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

Watching Newsnight, it's odd to find that I still think Steve Coogan is more of a prick than any of the actual villains of this whole thing.

Apart from the PIs who were charged with putting an axe in that other PI's head but whose trial recently collapsed, obv.

what is this fuckery on newsnight

c'mon steve, punch the cunt

is mcmullan drunk

they've managed to find the worst possible representatives for both sides of the argument. painful.

I think he's always drunk. Still prefer him to Coogan though.

godwin's law? ugh

coogan is on newsnight?

doing partridge?

tbh prefer comedian who has seen better days to creepy news intl psychopath

Well, I saw about 3 mins, it wasn't Partridge, no.

loved emily saying "you seem like a tortured soul" <3

every cunt on the internet i can see is saying that coogan was great.

he kept saying "you just want to sell papers". not just an idiot, a boring idiot.

well considering his opponent was claiming to be the guardian of justice and public decency...

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mcmullan is unquestionably kinda lol but mostly sad. steve coogan's self-righteousness, and the standing ovation he seems to have received from every cock in media via twitter, is vomit-inducing though.

think mcmullan is a bit beyond 'lol but mostly sad' tbqh

mcmullan kinda sad but mostly despicable. TV should probably end its codependent relationship with him.

mcmullan feels like someone a twitter version of someone committing suicide by cop at this stage. i wasn't kidding when i said he seemed like a sociopath.

i don't disagree and

xpost i think we just saw that happen.

he also sounds like someone with an IQ of about 80 but an unusually good vocabulary

more of an addict's mentality imo - he's just doing whatever it takes for the appearance fee.

surely he doesn't get paid to be on newsnight?

not sure? i think you can, think it's seen more like paying for an op-ed than paying for a news story. don't really believe he'd do it otherwise, but i was thinking about how he seems to have been everywhere atm. i worry about his pub customers, dying of thirst.

you'd think not. there really does seem to be something disturbingly masochistic about each of his appearances, or maybe they're more akin to self-harming?

either way, he's nothing. steve coogan otoh speaks like he's crusading on behalf of the moral welfare of all of us, when all that really lies behind his outrage is his own phone being accessed and hacks appearing on his doorstep.

Isn't that enough?

tbh prefer comedian who has seen better days speaking like he's crusading on behalf of the moral welfare of all of us than a pox-ridden psychotic ex-hack attempting same

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maybe but "I hate you for the single crime you committed against me" is very different to "I hate your culture which has corrupted society".

or maybe i just hate steve coogan.

Contributors to Newsnight are paid around £150 (plus the taxi there and back).

I'd happily do it for that. I don't get to ride in taxis very often.

that should get him through til tomorrow afternoon

hope he doesn't say who he is cuz the cab driver hivemind is feeling ill disposed to news international atm going by the last couple of taxis i got

And the Sun cuts right to the chase again oh look what's that in the corner...

The alleged deletion has caused tension between News International and Scotland Yard, who are also angry over recent leaks. When the Murdoch company handed over evidence of their journalists' involvement in bribing police officers in late June, they wanted to make a public announcement, claiming credit for their assistance to police.

srsly

To be fair to the Sun, as rapt as I've been by all of this, I actually agree that it's time for the media to take its head out of its arse and start reporting on, y'know, news.

Not that that's the Sun's motivation, obv, but still.

no....

a massive conspiracy between the police, media, and politicians? yeah, we should probably move on to the real "news".

/icke

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Nice one, Joe. What I'm saying is there IS other stuff going on and that much as we might like to think otherwise, this is really just our equivalent of Cheryl Cole losing her job on X Factor USA. I agree that to an extent it IS news in a real sense, but it's also very very sexy and that's why this thread has nearly 1000 posts in two days.

this is really just our equivalent of Cheryl Cole losing her job on X Factor USA

not really, unless cheryl cole was operating an enormous criminal conspiracy to invade the private lives of thousands of people. and was appointed as the prime minister's director of communications. and bribed police officers. and obstructed murder investigations. really don't see how anyone could regard this as a sideshow.

aye, basically that's the post before yours is one of the worst i've read in a good while.

my language skills are also pretty suspect.

This story has not yet stopped unravelling.

Usually, something happens, then a lot of people pop up on News24 to give their opinions over and over, and the same thing gets repeated again.

Whereas, so much has happened, will happen, and no-one's quite sure what will happen next.

yeah, i'm moderately drunk and will admit to being prone to exaggeration but, while at risk of digging a bigger hole for myself, I'm not gonna distance myself entirely from that post. As I said, I DO think this is a big deal but it's not 9/11 and I just don't think it's warranted 100% of our attention and this scale of coverage for the last week and as long as it's going to go on for.