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

i thought we'd decided it was Phil Mitchell

I once saw them together at a book launch and R. Kemp had the most hostile body language ever.

I kind of liked the personal time I spent with RKemp but it was at a charity dinner with a number of people much harder than him.

ah, the Loose Women presenters

looooooool

Apparently there's some hilarious Fox & Friends bit where they have the NOTW as the victims, then they finish with how this foreign news isn't important anyway and that's when their Casey Anthony bit starts? (can't search, my provider has probs with youtube at the moment)

for a sec there i was wondered wtf rainer werner fassbinder had to do with this... still am but in a different way

'i was wondered' - 2:1 degree yall

xps - I once saw them at...ahem...Daylesford Organic (yea, verily, I walked into the very heart of the Chipping Norton set and ate overpriced chocolate with them) and there was a very nasty moment over a jar of organic artichoke hearts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtC4gT-_Nj0&

"If I'm not mistaken Murdoch has apologised, but FOR SOME REASON the public, the media, keeps going over this"

loooooool

James Murdoch may be arrested?

Reading rumors about same.

wow this could be the best summer ever

Thanks, Nate! It's even better than I'd read.

Am I right in thinking that Brooks is apparently still being questioned?

i'm really suspicious about these arrests before the committee thing on tuesday.

As well you should be.

Course, if *Rupert* got arrested too...

As likely as Santa Claus getting arrested for breaking & entering.
Can't shake this feeling that the whole lot of them are going to get off scott free.

from that mail "What about the REAL problems?" post

The state records our emails, spies on our rubbish bins and uses airport X-ray machines to peer sneakily at our naked bodies.

Can't shake this feeling that the whole lot of them are going to get off scott free.

After Murdoch Jr. owned up to the payments? I think not.

it may yet happen. also no police arrested yet iirc. but the committee is a spectacle, an entertaining one sure but a spectacle. starting criminal proceedings against the guilty parties is much more important in the big scheme of things.

Course, if *Rupert* got arrested too...

Can't imagine their voters in the shires are impressed at all. The pressure must be huge.

This Iain Dale goon seems distinctly unnerved by the prospect

who have the Tories got who's far enough out of the loop to take over as PM without being in the same situation in 2 weeks time?

Was just reading comments on the Telegraph and quite a lot of the top-rated comments were variations on "he must go." And that was the Telegraph.

the telegraph doesn't live cameron though, ever. comments boxes man.

'love'

Who would become PM then though? The cabinet is useless. I guess it'd have to be David Davis.

who have the Tories got who's far enough out of the loop to take over as PM without being in the same situation in 2 weeks time?

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can i just nick clegg

It's Cameron's involvement that makes me think that they're all going to get out of this relatively unscathed. Junior takes one for the team and does time in an open prison, getting let out early for 'good behaviour', but that's about it.

Anyway if Blair could survive after Iraq I'm sure Cameron will be fine.

cameron doesn't control events, no-one does. there are conspiracies, sure, but cameron is clearly not on top of this situation.

Blair was not clearly implicated in criminal activity, sorry SWP fans. Cameron, as hm says, is drowning here. Surely it's time for Ann Widdecombe to form a government of national unity.

x-post OTM. Camerons been outpaced by the story at every point.

can i just nick clegg

omg the idea of this

bring back attlee

who have the Tories got who's far enough out of the loop to take over as PM without being in the same situation in 2 weeks time?

who does labour have &c &c

i said days ago at least nobody can accuse the Lib Dems of being too close to NI. or anybody else

no lex absolutely this doesn't help the revivified corpse of the Labour party one iota. if anything, electorally this ought to play well for the LDs except you know that wd be logical or something

prolego otm and i dont see wtf shaun wright-phillips has to do with it tbh

No idea, isn't the chancellor first in line for this kind of thing? He's been very quiet recently though. Would love to know what they have on him.

I had to check the PM page on wiki for backup and found this lovely official Cameron photo on there.

there's always boris.

the chancellor was the one who recommended coulson! though that could have been a ruthless move aimed at eventually destorying cameron. he's very ambition.

xp

George has problems with escort and coke, yes?

It'll be interesting to see how much pressure there is from the Tory right / Telegraph / Mail on Cameron in the next few weeks. They only tolerated him initially because he was reasonably popular. If that starts to slip, he might have trouble within the party. On the one hand, his cuts have probably been aggressive enough for most of them, on the other, he hasn't been particularly hardline on Europe or law and order. I'm sure that the whole party had fed from the NI trough at one point but none are tied so closely or would make such a convenient sacrifice. I can't really see it happening though. Who would step in? Pickles? Davies?

Also interesting to think about what the ostensible removal of the Murdoch influence might mean for his personal politics moving forward.

problems?

It'll be interesting to see how much pressure there is from the Tory right / Telegraph / Mail on Cameron in the next few weeks.

Already kicking in:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100097264/sir-paul-stephenson-resigns-this-is-grave-news-for-david-cameron/

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