to spend the rest of their lives wandering around, sometimes all over the world looking for conferences and speech-making opportunities in order to make ends meet. Some even have to sat up Foundations to keep themselves in the splendour their deluded minds thing is their right. At the other end of the scale, though, some people through no fault of their own sometimes discover that they are Liberal Democrats. How can some one like that ever return to the real world if they are hounded out of politics by some political stalker? Sometimes it seems it would be kinder just to have them put out of our misery.