News International. The Saga Continues...

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Now onto the other NewsCorp papers, unworthy of being used as toilet paper.

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Neither Tony Blair nor Gordon Brown hired Andy Coulson as their top spin doctor...

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I do hope that the hack on Newsnight that Steve Coogan tore to shreds was an actor.

McMullan was worse here. Perfectly made a show of by John Prescott.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/video/series-1/episode-12/phone-hacking

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Prince Charles and Camilla targeted too apparently.

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http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2011/07/11/could-the-murdoch-press-be-no-more/

I'd rather him stay with the papers if that means he can't have Sky. A Fox News UK would do 10x more damage than any front page slash on The Sun ever could..

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I don't completely get why Cameron's running away from this whole thing. Refusing to ask Brooks to go, refusing to debate today. Has he got something to hide? Even Clegg's climbed out from under his rock (hadn't heard much about him for about a month and a half) to say a few words about it.

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Watching Gordon Brown in the Commons now. He's brilliant.

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Watching Gordon Brown in the Commons now. He's brilliant.

I felt quite sorry for him. It was essentially a rant (which breached civil service protocal) from a man who finally turned up to the Commons and shattered what had until then been a bi-partisan atmosphere. He never stood up to News International; he fawned over them and screeching about it in the Commons won't change that fact.

He never had a choice; the support of this media mogul was vital to Labour getting back in 1997 and staying there for three terms. It shaped public opinion as much as followed it.

Exactly. And he even if he did call Coulson upon his resignation, only one PM hired him again.

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Actually doing a tour of parliament on the day of the hearings. Interesting.

Oh, and:


You know you're up a certain creek when people think Clegg's doing something better than you are.

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Is the affair about to turn towards Dave again? Or is Mike Smithson over-egging it again?

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And Populus comes out with:
LAB 39 (-1)
CON 34 (-5)
LD 11 (+2)

Ed Miliband's popularity is up in ICM (from -21, to -16), while Cameron is static at -5. Nick Clegg has gone from -20 to -21.

The scandal does go beyond the Westminster bubble, people wouldn't be resigning and papers wouldn't be closing if it was so media confined. Cameron is going through this scandal looking horrific to the public. Ed Miliband hasn't become a national hero, he just looks less crap and a bit more electable than he did two weeks ago.

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The day I go to parliament and Murdoch gets a pie to the face. Result!

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Murdoch's wife's said that Tony Blair's the Godfather of their daughter...

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What is he up to?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/29/rupert-murdoch-twitter-old-toffs-hacking-allegations_n_1387169.html?ref=uk&ref=uk

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I'm loving how the government can't seem to catch a break.

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Mensch standing strongly by Murdoch. Who owns the company which publishes her sister, a fellow author.

Aha.

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The Times is reporting that David Cameron text Rebekah Brookes telling her to "Keep her head up!" after she resigned.

He also told her that "Ed Miliband's got me on the run."
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/05/09/cameron-to-rebekah-brooks-ed-miliband-had-me-on-the-run/

LOL