Lembit rehearses the usual arguments that MPs use recess to work in their constituencies and then concludes that politicians need protection from people like Mr. Babbs. In particular he advocates a privacy law for MPs:

Despite the dangers of censorship which accompany such a measure, this may be the only way we preserve enough private space in the parliamentary – and public – world to enable the preservation of some semblance of a hinterland, away from the lurid gaze of websites masquerading as organisations.

His justification for this stance is that there is a need to protect the families and loved ones of MPs from unnecessary intrusion into their private space.

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