Re: News International – the story continues : Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:52 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

That may well be true, especially when you consider the wording

i.e. they met, as two couples, only about once every 6 weeks

Fair point.

Cameron is coming out if this looking like a liar IMHO.

Now he is saying that apparently he just happened to have 'forgotten' about the memo Hunt sent him when he gave him the SKY job.
Although Jay may not land the killer blow I doubt anyone will be able to believe a word that comes out of Cameron's mouth in the future.

That plus he may have other question to answer when the Brooks case goes to trial.

Re: News International – the story continues : Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:09 pm  

Anakin Skywalker wrote:

That plus he may have other question to answer when the Brooks case goes to trial.

This is why Jay has often appeared stunted in his questioning of certain participants. A number have people have been charged and many more are still under arrest, pending further enquiries, this has had an effect on the questions and the areas of enquiry that Jay can follow.

It may appear that some seem to have got off lightly, I seriously doubt that the participants themselves feel the same way. This whole saga has still, very much got legs.

Re: News International – the story continues : Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:16 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

That may well be true, especially when you consider the wording

i.e. they met, as two couples, only about once every 6 weeks

I've really good friends that my wife and I don't see that often. "Just how close" then?

Re: News International – the story continues : Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:03 pm  

Cameron stated today that the Tories had no pro Murdoch agenda. How does he explain that when James Murdoch made speech to the Edinburgh Television Festival in 2009 calling for the shrinking of the BBC and the limiting of Offcom's power, both he and Hunt made similar speech almost immediately afterwards? How does he explain that almost the first act of Hunt when coming to power in 2010 was to tell the BBC it would have to take a 16% cut in its budget, and gave them 48 hours to come up with some proposals? Exactly what the Murdochs had been calling for.
The question is how interested are the general public in what's going on? I'm interested but then I'm interested in politics - but most people aren't. e.g the woman on The Chase tonight when asked whether there'd been more Labour, Tory or Liberal PM's in the twentieth century got the answer wrong. I'd have thought anyone who was only moderately aware of politics would have known that but she didn't. Is she typical? And if she is is all this Levison stuff going over most people's heads?

Re: News International – the story continues : Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:44 pm  

major hound wrote:

And if she is is all this Levison stuff going over most people's heads?

Yes Joe Public doesn't care.

Re: News International – the story continues : Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:56 pm  

I think a lot has got to do with people forgetting the reasons for setting up Leveson in the first place. It is to establish the culture, practice and ethics of the British press. Once these have been established, Leveson will then make recommendations of how to tackle any shortcomings.

Those who have been anticipating new revelations of any whiffs of scandal will be disappointed. What it has shown so far is that those involved: press, newspaper proprietors, politicians etc, although they may or may not have lied under oath, have certainly been more than economic with the facts and collectively seem to have a memory shortfall to a greater or lesser degree. So much so that I sincerely hope Andrew Lansley has got a few quid stuffed away somewhere because it looks like Altzheimers will reach epidemic proportions, if Leveson is anything to go by.

The real scandals and I am in no doubt that there will be some very real scandals, will start to be made public once Leveson has finished and Operations Weeting, Elvedon and Tuleta see more people appearing before the courts. This whole exercise has the potential to be as damaging to the current establishment as the Profumo affair was in the 1960s

Re: News International – the story continues : Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:14 am  

I entirely agree Cod'ead, the difference being that in the sixties people were shocked that their leaders may only be human after all.
These days, we don't even expect that much out of them.

Re: News International – the story continues : Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:59 am  

Brooks and her old man back in court today And just when you thought it was safe, we are now faced with Rebekah - The Movie

Brooks and her old man back in court today And just when you thought it was safe, we are now faced with Rebekah - The Movie

Re: News International – the story continues : Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:31 pm  

cod'ead wrote: Brooks and her old man back in court today And just when you thought it was safe, we are now faced with Rebekah - The Movie On a slightly related note I've been thinking for a while that some of this lot will be prime candidates for PR rehabilitation by reality TV when the dust finally settles.

cod'ead wrote: Brooks and her old man back in court today And just when you thought it was safe, we are now faced with Rebekah - The Movie On a slightly related note I've been thinking for a while that some of this lot will be prime candidates for PR rehabilitation by reality TV when the dust finally settles.

Re: News International – the story continues : Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:04 pm  

Keith wrote:

On a slightly related note I've been thinking for a while that some of this lot will be prime candidates for PR rehabilitation by reality TV when the dust finally settles.

Wonder what price Rebekah has negotiated for her book deal? That alone will set her up for several lives.