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

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

... then sell the story afterwards

natch

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

she is the prototypical ws of shame

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

BROOKS: CANNESED!

BROOKS OUTTIE AS SAUDI FLOUTS DADDY

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

the sentence for the gilmour kid is excessive

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

was

^^^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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

^^^awaiting more of caek's insidery stuff tbh, JUICY.

DL, it's the lefty version of WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN. OTOH the comparisons with sexual harassment sentences are on point.

i think it's probably time to lock this, start a new uk normal politics thread, and spin off a newscorp/uk end of season finale/brooks did 9/11 thread

I wouldn't want someone jailed if they lobbed a bin at my car whilst I was driving it, but I'd definitely want some sort of punishment that would be more than a mild inconvenience to them

xpost -- Start up the new threads and I'll lock this one down.

any objections?

just want to continue the DEM/CON theme pour irriter les feebs

suzy - Exactly. Shame one of the most widely-read left-wing writers in Britain is such a sucker for glib, student-bar non-analogies.

Idea to start two new threads strongly seconded BTW

ok gimme a sec

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

The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

gonna miss this thread. i had a lovely time.

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