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

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according to mon bruv it's computers + terrorism

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:03 (fourteen years ago)

+ security services

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:04 (fourteen years ago)

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

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:05 (fourteen years ago)

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

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:06 (fourteen years ago)

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

Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:15 (fourteen years ago)

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,

James Mitchell, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:15 (fourteen years ago)

xp not surprising that Miliband is a comics fan.

Neil S, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

Dear Projectionist (blueski), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:35 (fourteen years ago)

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."

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:37 (fourteen years ago)

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

stet, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:40 (fourteen years ago)

It's The Sun Wot Dun It

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:41 (fourteen years ago)

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

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:43 (fourteen years ago)

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

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:46 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

ever feel like you're an ilmposter? (NickB), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:51 (fourteen years ago)

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

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:53 (fourteen years ago)

it is a stain upon our conscience

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:55 (fourteen years ago)

i think he's spotted a bug in there

ever feel like you're an ilmposter? (NickB), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 11:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

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

natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 11:26 (fourteen years ago)

BROOKS' NOTW DESCENT

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 11:28 (fourteen years ago)

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

ARAB SPRINGS BROOKS

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 11:30 (fourteen years ago)

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

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 11:35 (fourteen years ago)

YOU BURKA! ARAB BINS OUR REBEKAH

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 11:36 (fourteen years ago)

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."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article56710.ece

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.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article68663.ece

James Mitchell, Friday, 15 July 2011 11:44 (fourteen years ago)

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."

Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:15 (fourteen years ago)

lol seafarer

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:17 (fourteen years ago)

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

Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

w still s

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:23 (fourteen years ago)

... then sell the story afterwards

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:24 (fourteen years ago)

natch

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:28 (fourteen years ago)

has there ever been a more pre-Raphaelite icon of evil?

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:28 (fourteen years ago)

she is the prototypical ws of shame

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:29 (fourteen years ago)

last night the corporate death knell was sounded for Brooks after the second largest shareholder in News Corporation gave an extraordinary interview to BBC's Newsnight from his yacht in Cannes: "For sure she has to go, you bet she has to go," declared Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Alsaud.

YACHT'S ALL, FOLKS

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:42 (fourteen years ago)

BROOKS: CANNESED!

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:44 (fourteen years ago)

BROOKS OUTTIE AS SAUDI FLOUTS DADDY

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:45 (fourteen years ago)

that's not a dagger on her sleeve, it's a cut made by slivers of doubt

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

the sentence for the gilmour kid is excessive

same w/ the other nudnik who was smashed up tory hq or w/e

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

was

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

^^^The footballers who gangbanged the 12-year-old got two years....

Brooks could be wearing Comme and it would still look like she was dressed head to toe in Primark from three years ago. She's that sort of woman. /fashionistashade

natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:50 (fourteen years ago)

news int vermin must think they're clear if they're getting rid of a useful distraction so soon

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:51 (fourteen years ago)

16 months for throwing a bin and jumping on a car does, yes, seem just a tad much

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

this only got big cuz of DEAD CHILDREN, i'm not sure computer hacking will atract nearly the same vitriol

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

8 months in jail for Gilmour is fucking disgusting, half the student population of the country shd be shitting themselves tonight.

that said I cdn't possibly have been so mobile on an acid and valium cocktail

dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)

i think that's probably true at least as far as public opinion is concerned, but there's scope for much more serious criminal offences the the kind of computer hacking rumoured xp

caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

It's 16 months (yeah yeah I know he'll be out in 8). Can Gilmour appeal? OTOH he threw a wheelie bin at CHARLES AND CAMILLA OH NOES. xp

natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

PennyRed Laurie Penny
If we're going to make an example of those who defile war memorials, shall we start with the politicians destroying the welfare state?
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Sometimes I wonder how anyone over 25 takes Laurie Penny seriously.[NB: the cenotaph incident wasn't what he was jailed for]

More broadly though, that jail sentence is plainly OTT.

Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:56 (fourteen years ago)

16 months? Fuck, GARY Gilmore only did 4 months in prison.

ever feel like you're an ilmposter? (NickB), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:56 (fourteen years ago)

I guess he he was shot by firing squad at the end of it though, so fair play.

ever feel like you're an ilmposter? (NickB), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:56 (fourteen years ago)

i think that's probably true at least as far as public opinion is concerned, but there's scope for much more serious criminal offences the the kind of computer hacking rumoured xp

― caek, Friday, July 15, 2011 1:55 PM (2 minutes ago)

hopefully

nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)


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