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

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

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Murdoch Jr To Make announcement at 5 apparently.

aw yeah

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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!

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@sophyridge can u direct message me? cheers

Also:

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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

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

Here's hoping!

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**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

Just about to post that!

presumably the more canny staffers will sidestep the NDA issue by foregoing their redundancy while leveraging their insider story to get an equivalent payday from other press, thus having their cake and eating it

Roger Alton was fantastically butthurt about Mumsnet's twitter campaign on C4 news just now

Given Dan's mention of James Murdoch's trustifarian phase I'm amused by this:

Despite his occasionally prickly nature with reporters, friends and colleagues attest to a sharp, witty man with a love of business and sense of fun. This is partly shown by his office, a huge glass-fronted room with picture postcard views of the Thames which is guarded by a life-size model of Darth Vader. This has stayed with him since before his stint at Sky despite allowing every visiting journalist to mention the evil empire, dark forces and overlords as well as that tricky relationship between father and son. In New York, he kept a huge poster of chairman Mao on his wall just to confuse anyone wanting to talk politics and was happy to show off his tattoos and disregard for convention.

He is said to be a considerate if aloof boss, sending messages of congratulations to distant reporters. Yet he often appears tense and ill-at-ease, perhaps fitting for a man who refuses to sit at a desk. A huge standing desk takes centre-stage in an office that wouldn't look out of place in a Bond movie. As well as the size and the view, there are huge TV screens on one wall, typically showing Sky News, opposite another huge frosted or "telepresence" screen on the other, from which Murdoch can chat to chief executives from all over the world on videolink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgkfQ-ykL-U

7.41pm: Coulson has been released on police bail to return on a date in October, according to the Press Association.

i didn't realise it was chris bryant was the one who has rebekah brooks at the select committee whether she paid the police, and that's why the sun outed him. poor guy.

http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/JULY/08/08_rebekahgraphic_x.jpg

I didn't know Alex James made cheese, he never mentions it.

the most hilarious thing would be that if ofcom declared news corp not "fit and proper" not only could murdoch not buy the extra 61% of shares but it would have to sell the ones it currently owns already.

not so much on of the common people then.

*one

whoa no way would i have ever guessed a senior media exec might know some rich and/or famous people, thanks channel 4

Shouldn't there be a little picture of Ross Kemp in the corner looking sad and not linked to any of them?

Hmmm again:

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**UPDATE** "NOTW axing was planned as far back as November! possible sop to ease BSkyB deal!"This is info i'm getting from different sources

Says elsewhere that he and others will have a site launching tomorrow with more.

another American writes: I'm told that your libel laws are much more restrictive than ours. How does this affect UK version of tabloidism, among its producers and consumers? Also, wondering if Coulson as gateway between tabloid phone hacking and govt. might befit both? Re What If It Happened Here, I suddenly almost remember that our Govt already listens in on everybody anyway. President Bachman will no doubt remind us with her usual grace, should need ever arise (if Rupert hasn't quite acquired the NYTimes yet, for inst)(Rachel Whetstone of Google is in family tree also? Oh good)

Any guesses?

9.58pm: The Metropolitan Police has just announced that it has arrested a man in connection with Operation Elveden, the investigation into inappropriate payments to police.

The 63-year-old man was arrested at a residential address in Surrey at 8.22pm. He is the third person to have been arrested tonight in connection with the alleged corrupt payments probe

The Met said in a statement:

The Metropolitan Police Service has this evening [8 July 2011] arrested a member of the public in connection with allegations of corruption.

At 20:22 hrs officers from the MPS' Operation Weeting together with officers from Op Elveden arrested a man on suspicion of corruption allegations contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.

The man, aged 63, was arrested at a residential address in Surrey. A search is ongoing at this address.

The Operation Weeting team is conducting the new investigation into phone hacking.

Operation Elveden is the investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police. This investigation is being supervised by the IPCC.

searching 'news of the world born 1948' brought up sven-goran eriksson. so let's go with that.

Meantime, a detail towards the end:

After the final edition of the newspaper closes on Saturday, employees were informed that they will be allowed to keep their phones but must leave all other electronic equipment in the office, at the instructions, staff were told, of the police investigating phone hacking. They will not be allowed to return unsupervised. “The whole newsroom is basically going to be a crime scene,” the person present said. Police had also been behind the banning of external Web sites in the office Friday, to prevent leaks.