The Metropolitan police authority is currently holding a meeting to discuss Mr Yates' handling of the phone hacking affair and his links with Mr Wallis, a former senior executive at the News of the World.It is understood the authority has decided to hold an investigation into the assistant commissioner. It is expected he will be asked to step down while this investigation is carried out.A source close to the mayor told The Daily Telegraph: "If an investigation is ongoing he cannot stay in his job."
It is understood the authority has decided to hold an investigation into the assistant commissioner. It is expected he will be asked to step down while this investigation is carried out.
A source close to the mayor told The Daily Telegraph: "If an investigation is ongoing he cannot stay in his job."
― James Mitchell, Monday, 18 July 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
Although it's not like Boris is still in charge of the MPA, so it's not like he's trying to grab the glory for himself.
oh nononono nooo
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
Just thinking about annoying style journalist, initials DJ, whose fealty to Cameron caused an industry to sick up onto its taxi shoes...
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Monday, 18 July 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, excellent choice - please let him be implicated...
Yates gone now?
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 18 July 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
Soundtrack for today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEO7AtBvmgA
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Monday, 18 July 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
was going to link to this just in case anyone wanted an overview, but it has some pretty fun moments:
Nick Davies had been alerted that Brooks had told colleagues that the story was going to end with “Alan Rusbridger on his knees, begging for mercy.” “They would have destroyed us,” Davies said on a Guardian podcast last week. “If they could have done, they would have shut down The Guardian.”
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/17/how-the-guardian-broke-the-news-of-the-world-hacking-scandal.html#
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Monday, 18 July 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Those evil far left Liberal Democrat supporters
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
“Alan Rusbridger on his knees, begging for mercy."
oh man the more i hear about this story the more i love this woman
― c sharp major, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
she is the greatest villainess of all time
― c sharp major, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
I mean... who in the world could you cast that would do justice to her? She is amazing.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
TILDA SWINTON
― c sharp major, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
that just might work!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
This shot is just unbelievable
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/07/article-2012326-0CE9646C00000578-34_634x382.jpg
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
That was the day the NOTW was shut down
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
... and featuring, in his first dramatic role, as David Cameron, PM... Michael McIntyre
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ tilda swinton, word. tilda swinton reprising her role from the last ten minutes of michael clayton.the bit where she was saying that the guardian 'had it in for them' to departing staff is still the thing that kills me, that you could be so mired in shit & still see it as a conspiracy.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
It's weird to be able to actually enjoy the Guardian being smug about something
― MPx4A, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
Scotland Yard's Assistant Commissioner John Yates says he's done "nothing wrong", amid speculation he could be suspended over the phone-hacking scandal. He tells reporters who ask if his position is untenable: "Give me a break."
LOL, what a twat
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxxpostI like the way it appears there's a little mutant hand trying to get out of her chest.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
i was thinking nicole kidman (botox would help, when have you ever seen our rebekah have a facial expression) but SWINTON seems perfect
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
or cate blanchett for full rebekah brooks/elizabeth i crossover
great opportunity for a bonnie langford comeback here
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
shameless wall street journal editorial: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576451812776293184.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
as bad in a way as that fox & friends clip
― max, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.wikia.com/chuckychildsplay/images/5/52/Chucky.jpg
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
Our readers can decide if we are a better publication than we were four years ago, but there is no denying that News Corp. has invested in the product. The news hole is larger. Our foreign coverage in particular is more robust, our weekend edition more substantial, and our expansion into digital delivery ahead of the pack. The measure that really matters is the market's, and on that score Mr. Hinton was at the helm when we again became America's largest daily.
Another day of chucking journalism down the news hole...
― Neil S, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
The overnight turn toward righteous independence recalls an eternal truth: Never trust a politician.
And uh, uh, I know you are, but what am I?!?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Hearing that Cameron was about to employ Coulson, the editor of the Graun let him (and, separately, Clegg) know that
in 2005 Coulson’s NotW had rehired as one of its investigators a man named Jonathan Rees, who was just out of prison having served a seven-year sentence for planting cocaine on an innocent woman. Rees was now in prison, awaiting trial for conspiracy to murder his former business partner, a man who had been found in a pub parking lot with an ax in his head.
He appeared rather dismissive of its significance and only a little rattled.
― dave kohl (sic), Monday, 18 July 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Melanie Phillips" strikes again:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2015829/Phone-hacking-scandal-If-Ed-Miliband-hero-wont-tackle-BBC.html
― Neil S, Monday, 18 July 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
cate blanchett is one of the most beautiful women in the world and rebekah brooks looks like a regla at an ayrshire magistrates court
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
sic, and to boot, Rees was spying on the police officers in charge of investigating him for that murder! Of course he couldn't do the spying himself since his every move was being watched so he hired.... NotW people to do the job for him! joe linked that article in the other thread, it's here -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-rebekah-brooks
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
There's a part of me that wants to spend a night with her.
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
nakh while i agree tbh I don't think Blanchett has the think-bones to do Brooks justice
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
@BBCMichaelCrick Gordon Brown was so keen on judicial inquiry into hacking that it was even an item in May 2010 Lab Lib Dem Coalition negotiations
Serve it cold, Gordon...
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
David Cameron tried his best to look interested during a lengthy business Q&A just now at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange; but his mind is undoubtedly elsewhere, several thousand miles to the north, where the phone hacking saga is yielding new twists and turns by the hour.But he looked a bit more alert when Jason Groves of the Daily Mail – alluding to Ed Miliband’s comments this morning – asked whether he was considering his position as prime minister.The answer was rather rambling and gave neither a negative or affirmative. Cameron must realise that “prime minister refuses to quit” would be a gift for the press.
But he looked a bit more alert when Jason Groves of the Daily Mail – alluding to Ed Miliband’s comments this morning – asked whether he was considering his position as prime minister.
The answer was rather rambling and gave neither a negative or affirmative. Cameron must realise that “prime minister refuses to quit” would be a gift for the press.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
James Chapman, the Mail’s political editor, has pointed out that the odds of David Cameron quitting the cabinet first are now (at 12-1) shorter than those of Caroline Spelman (at 16-1).
hahaha
ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
spelman of the forest-selling, lest we forget
More from Cameron's ramble:
The British Government, in terms of this phone-hacking scandal, has taken all of the appropriate action. ...I feel I have been out there in Parliament and in press conferences, fully answering the questions, fully transparent, very clear about what needs to be done, making sure that Britain gets to the bottom of what has been a terrible episode in terms of what newspapers have done, hacking into private data, and also some very big questions about potential police corruption - we need to get to the bottom of those.I've said very clearly as a politician that the relationship between politicians and media hasn't been right.The music has stopped on my watch and I am determined to get to the bottom of it to make sure we have a better relationship in the future and to put these things right.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
I’m going to make a big statement...
Because I'm a big statesman. No, really I am.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
yates has resigned, sez twitter
so jaded that i can barely muster a shrug, our sights are surely on bigger fish now
― lex pretend, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
"He's so nervous, avoiding all the questions"
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
BBC:
BREAKING NEWS:Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigns amid criticism of his investigation into phone hacking
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
I've said very clearly as a politician that the relationship between politicians and media hasn't been right...in fact I was only saying that to Rebekah the other day, but she told me to stop being such a worrier and once they got Rusbridger on his knees it would all be fine...
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
Scotland Yard's Assistant Commissioner John Yates says he's done "nothing wrong", amid speculation he could be suspended over the phone-hacking scandal. He tells reporters who ask if his position is untenable: "Give me a break. I resign"
fixed
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
How many resignations from people who have done absolutely nothing wrong are we on now?
― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
It's the old get-out, used oft in the past, see Dame Shirley Porter or Jeffrey Archer:
"I have done nothing wrong" which is a matter of (someone's) opinion,
vs
"I have done nothing illegal" which is something that can be established.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Wonder if Cressida Dick will still be thinking about Jean Charles de Menezes "every day" in her new role?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 18 July 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
this was a quality lol
― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
this hacking scandal has caused such a distraction to my work that i am also resigning today
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
fry and laurie sketch on rubert murdoch from 1995 -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00j5rz8/a_bit_of_fry_and_laurie_its_a_soaraway_life_the_rupert_murdoch_sketch/
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link