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

I don't see how it could sink Cameron, it's not any worse than anything we already know about these people but fuck it's an unpleasant image.

OH SHIT I JUST FIGURED IT OUT and really what would this have to do with Cameron?

[obv we can't really have this conversation here]

It just further confirms Cameron's lack of judgement in hiring him in the first place. There's also the irony of those associated with the news of the screws having a super injunction out on this. Other than that it's just a distraction.

Conflict of interest I can see, but yeah, not sure how it's more devastating than anything else?

xp

Oh, and here I was, thinking it was the marching powder at a particular wedding that was going to do for DC.

Old story, entirely unrelated

TBF these tories are rather vanilla in their sleaziness compared to the early 90s lot.

okay the furore is making more sense

I have a lazy "tap that" gag ready to go, someone let me know when it's safe to do so

If we said that a certain soap actor cum fake tv hardman had been cuckolded we'd be about right, yes?

I have a lazy "tap that" gag ready to go, someone let me know when it's safe to do so

I like it.

Despite clean-shavenness, always suspected SACTVH had the benefit of a sumptuous ginger beard.

I'd always thought they were both bearded.

This superinjunction shite making all Brits go ohh shhhh all the time cracks me up. What a ridiculous medieval law, Christ.

But then I am a bit sour because i haven't figured out the initials yet :-(

click on Matt DC's old story which has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with this

OIC :)

Thanks Ed

(Not the place but this superinjunction just makes me giddy. Would the UK ask for me to be extradited I were to say it out loud here?)

try it and see

the great thing about superinjunctions is they are almost completely unenforceable once their existence becomes known because they don't really bind anyone outside of England and Wales

oh now you've done it

Yup

Stet may need to be careful if he heads south of Gretna

This doesn't seem like that much of a bombshell, tbh

I didn't put my ass on the line for "not that much of a bombshell" ;_;

can honestly say it hasn't lowered my opinion of any of the parties involved

(Not the place but this superinjunction just makes me giddy. Would the UK ask for me to be extradited I were to say it out loud here?)

They'd probably start w/me, tbh.

though if I had to share a cell w/youtube guy I'd probably choke myself on his glasses to escape

yeah stet sorry for goading lbi into spilling the beans about Anal Cunt and Richard Branson

OMG Stet we'd have so much FUN in jail! :-)

liking the screen name btw

well it's not crisis-talk-worthy but it's certainly an embarrassment

but maybe you should ixnay on the oxxday re the Cunt/Branson affair?

I mean we all agree that it's silly that uk ilxors shd have to be jumpy about this but there it is

So Le Bat can say that as he is not in the UK?

Ok, if you want me to, I will.

You have to admit though, it is just *baffling* that nothing will shut this board up, but when it comes to a ridiculous, medieval 'rule' like superinjunction, about some tabloid-worthy sex scandal like this, everyone goes "omg! can't say that! libel-suit is just around the corner!". It's bizarre.

I've seen the best minds of my ILX-generation destroyed by libel etc...

i guess no one wants to be made an example of, and i don't really blame them.

I just don't get why individual, independent minds on here feel this sudden STOP! CANT SAY IT OUT LOUD! on here. There's no precedent of this sort of censorship. Not in the "free" Western world at least.

http://www.thelawyer.com/news-and-analysis/practice-areas/litigation/high-court-upholds-mcalpine-twitter-libel-claim-against-bercow/3005218.article

Plus, it's not like we have to keep quiet, Dave Cameron is already on ILX. His name is WATERFACE.

http://order-order.com/2013/05/21/attorney-general-warns-press-over-rebekah-brooks-and-andy-coulson/

NO COMMENT.

I suppose that means this may not be a superinjunction, was there any change or call for change in superinjunction laws after the Ryan Giggs thing? It seems pointless for it to exist if in every case the only way to really enact it would be by charging 10,000 Twitter users.

yeah LBI like I say it's obv silly but since stet deleted your 1st post (I ass=u+me it was he anyway) we might as well respect that he wants to tread carefully, at least until this story explodes in oh 48hrs or so

NV: Et tu, Brute?

Why do you people feel such fear in your bodies/minds when it comes to this? It is just so wrong!

So ilx discovers something in a filename dropped by Guido Fawkes. Big deal.

Amazing kdt never took one out huh

@wins, I hadn't even noticed he'd deleted that post. Thanks for the heads up.

I will respect it for Stet. But I've difficulty to comprehend the magnitude of fear in British ilxors when it concerns stuff like this.

Well done, UK government, well done.

i don't think it's fear tbf

Then what is it?

All British people here consciously refraining from *naming names*... What other than fear is that?

prudence

Yeah, cut that out please. It's no more about a "magnitude of fear" than it is the same prudence that leads to us deleting links to copyrighted downloads etc. There's no free speech in the UK, which is where I am. I have a reasonable amount of protection because we don't pre-moderate posts, but not a massive amount.