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

@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

Hahah I was just about to post that.

Funny how Ned Raggett posts the same tweets that I was going to

all about the scoop even now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dqYc6-4as

Lord, get that away from me.

oh bj

Clearing the air!

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
@
@sophyridge can u direct message me? cheers

Also:

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
1 (ex)colleague devastated.worse than yest. gutted. this was planned from months ago, we're now nearly 99% sure of that. A write off...

(Which also fits in with the Guardian/e-mail story narrative, if so.)

for amurikans finally paying attention to uk politics, boris is basically a living version of a whiney impression of lj

oy

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
still no official word re:Murdoch Jr Announcement.Originally@5 but there's defo something going on.Last min negotiations?

Here's hoping!

ExNOTWJourno ExNOTWJournalist
**Rumour Alert** Daddy M very angry at Cameron re:Inquiry

5.03pm: Poor old PCC. Everyone – including David Cameron and Ed Miliband – seems to think they aren't fit for purpose. But they're still alive and kicking, and have put out a statement to prove it.

"The independent public members (listed below) of the Press Complaints Commission have today made clear that its work will continue," it reads.

"It is important for everyone to recognise that the Government cannot simply order the replacement of the PCC, because it is an independent organisation."

well Cameron was probably very angry at Daddy M for making Coulson the fall guy

xpost

0:28 in the Boris vid is classic. There's just nothing there at all. Everything has come to a halt. And then a spark! Some vague thought! And we're back...

strange times when even a sky news journo seems a bit lol at the whole business

if the deal goes through then they won't be working for murdoch any more

Ha, Sophy Ridge's Twitter bio - "Sky News Political Correspondent, former tabloid hack."

Former News of the World hack, she means obviously.

yeah she was the one on the telly just now being a bit lol

Everything's better now!

5.31pm: Rebekah Brooks is no longer in charge of the News International internal clean up committee – following a recommendation from James Murdoch and News Corp directors.

An official message sent to staff following her 4pm meeting reveals Will Lewis, Simon Greenberg and Jeff Palker – Brooks's lieutenants – will "report directly" to New York based Joel Klein on the clean-up.

The key paragraphs from Brooks's message to staff are below:

People have asked if it is right for me, as CEO of News International and as the Editor of the News of the World until January 2003, to oversee our efforts to assess allegations, address serious issues and prevent them from happening again. I'm determined that News International does this.

For the avoidance of any doubt, however, the News Corporation independent directors agree with James Murdoch's recommendation that the Management and Standards Committee, comprised of Will Lewis, Simon Greenberg and Jeff Palker, report directly to Joel Klein in New York. Joel is leading and directing the Company's overall handling of this matter. Many of you will know that Joel is a respected former Assistant Attorney General of the United States. Joel and Viet Dinh, an independent director, are giving oversight and keeping our parent Company's Board advised as well.

Haha, notw hacks secretly recorded Brooks http://www.businessinsider.com/rebekah-brooks-news-of-the-world-2011-7