Sandy 4 St Albans » pageant road http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog Sandy Walkington is the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for St Albans Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:14:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Why don’t we just use the “c” word? http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2009/06/22/why-dont-we-just-use-the-c-word/ http://sandy4stalbans.org/blog/2009/06/22/why-dont-we-just-use-the-c-word/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:23:27 +0000 sandy http://sandy4stalbans.org/wordpress/?p=677 “Redaction” is a slippery word. I associate it with Bush and Blair and other dodgy neologisms such as “special rendition” for state sponsored kidnapping.

Redaction is just a fancy word for censorship and we should say so. Looking at MP receipts on-line and seeing all those blacked-out details is genuinely shocking. This is public money being spent and apart from a very few exceptions I just don’t buy it that MPs’ security is being compromised by making their home addresses public.

I live at 6 Hobbs Hill in Welwyn. Previously I lived at various addresses in St Albans: 4 Dorcas Court, 42 Pageant Road, 4 Watling Street.

The newspapers tell me that Mrs Main’s taxpayer-funded second home in St Albans is at Samuel Square – coincidentally at the top end of Pageant Road only a few yards from where I was living when I last stood for election in St Albans.

I don’t think telling the unredacted truth about where we live is going to cause the sky to fall in.

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