The House of Privacy...

The other day I switched over to BBC Parliament to see what goes on down the House of Lords.  They were discussing the highly important burning issue of election candidates addresses appearing on ballot papers.  This is the default situation if the candidates haven't opted out of the Public Version on the electoral register.  

If you have a postal vote like me and the forms physically lying about for a week or so you can use the addresses and Google images to check up on how the other half lives.  But unfortunately this fun pass time is now to be curtailed in the interests of national security and replaced with an opt-in rather than an opt-out system.  Shame.

I particularly enjoyed members of the Lords protesting that they should not have their Castles googled like they ever appear on a ballot paper. 

Oh well, more fun legislated away by the self serving system....