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

"I was off-duty at the time, m'lud."

He describes the question as "a real attack on my integrity".

Giving the game away there, I'd say

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this was hilarious, the mock indignity after __ minutes of geezerishness. he didn't take money as a police officer. he just became a news international columnist immediately after losing his job [for fiddling his expenses?]

blackwood was the year above me at st anne's. i did not vote for her in 2010. that is all i wish to say.

Labour MP Tom Watson says Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch and his son James have been summoned to appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee but he believes they may not all turn up.

"There's lot of arcane procedure as to this but we will be sitting next Tuesday and we expect them to be there. I suspect that some of them might be too cowardly to turn up but that's up to them to decide."

this guy

he's practising his chicken dance as we type

Tom was Pres of the Students Union when I was at Hull. Lovely bloke. We was at slightly different wings of the party politics-wise tho.

Murdoch will reply to Watson's chicken strut with The Wiz dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRf_A07Elyw

I thought you'd mentioned that before but I wasn't sure, kept wanting to refer to him NV's mate (xp)

Patricia Clegg in Essex emails: "I was astounded at the behaviour of the Select Committee - the bullying of witnesses was beyond belief. When phone hacking first emerged, there was a high level of terrorist threat and I would have wanted the Met to concentrate on that rather than pursuing phone hacking - unless it related directly to terrorism. It is very distressing for people such as the Dowler family and for Gordon Brown having his son's illness publicised, but if it is a choice between this and preventing terrorist atrocities, then the Met have to concentrate on the latter."

What is it with these Cleggs?

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/huddexaminer/dec2008/9/1/440058C5-F3C5-37E3-E2C9868EE13DEC33.jpg

'appen we're a bunch o' Tory twats, lad

Ian Williams in Newmarket emails: Keith Vaz is displaying an extraordinary level of arrogance and lack of respect towards senior police officers. I can only conclude MPs feel they are entitled to display righteousness (in front of the cameras) given that it was the press and police that exposed their near criminal behaviour with regard to expenses. The behaviour of this committee can best be described as churlish!

Don't remember the police doing much exposing of expenses.

can't believe elected officials failed to show respect to devious, corrupt cops

If cops can't keep the general public in line, it'll have to be the press...

The gov will be supporting the Labour motion calling for Rupe to back off BSkyB. Hunt will be abstaining, because he is a Hunt.

Ah, nice, they all in agree.

supporting the labour motion's wording? which is "withdraw" (not "postpone" or whatever)

s'what the Beeb just said

LOL Tories

including "withdraw"...altho i guess that could read as "withdraw, for now...*wink wink*...until things settle down like". form of words is reasonably negligible at the mo i'd've thought

Just repeated on the news headlines, unambiguously they will support the motion.

can EMil tack a "halt all privatizations" clause onto this motion now for a lol?

Wow.

As I say, it's not unusual for a motion to get all-party support, but for one raised by the oppo party to get that kinda support..

What did the Tories say, "yeah... fair play to yez, let's do it!"

nationalise BSkyB

can EMil tack a "halt all privatizations" clause onto this motion now for a lol?

― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:07 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Only if he uses the English spelling!!

there are several threads about the s/z issue, but my main thinking is that spelling "correctly" is the hobgoblin of small minds

meanwhile, I listened to a lot of Yates' testimony to the committee this morning and i still don't understand why he thought it was cool to drop the original hacking investigation after 8 hours' perusal of an 11,000 page document.

http://www.satcha.co.uk/image/cache/data/LS00130%20-%20Croc%20Studded%20Satchel%20Handbag%20With%20Buckle%20Detail-38x38.jpg

A bit too much like "destroying the earth on which we stand", it seems.

nationalise BSkyB

― Genre Fiction › Men's Adventure (schlump), Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

next to the FA, one of the few truly great national institutions we have left

the 'z' is correct

meanwhile, I listened to a lot of Yates' testimony to the committee this morning and i still don't understand why he thought it was cool to drop the original hacking investigation after 8 hours' perusal of an 11,000 page document.

― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:11 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark

same reason hip-hop sucked in '96 #itsthemoney

Oxford University Press insists on "privatize"

I'll get me coat/ bung/ synidcated column in a national newspaper (xp)

i'm just wondering if anybody else noticed he didn't answer the question, several times

and like maybe he should be pressed more closely on the issue

rly tho i thought it was that there was private life dirt on him and that made him shut up? iirc the evening standard reported that?

yeah this is an unusual motion. totally pointless in a strictly legal sense, kind of like an oxford union motion.

nobody has suggested that he's taken money, certainly.

i'm enjoying the Met's "the people we were investigating didn't tell us the truth so what could we do?" tack

Well,if it works for Cameron wrt Coulson...

i'm enjoying the Met's "the people we were investigating didn't tell us the truth so what could we do?" tack

Suggestitng News International exectutives are less trustworthy than yer average criminal perhaps?

i dunno, is the usual interview tactic "Did you rob that bank?" "No" "Oh okay then off you go"?

Hunt will be abstaining

This is kinda 8-}. I say again, LOL Tories.

get a room guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuG_94nZi8

What hap? (Can't play youtube out loud, I lipread her saying "no" and him "why not?"

You couldn't lipread him saying "Fuck off and die"?

Oh, I got "Kartoffelsalat"...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013711/Miriam-Clegg-Nick-kills-school-run.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Clegg must be our greatest living saint. I bet there are no parents in low-paid public sector jobs that they're in perpetual fear of losing who could do this.

Brooks and Rupert to go in front of CMS next tuesday.

cms?

culture, media and sport committee.