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In case anyone missed it, and in case people still prefer to recall the tawdry relationship between Murdoch and past and present Labour and Tory leaders as excuses for Eck's current behaviour, this is what the Labour leader said:

"First Minister Alex Salmond has become the only senior politician in this country, perhaps in the world, to invite him round to his home for tea.

"His newspapers might be being investigated for bribery, perverting the course of justice, destroying evidence and perjury, but Rupert is still welcome in Wee Eck's house.

"There may be three police investigations going on, a judicial inquiry and nearly 50 arrests but Eck still puts the kettle on for Rupert."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... upert.html

Problem is Gus that Salmond is the only one still sucking up to Murdoch, so the more stories like this the worse it looks for the SNP.

Author:	gusmac [ Sun May 13, 2012 4:44 am ]
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David Cameron was so anxious to secure the services of Andy Coulson as his director of communications that the Tory leader backed down on one of his key demands, it is revealed today. In a sign of how Mr Coulson was in the driving seat over his controversial appointment, the former News of the World editor called the bluff of the Tory leader and George Osborne by refusing to sign a confidentiality clause as part of his appointment. The move reveals for the first time the desperation of Mr Cameron, then Leader of the Opposition, and Mr Osborne, to win over the Murdoch empire as they manoeuvred to secure a general election victory. As the Leveson inquiry prepares to hear more evidence this week about the relations between News International and the Tories, The Independent on Sunday has learnt that Rebekah Brooks and her husband spent a weekend at Dorneywood, the Chancellor's official residence, during a key period in the bid by News Corp to take over BSkyB. The previously undisclosed "pyjama party", in 2010, which also featured Mr Coulson and his wife, Eloise, will add fuel to demands for the Chancellor to be called to give evidence to Leveson in person. Mr Osborne is among eight cabinet ministers to be granted "core participant" status, allowing them privileged access to documents put before the inquiry, but he is the only minister of the group not scheduled to give evidence. Last night an aide to Mr Osborne said that the Chancellor had listed on the Treasury website a "social" engagement with Mrs Brooks in September 2010, even though full details of the Dorneywood weekend were not given. The aide said that Mr Osborne had been "absolutely transparent" in his dealings with News International figures. A new edition of a biography of David Cameron, Practically a Conservative, reveals that in 2007, at the time of Mr Coulson's appointment, the Tory leader was concerned that the ex-NOTW editor would write a memoir about working for him. The book, by James Hanning, deputy editor of The Independent on Sunday, and Francis Elliott of The Times, reveals that "Cameron wanted a clause inserted in Coulson's contract guaranteeing that he would not write a memoir, but Coulson refused. Tellingly, Osborne, tasked with brokering the hire, didn't feel they could insist and backed down." The authors write that there was a "cursory check" into whether there were any outstanding court cases or industrial tribunals that might throw up further details. "We wanted to be sure there were no outstanding legal cases," said one of those involved. Last week Mr Coulson told the inquiry that he was asked only once by Mr Cameron about phone-hacking, which triggered his resignation from the Murdoch-owned newspaper. But, according to Practically a Conservative, to be serialised in The Independent on Sunday next week, Mr Cameron's concern at hiring Mr Coulson was less to do with the circumstances of his resignation earlier that year than the result of his wariness of journalists as a breed. Mr Cameron was worried that Mr Coulson might follow the behaviour of Amanda Platell, another former editor turned press secretary who worked for William Hague. She went home each night during the 2001 election campaign to record a video diary, later seen on national television. But Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, in particular, were desperate to emulate Tony Blair and acquire for the Tories their "own Alastair Campbell". When Mr Coulson refused to sign a confidentiality clause, Mr Osborne backed down. The revelation also sheds further light on the central role played by the then Shadow Chancellor in pursuing the Blair strategy. Mr Coulson's appointment is expected to come under scrutiny at Leveson tomorrow when the former cabinet secretary, Lord O'Donnell, gives evidence. Lord O'Donnell oversaw the vetting process for civil servants, including advisers such as Mr Coulson, who was subjected to a lower level of security clearance when he became director of communications at Downing Street in May 2010. Uncertainty remains over aspects of Mrs Brooks's evidence to the inquiry on Friday. In July last year, The IoS revealed that Mrs Brooks and Mr Cameron met at a drinks party in an Oxfordshire manor on Boxing Day 2010. A week later, sources close to the Prime Minister confirmed that they had met at that party at the house of Mrs Brooks's sister-in-law, Annabel Brooks. It came only three days after Mr Cameron and Mrs Brooks had dinner with James Murdoch on 23 December. On Friday, when Mrs Brooks was asked whether she had met the Prime Minister on Boxing Day, and whether she had had a conversation with him, she said she might have seen him across the room, but that "No, I don't think there was a conversation". However, a fellow guest at the party has confirmed to The IoS that the two definitely spoke to each other on at least two occasions that evening. The position of the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, remained in the balance last night after an email revealed by Mrs Brooks on Friday suggested he had asked for News International to guide No 10 and his own department about phone hacking. Yesterday the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, stepped up pressure on Mr Hunt to resign. In a speech to the Progress Conference, he said: "One of the reasons so many people hate politics so much right now is that they think politicians stand up for the wrong people, not the right people. This is a clear example of that – Jeremy Hunt was standing up for Rupert Murdoch, not for the public interest. Out of touch with the many. Too close to the few. Jeremy Hunt should go." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... es_in=5342

Author:	gusmac [ Sun May 13, 2012 4:46 am ]
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"One of the reasons so many people hate politics so much right now is that they think politicians stand up for the wrong people, not the right people. This is a clear example of that – Jeremy Hunt was standing up for Rupert Murdoch, not for the public interest. Out of touch with the many. Too close to the few. Jeremy Hunt should go." Ed Miliband

Author:	Dusty Bin [ Sun May 13, 2012 5:50 am ]
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In case anyone missed it, and in case people still prefer to recall the tawdry relationship between Murdoch and past and present Labour and Tory leaders as excuses for Eck's current behaviour, this is what the Labour leader said: "First Minister Alex Salmond has become the only senior politician in this country, perhaps in the world, to invite him round to his home for tea. "His newspapers might be being investigated for bribery, perverting the course of justice, destroying evidence and perjury, but Rupert is still welcome in Wee Eck's house. "There may be three police investigations going on, a judicial inquiry and nearly 50 arrests but Eck still puts the kettle on for Rupert." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... upert.html

Author:	wannabeeahack [ Sun May 13, 2012 10:50 am ]
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have we forgotten Mr and Mrs Blairs property deals in Bristol and HIS advisors, etc? NONE of them seem able to DO THE JOB, so how do they get the job? Oh, and Blair+WMD=how many dead/maimed british squaddies?

Author:	gusmac [ Sun May 13, 2012 10:52 am ]
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Dusty Bin wrote: In case anyone missed it, and in case people still prefer to recall the tawdry relationship between Murdoch and past and present Labour and Tory leaders as excuses for Eck's current behaviour, this is what the Labour leader said: "First Minister Alex Salmond has become the only senior politician in this country, perhaps in the world, to invite him round to his home for tea. "His newspapers might be being investigated for bribery, perverting the course of justice, destroying evidence and perjury, but Rupert is still welcome in Wee Eck's house. "There may be three police investigations going on, a judicial inquiry and nearly 50 arrests but Eck still puts the kettle on for Rupert." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... upert.html So when can we expect to see this heinous criminal appear in court, charged with an offence? When can we expect to see his vile newspapers closed down, or at least the outraged British public to stop buying them? Thought not. Politicians of all persuasions have spent decades sucking up Murdoch's arse. When they make statements like Miliband's, it's hypocrisy, pure and simple. His lips are as brown as anyone's

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Author:	gusmac [ Tue May 15, 2012 1:41 pm ]
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Squeaky bum time at No 10? Rebekah Brooks faces phone-hacking charge Tuesday, 15 May 2012 8:40 AM http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/05/ ... 6cf44d41bc By Alex Stevenson Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is among those facing the first criminal charges in the phone-hacking scandal. Mrs Brooks and five others face charges of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, the Crown Prosecution Service announced this morning. One other person arrested by the Metropolitan police will face no further action. Mrs Brooks and her husband, the racecourse trainer Charlie Brooks, have been charged with concealing material from Met police officers between July 6th and July 19th 2011. Also facing this charge are Cheryl Carter, Ms Brooks' former personal assistant; Mark Hanna, the head of security at News International; Paul Edwards, Ms Brooks' chauffeur who was employed by News International; and Daryl Jorsling, who provided security for Mrs Brooks. A second charge alleges that Mrs Brooks and Ms Carter "conspired together permanently to remove seven boxes of material from the archive of News International" between July 6th and July 9th 2011. A third charge relating to Mr and Mrs Brooks, Mr Hanna, Mr Edwards and Mr Jorsling alleges that documents, computers and other electronic equipment were concealed from Met officers between July 15th and July 19th 2011. "Applying the two-stage test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors I have concluded that in relation to all suspects except the seventh, there is sufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction," Alison Levitt QC, the principal legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions, announced this morning. "I then considered the second stage of the test, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of the other six." In a statement released by her lawyers Mr and Mrs Brooks said: "We deplore this weak and unjust decision after the further unprecedented posturing of the CPS we will respond later today after our return from the police station." Conspiring to pervert the course of justice carries a potential jail sentence. An initial hearing at Westminster magistrates court is expected in the next few weeks. Ms Brooks is the highest-profile of the suspects whose files have been assessed by the Crown Prosecution Service. She was arrested on March 13th on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice under Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan police's probe into phone-hacking begun in January 2011. Ms Brooks served as editor of News of the World from 2000 to 2003, as editor of the Sun from 2003 to 2009 and as chief executive of News International from 2009 until her resignation at the height of the phone-hacking scandal in July 2011. She was quizzed for five hours last Friday by the Leveson inquiry's counsel, Robert Jay, but direct questioning on phone-hacking was avoided because of the ongoing criminal investigation. Mr Jay did ask Ms Brooks about whether she accepted phone-hacking at the News of the World had gone beyond the single 'rogue reporter' Clive Goodman, the only journalist at the paper to have been jailed for the offence. She replied that News International had already acknowledged that was the case. Ms Brooks also confirmed she discussed phone-hacking with David Cameron in 2010, when the prime minister had expressed interest in the civil cases being brought against News International. There have been over 40 arrests made by Operation Weeting so far, including the prime minister's former communications chief Andy Coulson

Author:	Dusty Bin [ Wed May 16, 2012 12:25 am ]
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Problem is Gus that Salmond is the only one still sucking up to Murdoch, so the more stories like this the worse it looks for the SNP.

Author:	gusmac [ Wed May 16, 2012 1:03 am ]
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Dusty Bin wrote: Problem is Gus that Salmond is the only one still sucking up to Murdoch, so the more stories like this the worse it looks for the SNP. Hypocrisy Dusty. Are the rest any better now that they all distance themselves?

Author:	Dusty Bin [ Wed May 16, 2012 1:27 am ]
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They're all hypocrites, Gus? Tell me something I didn't know. But the problem with all this Leveson and NI stuff is that the public are becoming a bit blase about it all, because it just confirms what they knew already. It's great for the press and the partisans - particularly the anti-Murdoch element, who're obviously the vast majority and are lapping it all up - but from the perspective of the public more generally it's more a case of same old, same old. On the other hand, Salmond and Murdoch is a relatively new story, and to that extent there's still a downside for the SNP, because Scottish politics is supposed to be above that sort of thing, innit? And to reiterate, of course they're all hypocrites, but that doesn't change the fact that Salmond is the only one still trying to defend Murdoch, and that combined with the above factor doesn't play too well for the SNP.

Author:	wizzkid [ Wed May 16, 2012 1:52 am ]
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wanna bet they all be back kissin his butt by the next election

Author:	Doom [ Wed May 16, 2012 4:01 am ]
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Soapbox put away for another week

Author:	taxeman [ Wed May 16, 2012 10:07 am ]
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It's all a circus, let's the Goyim think justice is for all. Old anarchist expression......Doesn't matter who you vote for the government still gets in.

Author:	gusmac [ Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:40 pm ]
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'It stinks of a cover-up': David Cameron sidesteps email cache questions Cameron refuses to give further details on Brooks correspondence in reply to Labour deputy leader David Cameron faced fresh charges of a cover-up last night after avoiding questions for the fifth consecutive day about a cache of private emails between him and Rebekah Brooks. He sidestepped five parliamentary questions over electronic communications with Ms Brooks, the former News International chief executive, that were not released to the Leveson Inquiry into media standards. The Prime Minister also refused to release any further information in reply to a letter on the same subject from Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader. The Independent disclosed this week that the Prime Minister had decided not to release the email cache to Lord Justice Leveson after receiving legal advice that they were not relevant to the investigation. Downing Street has insisted it complied in full with the inquiry and inbad-tempered Commons exchanges on Wednesday Mr Cameron refused to answer a challenge on the issue from Labour front-bencher Chris Bryant. Mr Bryant then tabled parliamentary questions asking for further details of the unpublished exchanges with Ms Brooks, with Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, and with other senior News International figures. Ms Harman also wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to release the electronic contacts with senior News International figures. In Mr Cameron's response to Mr Bryant yesterday, he referred him to a letter he had just written to Ms Harman in which he said he was "happy to respond to your questions in full". He added: "I have co-operated fully with the Inquiry and given them all the material that they have asked for." Last night Mr Bryant and Ms Harman said they would table fresh parliamentary questions on the subject. Mr Bryant said: "It stinks of a cover-up. The Prime Minister is refusing to deny there's more material. What Leveson asked for or not is irrelevant. The question is why is this material not in the public domain and how did he decide it was relevant to the public inquiry." Ms Harman said: "The Prime Minister is ducking the questions and fobbing off completely justifiable inquiries... He is not being transparent about his communications with Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson." Ms Brooks is awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to hack phones and perverting the course of justice. She denies the charges. Mr Coulson is charged with conspiring to hack phones and perjury. He denies any knowledge of phone-hacking. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 19083.html

Author:	bloodnock [ Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:03 pm ]
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Dusty Bin wrote: In case anyone missed it, and in case people still prefer to recall the tawdry relationship between Murdoch and past and present Labour and Tory leaders as excuses for Eck's current behaviour, this is what the Labour leader said: "First Minister Alex Salmond has become the only senior politician in this country, perhaps in the world, to invite him round to his home for tea. "His newspapers might be being investigated for bribery, perverting the course of justice, destroying evidence and perjury, but Rupert is still welcome in Wee Eck's house. "There may be three police investigations going on, a judicial inquiry and nearly 50 arrests but Eck still puts the kettle on for Rupert." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... upert.html Its getting the like the Muppets in here...Above are Waldorf and Statler And in the post above that its Beaker...

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Author:	gusmac [ Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:32 pm ]
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The new story, in case you missed it, is Cameron concealing evidence from a public enquiry. So what's he got to hide? But hey, lets ignore what is possibly a criminal act. After all, he's a Tory Prime Minister - next to God in your eyes.