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

Miliband says Cameron has made an important admission. If Ed Llewellyn, Cameron's chief of staff, did not pass the information about Jonathan Rees on to Cameron, will be be disciplined?

Cameron says that he could ask questions about Tom Baldwin, the former Times journalist whose conduct has been questioned by Lord Ashcroft. But the public don't want politicians who focus on these matters [...] The public want politicians to focus on the police and the media.

i just cannot understand how he is getting away w/this bullshit it is egregious. as if 'we don't need to interrogate that any further' isn't what this whole thing is about now.

That's not going to work. The meeting where Coulson's transgressions were raised was between Ian Katz and the Llewellyn guy. The question to be asking is why Cameron never raised it with Rusbridger.

well, it seems he's shooting for i was totally insulated; had no cause beyond a tepid q&a on phone-hacking to query coulson's appointment because no warnings to the contrary reached him. part of rusbridger's original claim was that he & many others at fleet street felt compelled to talk to the tories about this - refuting the efficacy of individual lines of contact just seems insane.

eg why would cameron raise it w/rusbridger, in light of the clear skies presented by the possibility of hiring ex-notw editor coulson

So obvious that Little Lord Cameron is just not used to being asked to explain his actions, it's almost like he can't understand why anyone would demand him such a thing of him

Also why should I take notice of any giving me advice?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/11/article-2013310-0CF697B600000578-434_634x436.jpg

the pictures taken by the photographers you see through the window depict the other passenger just screaming. just screaming.

lolvom

There's a lot of photos recently of Uncle Rupert with his personal trainer recently.

Maybe Wendi Deng can comment on the current state of affairs in the Murdoch empire etc.

Let me guess. Female? Blonde? Attractive? Not 80 years old?

Just missed out on a personal trainer job with Colonel Gadaffi?

Labour's David Winnick, a member of the home affairs committee, says he was surprised that the police were having dinner with News of the World when they were investigating it. Cameron says he agrees. He says he watched some of the home affairs committee hearing yesterday and that he found it striking.

uhhhh

Female? Blonde? Attractive? Not 80 years old?

yes, no, slightly, no

It's been over a year. You guys should really start a new thread with a different thread title that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out.

Don't know how you define blonde then? Unless you know her even better than her employer does (honest). (xp)

shitty uk politics 2011 -> 2095 LONG LIVE CLEGGERON

although it kinda seems hilarious to think of the lib dems getting 'top-line billing' in a description of the govt at this point. maybe inclusion in an ilx thread title could be an achievement, like the excellent work they've been doing on recycling trumpeted on local election flyers.

xxp this coming from the guy who brought us "have you ever distributed an erotic photograph via sexual text messaging?"

It's been over a year. You guys should really start a new thread with a different thread title that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out.

― kkvgz, 2011年7月13日 星期三 下午10:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

THIS

"have you ever distributed an erotic photograph via sexual text messaging?"

mod req pls merge threads

Was going to hack all yr phones, now soooo glad I didn't

the photos & freezeframes of ed are always just so bad. like you'd think they'd been selectively chosen by the murdoch press, like gordon on the front of today's sun, but they're not. there's a video still on the guardian blog right now that'd make you think he was about to leap over tables and collar DC.

DEM not gonna merge dis erotic photograph : Rolling UK politics in the short-lived sexual text messaging era

Guardian sez bid withdrawn.

i'm surprised The Sun didn't just photoshop horns onto that photo of Brown + halo of flames

even by the standards of the Sun, those seemed low blows. Basically "lol Brown RONG u suck, we may have splashed news of your sick child all over our rag, but we didn't hack your phone", as if that makes it all okay.

Also, the current "Yeah, we said we were a relation of xxx and they Gave us all the bank accounts" seems perfectly alright as well.

So NI has withdrawn its bid for BSkyB

xposts

Ed, how is America treating this (outside places like Gawker/NYT)?

All I know is it made it onto the Today show (seen in the diner at breakfast time), not really paid attention to other newsmedia outside my leftie bubble.

So, presumably, vote is now off?

MPs should vote to allow the bid to take place, just to piss off the Murdoch family

Vote is now off, yes.

damn shame: http://www.foxnewsuk.com/

where did this idea come from? they had to give up Sky News to get the BSkyB deal thru in the first place?

yeah but now they CAN have a fox news in their non-monopolised satelite television

except for the neutrality stuff. i thought we could already get American Fox News tbh. it'll never work over here, imagine anybody sober tuning in to Toby Young's Grind the Poor.

Unfortunately know too many people who would lap up that shit.

i mean they wouldn't go for any of that pansy crying shit glenn beck stuff but they'd enjoy edl news all the same

it'll never work over here, imagine anybody sober tuning in to Toby Young's Grind the Poor.

heh you've never heard LBC then

It's been over a year. You guys should really start a new thread with a different thread title that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out.

― kkvgz, 2011年7月13日 星期三 下午10:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

nah go ahead and claw

"Jitters Spread To US":
(url)http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-newscorp-brand-idUSTRE76C7HP20110713(/url)

Seems unlikely Justice Dept will actually go after James Murdoch, despite prev mention of his allegedly possible/possibly alleged violation of US law against improper international business dealings. They're otherwise engaged: for instance, gearing up threats vs medical marijuana (legal in several states, but that's even more of a pisser).

sorry I messed up that link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-newscorp-brand-idUSTRE76C7HP20110713

Anyone else see the Evening Standard last night called phone hacking scandal Britain - End Of Season Finale? Do Evening Standard hacks read ILX or did Matt DC get that from somewhere else?

Of all ES writers, I'm sure Richard Godwin is the most likely to rip off comments from ILX.

I think it got out there thru twitter

ok can i ask why did Private Eye call NotW News of the Screws instead of the much better Screws of the World?