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

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:

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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

Not many disinterested parties left in this story... or in the British Isles for that matter!

in my local newsagent earlier there were many more copies of The Sun left compared to any other newspaper. not sure how typical that is, maybe they should've stuck to ignoring the story after all?

haha sure. just saying that paddick's predictions about what happens next are not much more useful than, e.g. prescott's.

that renault thing is significant

Let's hope so

https://twitter.com/sophyridge seems to have the best source in the meeting now

sophyridge sophyridge
Ouch, David Cameron says he would have accepted the resignation of Rebekah Brooks.

Um, RBrooks doesn't work for DCameron...(?)

Assuming this combined is an exchange in the meeting:

sophyridge sophyridge
Rebekah Brooks said that advertisers said the brand was "toxic" I'm hearing, and the decision "was not done lightly"

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
"it's not the brand that's toxic, love."

sophyridge sophyridge

Rebekah Brooks says she is staying on because she is a conductor for it all 2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

conductor OF it all more like

i wonder how their sources are getting this info out if phones are off

@sophyridge
sophyridge
Rebekah Brooks says the decision to close the NotW was taken because there was another two years plus ahead of trouble

xxp basically confirms gaunty's analysis upthread: she's a human shield for james murdoch.

So what happens if she gets arrested?

she's a human shield for james murdoch.

yeah this always made more sense than "what's she got on the murdochs"

i think they're banking on her not being arrested? that's an unwise calculation, but it's been unwise calculations all the way down.

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
she feel betrayed by the hackers. Betrayed

xpost -- yeah at this point that seems spectacularly ill-thought out.

sophyridge sophyridge
Rebekka Brookes has also paid tribute to the "talented and untainted" staff at NotW, think this was at the beginning

"You're all great! Now fuck off."

this sounds too good to be true

   With all the blagging, cash payments 
   and subterfuge involved, some of the
   stories coming out at the moment make
   phone hacking sound like it would be a
   very complicated and expensive operation.
   Well, imagine if NOTW execs were bright
   enough to have found a simpler solution. 
   As the self-appointed scourge of paedos
   and the promoters of Sarah's law, it was
   only natural that the News Of The World
   would be on hand to comfort the victims'
   families in many of the most horrific
   crimes of the last decade. And such was
   their apparent determination to rid the
   country of child sex offenders, it wouldn't
   have seemed too weird if a senior NOTW
   figure sympathetically handed over a
   mobile phone at no expense to the victim -
   so that they could all keep in touch. And
   then, of course, there would be no problem
   monitoring those phones, would there?
   If the rumours going around News 
   International about who the person
   handing out the phone was are anything
   more substantial than chatter from 
   understandably bitter ex-employees then
   we might see some action on this website
   before too long:
http://www.hasrebekahbrooksbeensackedyet.com/

Big Questions <<
       What people want to know this week
   Which politico might be feeling a bit
   nervy this week as old rumours which
   linked him VERY closely to the News
   International CEO are circulating
   around disgruntled hacks in Wapping?

got to be prescott

"talented and untainted"

read as untalented and tainted naturally

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
not everyone will get jobs.2 catergories:talented and untalented.Those who get jobs are being gagged.many not @ meeting are the 'untalented'

http://www.hastevezleftyet.com/

got to be prescott

you think? he's been pretty loud this week

...

Ah well, at least they are still carrying on regardless...

sophyridge

Rebekah says: you may be angry with me, I understand. But I'm angry at the people who did this and feel bitterly betrayed
2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

b-b-but that was yooooouuuuuuuu

allegedly, whatever

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
yes. untainted.i misread the text message.in any case, the tainted refer now to those not reemployed...its awful.absolutely awful.

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
Murdoch Jr To Make announcement at 5 apparently.

aw yeah

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
3 former colleagues to sell stories. Good on them!

Actually wouldn't it be great if Brooks was still meeting and talking and meanwhile Murdoch's all "Yeah we fired her."

I don't know if I can say this enough: LOL

LOL Guardian:

4.45pm: Nick Clegg is in Paris doing his anguished face.

<3 guardian

i was in the same room as a. rusbridger for the first time yesterday btw. he speaks very softly

sophyridge

Funny how @exnotwjourno only has exactly same quotes that I do from Rebekah meeting ;-)
2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

OOH TWITTER BEEF BETWEEN NEWS INT SOURCES