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

See, Yesterday we were all expecting "actions", but nothing really happened.

Until the newspaper closedown.

i think that he's explicitly voiced opposition to murdoch in the commons

Which no Labour leader has done since Neil Kinnock btw... according to Andrew Neil on This Week

kirsty walk pursued this last night, paralysing ed, asking why some deputy had sent out a gross e-mail to lab back benchers asking that they refrain from going to town on NI, and associating bskyb w/hacking, why ed hadn't been quicker or cornered murdoch at a party, etc.

yes, and i think any sort of politician better than "OK" could have turned these questions around quite easily instead of looking like a shifty-faced weasel caught out in a lie.

a shifty-faced weasel caught out in a lie

In OED under 'politician'

arggh you know what was killing me was that he kept repeating that he'd "learned lessons" and i just wanted k. wark to say "WHAT LESSONS DID YOU LEARN"

He said we've all learned lessons

well that can't be denied.

What lessons have we all learned?

I didn't see this, so maybe my opinion would be different if I had, given that Kirsty Wark is just a slighly upmarket Lorraine Kelly i'd be worried if she gave any interviewee any problems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQQdSwFgSec

the question about the party e.mili was at with rupert murdoch a week ago was an ice cold killer and he had zero response for it

word

Clive Goodman re-arrested. He's been a very bad boy.

Ofcom to rule on News Corp's 'fitness' to own BSkyB. I'm 'minded' to flick the V's and go nah-nah-nah in Jeremy Hunt's face.

lol pcc

it's not the crime that gets you, it's the cover up

you guys shouldve made hugh grant the labour leader

It could happen.

"The 2017 bilateral agreement between PM Grant and President Franken heralds in a new era of actorly experience."

was hugh grant one of blair's babes? i can't remember now.

http://keeptonyblairforpm.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/blairsbabeswithtb_may1997.jpg?w=416&h=200

Dunno, check the pic!

I find the article joe linked of deep interest because it suggests why this all came about when it did over the past week. I've been wondering this whole time exactly why Murdoch and co. were assiduously interested in shooting themselves in the foot several times over and it sounds like they had this one general plan that they assumed would naturally play out as they wanted it. Which seems pretty stupid.

Meanwhile:

2.31pm: BBC Radio Five Live is reporting that the offices of the Daily Star have been raided by police.
We have no confirmation of this at present.

Would much rather those E*L supporting bastards at the Star went down than the NotW.

if you only count people who can read, doesn't the star have like 15 readers?

the star won't be caught up in this, richard desmond can't pay journalists let alone police. it's just because goodman ended up on their sunday edition.

prescott makes a good point: email deletion took place in january this year - must relate to current NI execs, so that will really fuck up the bskyb bid.

And leave it to NMA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGegvzU9S8U

Hmm. Outlier or tipping point?:

In a statement today, Renault said: "As a result of the seriousness of the continued allegations of phone hacking by News of the World, Renault is reviewing its media advertising plans.

"Pending the formal investigations, we currently have no advertising planned in any News International press titles in the immediate future."

Meantime, great:

Borkowski added that the newspaper’s closure will start one of the ‘biggest changes in the media ever’.

‘This is bigger that the Murdoch moving his staff out of Fleet Street. If this can happen, who knows what else can happen? I think there’s a tsunami coming – you’re going to see a flood of journalists into PR for one thing.

‘It puts a huge amount of power into the hands of PR people. It’s a massive opportunity for PR to get it wrong or get it right. It’s a seismic shift of power to the PR world.’

This is the story that just keeps giving

xp PR people think everything is a victory for PR.

Not sure how victorious ex-PR man David Cameron is feeling right now

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

― caek, Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

xpost -- he's probably thinking that's a better career choice for him now.

Meantime Brooks supposedly meeting with News of the World staff in half an hour for tea and crumpets or whatever it is they do when they talk about how they're out of the job in two days except for her.

and the notw staff have been drinking all afternoon since they got locked out of the email system.

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

― caek, Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm!

Launching a recruitment drive for the Sun on Sunday perhaps? (xp)

"On a more positive note the good news is I’ve been promoted - so every cloud… you’re still thinking about the bad news aren’t you?"

xxpost -- ah right, so she can delete that as well.

locked out of the email system

shred shred shred magnetize magnetize

Follow this, meanwhile:

https://twitter.com/ExNOTWJourno

shred shred shred magnetize magnetize

Based on the Guardian story wouldn't that hurt more than help anyway? Seemed like it was a pretty public indication that:

*) the police know full well who the exec in question is

*) they don't care about that circulating

"Oh and in response to that you did that as well. Good job."

Ofcom's full letter

Facebook note from ExNOTWJourno

Hmm:

ExNOTWJourno
Vibe I'm getting is she'll resign. More as I get it.

lol at the barrage of unsympathetic comments

Via the Guardian liveblog, where I'm obviously getting a lot of this:

Former Met police chief Brian Paddick has told my colleague Vikram Dodd it is now "blindingly obvious" that police would want to arrest and interview Rebekah Brooks, the controversial boss of News International.

Paddick said: "If Andy Coulson has been arrested, it is inevitable that Rebekah Brooks will get an invitation from the police that she can not refuse."

Brooks was editor of the News of the World at the time Milly Dowler's phone was hacked, which she denies any knowledge of. She also told a committee in MPs that police had been paid for stories, but later said she had no knowledge of specific incidents.

Paddick added: "I can't understand how a thorough police investigation that would arrest Andy Coulson and not arrest Rebekah Brooks." The former Met deputy assistant commissioner believes his phone was hacked into by the News of the World.

fyi ned, what paddick says is not worthless, but he's not a totally disinterested (or these days even particularly well informed) police source.

So I figured (given both his status and the last part of the quote there).

yup