DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

Guys, there's a "Sunday Sun" already, just like there was/is a "Sunday Mail" as well.

Eh?

xp was gonna say, it won't fly in the north east for a start http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/

When the Daily Mail started their sunday edition, they couldn't call it The SundayMail, as there was an (irish based) paper of that name already.

and a Scottish one.

What about calling it Tomb Raider?

"World of the News"

yes and the Sunday Sun exists but it is a regional paper covering Newcastle and the north east.

www.sundaysun.co.uk

SO THEY CAN'T USE THAT NAME!!!

(ahem)

They can just call it the Sun on Sunday or even just The Sun.

Until the first Sun phone-hacking story comes out, as is surely inevitable now.

this is turning into one of those great moments when every apologist who rolls up on the media can be safely filed in the "cunt 4 lyfe" drawer

"The Sun on Sunday" is what I'd be betting on.

The paper was lopped before it got any closer to implicating the Prime Minister.

I like how the Beeb is already playing the tiny violin for the innocent Stormtroopers who weren't part of the SS heirarchy and couldn't have known they were working for scumbags.

Dude don't be a dick - most people in the world work for scumbags, doesn't mean that they deserve to be laid off so aforementioned scumbags can flaunt a massive PR gesture and save themselves from their own fuckup.

gonna second NV here

NI had better take great care of them, otherwise they've just created a massive crew of professional dirt-diggers who a) know where all the skeletons are buried and b) loathe Rebekah Brooks.

good grief

Well, they will all be working on the 'lol Charity' edition, then get new contracts for the SoS.

Ah, Sun On Sunday, SOS! ha.

a massive crew of professional dirt-diggers who a) know where all the skeletons are buried

pretty sure that anyone who knows where any skeletons are buried won't be losing their job any time soon

NOTW has (had!) a pretty young staff, i believe. also, y'know, not just hacks, even if you think all of them deserve to go - NOTW employed everyone from admin staff to cleaners...

"and as part of the paper's closure we will be distributing great big magnets that will be placed next to employee hard drives"

Phone hackers too xp

NI was already merging all the back-office crew etc anyway.

I've got friends who work at the NoTW, and yeah, this is shit news for them but at the same time they were pretty frank about the deal they struck working for it.

and Police.. (xp)

So, what happens now with ACoulson?

Jemima Kiss just tweeted saying he was to be arrested today.

oops Jemima Khan

Don't have much sympathy for the paper's news hacks frankly, I get more sympathetic the lower down the ladder you go. Especially when you consider the people responsible could still walk away scot-free.

Coulson looks completely fucked whatever happens, for perjury if nothing else.

rofllin' (xp)

is it perjury at a select committee? or did coulson testify in court?

Rebekah Brooks apparently told staff "The Guardian newspaper were out to get us, and they got us" at a 'tearful meeting'. OK now it's time for the tiny violin.

http://twitter.com/#!/LiterallyJamie/status/89002168211869696

Lord Prescott: Closure of News of the World is a 'management stunt'; 'no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun'

Nooh, man! It's ach forget it..

yeah there are people at the bottom end of the ladder who are just happy to have a job and yeah it wd be dickish to gloat at them, but i do think if you have any choice then who you work for is a decision you shd consider the ethical implications of

Caek:

(at the Sheridan trial) Mr Coulson, who was then Prime Minister David Cameron's director of communications, gave evidence that he had no knowledge of illegal activities, including payments to police officers.

sunonsunday.co.uk was reg'd on July 5.

There you go, five pounds plz.

Interesting?

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk

Shit, xpost

SUPER SOARAWAY SUN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK - COMING SOON

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"Sun On Sunday's music is a kind of Rock deeply distorted and corrupted by Blues and Country, with great influences from Funk too, a sound that anyway remains always original."

www.sunonsunday.com

thanks nick

and am i right in thinking it's not perjury in front of a select committee?

no i don't think they're sworn in as they are in congressional hearings in the States

isn't there some ye ancient law about mis-statements to parliament?

might only apply to MPs

there's all that stuff about it not being on to use the word "liar"

but that's definitely only mps

yeah there are people at the bottom end of the ladder who are just happy to have a job and yeah it wd be dickish to gloat at them, but i do think if you have any choice then who you work for is a decision you shd consider the ethical implications of

Yeah I'd agree with that I think. I certainly don't think the journalists are exactly blameless.

Meanwhile, a film critic speaks

can i just say, i'm having a lovely time!

Doubtless!

Trying to think of another brand that became so toxic that it had to be shut down so quickly. Even Fanta survived and that was Hitler's soft drink.