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

still plumping for a "kill NOTW before the police get their hands on our EXPLOSIVE SECRETS" angle

She says "I" 14 times in her resignation letter

so?

oh that they are all liars doesn't seem crazy? no, no it doesn't. i just wonder what they're lying about exactly.

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, July 15, 2011 10:41 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no i mean the nominal story seems plausible.

newscorp was clearly blindsided by how far this has gone. i think they were hoping it would blow over or that closing notw would do the job or something.

yeah they've never looked in control of this, every act feels like a flailing damage limitation effort

yeah, this matt wells thing is otm

A problem that News Corporation has faced throughout this saga is its inability to get on the front foot. Rebekah Brooks's resignation should have been accepted when she first apparently offered it, a week ago. James and Rupert Murdoch should have accepted the invitation to appear in front of the select committee when it was first issued, rather than have to be served a summons parliamentary officials. News Corp is still focused on sorting out a problem in the UK when the storm clouds are gathering around Les Hinton in the US. The FBI has just launched a criminal investigation and Democrat senators are champing at the bit.

Giles Coren: "I like Rebekah Brooks. She's a good person, and i'm sad that she's gone. And I don't give a flying fuck what Twitter thinks."

Twat

his sister's so lovely too

it's hard to believe that even as of last week they weren't grokking the depth of public outrage, but i after something blows over five, six times, you sort of expect it to blow over again

tbf i don't care what twitter thinks.

seems concievable to me that that extra week of Brooks' employment might have been used well behind closed doors, ie the Murdochs hashing out terms where she wouldn't be likely to spill beans/drop NI in it further still

might prove to be the opposite, granted

all this talk of a "desire to remain on the bridge" just makes me think of

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii293/Thee_DG/twok0031.jpg

nah i fully assume this is a tactical resignation and she's still in the inner circle

I'm paranoid so I'm convinced that Cameron + the Tories are in contact with News Corp and there's some manoeuvring to and fro going on here.

don't even think that's in doubt except the bargaining probably extends beyond Eton Dave even

still plumping for a "kill NOTW before the police get their hands on our EXPLOSIVE SECRETS" angle

there was that weird elliptical line credited to brooks, from her speech to staffers, that people would understand in a year why it was necessary. part of me is expecting the huge other story about hacking to break, but given that NI has tried to hack the sitting prime minister i can't really imagine what is bigger. NI killed pac? really?

i do think it's bizarre it's happening now, you would think it's become necessary in light of next week maybe.

for a guy that loves the public eye Blair's been v. quiet

I'm assuming it won't be hacking phones, it'll be computers and possibly break-ins (xp)

will she still appear before the select committee?

101 News Of The World Shocking Hacking Revelations Still To Come

Go on then, have a guess.

according to mon bruv it's computers + terrorism

+ security services

can't wait for the final montage of this end of season finale

although computer hacking is probably not such a good story for the_public

"It is right that Rebekah Brooks has resigned. No-one should exercise power without responsibility”, says Ed Miliband. Partially quoting Spiderman.

Funny how Giles Coren salutes the courage, strength and indefatigability of the woman who wrote the cheques that paid for his big house and put his kids through school,

xp not surprising that Miliband is a comics fan.

resigning on bbc/nuj strike day? what are the chances?!

Looks like Brooks won't be answering questions.. James' email to News Corp employees says:

"Next week, my father and I will appear before the CMS Select Committee and will speak to them directly about our determination to put things right."

basically just waiting to hear now that they also went out and committed their own acts of terrorism to create stories.

It's The Sun Wot Dun It

xp, they are going to be accused of helping terrorists by doing stuff that was, at best, reckless and illegal, at worst light treason.

I'm sure this is the longest period, within living memory, I've gone without seeing Kelvin MacKenzie on a television screen. Bliss.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/14754801_6229ff0619_o.jpg

^ did they ever get to the bottom of this leak?

don't really wanna think about leak in conjunction with saddam's tighty whities

it is a stain upon our conscience

i think he's spotted a bug in there

The Saudi who owns c. 10 per cent of NewsCorp apparently demanded Brooks should go, and so she went.

That'd make one hell of an all time great Daily Express headline.

Amazed that nobody's used SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY, RUPERT

BROOKS' NOTW DESCENT

The Saudi who owns c. 10 per cent of NewsCorp apparently demanded Brooks should go, and so she went.

ARAB SPRINGS BROOKS

would've thought the Sun wd go with something about Muslims oppressing our women

YOU BURKA! ARAB BINS OUR REBEKAH

Hmmmm:

In an email to officials, dole scrounger Bakri pleaded: “The current situation in Beirut left me without any choice but to appeal to you to grant me a visit visa to see my children for one month."

Now a Sun investigation can reveal Bakri, 48, told supporters to hand over money to his son as much as four months ago. In an internet exchange in June, Bakri was asked by a would-be follower how he could donate money to help back his brand of Islamic extremism.

booming prescott quote:

The former deputy prime minister said that, in her resignation letter, Brooks talked about not being able to remain "on the bridge". As a former seafarer, he found this strange, he said. "I would not like her on the bridge, if she did not know what was going on, where she was going or what direction it was."

lol seafarer

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/15/1310722949261/8-October-2002-Brooks-wit-016.jpg

lol i actually thought BROOKS WAS HOLDING A DAGGER in this pic, just casually, just holding a dagger
but it's her dress

w still s