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There is a rumour doing the rounds that Cameron has been summoned to appear before the 1922 Committee!

 

Wow, this could be big. And a lot of the Tory party would do anything to rid themselves of him. They only went along with it all to gain power and he couldn't really even do that.

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The 1922 Committee has an 18-member executive committee, the chairman of which must oversee any election of a new party leader, or any vote of confidence in respect of the current one; such a vote can be triggered by 15 percent of Conservative MPs writing a letter to the chairman asking for such a vote. This process was invoked most recently on 28 October 2003, when 25 MPs requested a vote of confidence in party leader Iain Duncan Smith by writing to the chairman, Sir Michael Spicer. Duncan Smith lost the vote the next day

 

from dear old Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Committee

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Wow, this could be big. And a lot of the Tory party would do anything to rid themselves of him. They only went along with it all to gain power and he couldn't really even do that.

 

I don't really see this as being big news, and I doubt anything will come of it. The Conservative Party understands better than any other party that it's reason for existing is to be in power and the 1922 committee

or the party as a whole will do nothing to jeopardise that. The only way Cameron will be under threat is if he is seen as a liability - he's not that just yet. Of course if anyone finds any dodgy dealings by Coulson whilst he was in the tories pay then that might change......

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How remarkable that "Britain" can come out of the Culture Select Committee today worse off than the Murdochs!

 

Extraordinary stuff.

 

Sorry to say that most of the questioners came across as opiniated amateurs.

 

They were up against US Corporate trained attack dogs who had been thoroughly briefed by teams of lawyers. Who the hell was the idiot before Mensch almost begging Junior to answer his "assumptions" and thus destroy the Police Investigation?

 

Questioning by Committee, a lot of them ended up looking like a Parish Council, it was poor. The Murdoch Empire was there for the taking but not ONE of them seemed to understand that to attack a US Corporate then you have to attack PROCESSES, things like Budget Approval Levels, Management Decision making.

 

Of course Murdoch got away with "being evasive" none of the numpties asked the right questions.

 

Still in another two days or so it will all be forgotten as the Tsunami rumbles on.

 

Oh and wonder if Gordon will sleep well tonight after that short and dignified riposte by Rupert?

 

We all know Cameron sure won't and that's for different reasons

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I don't really see this as being big news, and I doubt anything will come of it. The Conservative Party understands better than any other party that it's reason for existing is to be in power and the 1922 committee

or the party as a whole will do nothing to jeopardise that. The only way Cameron will be under threat is if he is seen as a liability - he's not that just yet. Of course if anyone finds any dodgy dealings by Coulson whilst he was in the tories pay then that might change......

 

However, the 1922 Committee is on the right of the Tory party. And they don't like Cameron very much as it is. And then, of course, there was his challenge last year:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/19/david-cameron-backbench-committee-reform

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Rupert's synopsis of his relationship with GB makes Cameron look like a mere outsider to News Corp. Brooks backed it up saying she met labour PMs far more often than the current administration and offered dates to the labour MP asking the question detailing her visits..... It wasn't followed up. Have to say thought she performed far better than I thought she would!

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1. Hell of a right hook

2. How the hell could she react before "security"

 

Lol gotta love a feisty woman!

 

Fair play to her, someone wants to attack her money....ooops sorry! man, then they gotta go past her.

 

That numpty with the shaving foam, the funniest moment in what's becoming a farce.

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Rupert's synopsis of his relationship with GB makes Cameron look like a mere outsider to News Corp. Brooks backed it up saying she met labour PMs far more often than the current administration and offered dates to the labour MP asking the question detailing her visits..... It wasn't followed up. Have to say thought she performed far better than I thought she would!

 

Sounds to me like a pre planned response designed to take the heat off themselves and off Cameron.......remind me, why did Murdoch have to nip round the back of number 10 when visiting? What did he have to say to Cameron?

 

Now let me think?

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The BBC are so full of themselves that Nick Robinson is a cock and like a lot of reporters he twists words in such a way as to sensationalise or make new stories.

 

he used the word may in one sentence he used to describe comments made by brooks and then in the next instance changed the whole prose to has and thus putting a total different spin on Rebekkah Brooks testimony.

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Weak response from Miliband IMHO

 

Sky New's rolling poll has moved 5 points towards Cameron during the proceedings. It's now showing 53% in his favour, whereas at the start of the day it was 48%. It's only a snap shot and a small sample of the public, but I thought Labour misjudged it today.

 

Last night's Newsnight had Carl Bernstein on live from USA, he made a fantastic point that sums the whole thing up. He said Murdoch took the tabloids "into the gutter" and the British public "lapped it up".

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Last night's Newsnight had Carl Bernstein on live from USA, he made a fantastic point that sums the whole thing up. He said Murdoch took the tabloids "into the gutter" and the British public "lapped it up".

 

That's certainly true in so much as a large section of the public lapped it up. The Jeremy Kyle demographic.

 

Whilst the broadsheets aren't above reproach they have certainly come out of this, so far, with their reputations intact and one could argue, in the case of The Guardian, enhanced.

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Whilst the broadsheets aren't above reproach they have certainly come out of this, so far, with their reputations intact and one could argue, in the case of The Guardian, enhanced.

 

However, without Rupert Murdoch breaking the print unions and Wapping, most Broadsheets would have been bust years ago. Even now the NOTW and The Sun subsidie the loss making Times.The Guardian continues to struggle to make ends meet, despite this enhancing their reputation .

 

Hopefully this mess may lead people towards the broadsheets and therefore easing the financial burden on them.

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However, without Rupert Murdoch breaking the print unions and Wapping, most Broadsheets would have been bust years ago. Even now the NOTW and The Sun subsidie the loss making Times.The Guardian continues to struggle to make ends meet, despite this enhancing their reputation .

 

Hopefully this mess may lead people towards the broadsheets and therefore easing the financial burden on them.

 

not until they put t1ts on the inside cover or an agony aunt in the middle

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This is boring now.

Far more important things going on in the world to get our teeth into

 

And potentially far more damaging to all of our & our Children's personal lives.

 

Hope the doom-sayers are wrong over the next 2 weeks, but we could look back on this as a happy distraction.

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And potentially far more damaging to all of our & our Children's personal lives.

 

Hope the doom-sayers are wrong over the next 2 weeks, but we could look back on this as a happy distraction.

 

Nah. The imminent collapse if the euro or the US economy has far more potential to screw over our kids lives.

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Nah. The imminent collapse if the euro or the US economy has far more potential to screw over our kids lives.

 

:facepalm:

 

I was agreeing with you. Euro zone collapse with the PIIGS having to leave will send the Euro rocketing, burn banks & everyone's savings/pensions yet again and severely mess up UK PLC's exports & job prospetcs.

 

Meanwhile we can worry whether Fox News had a Black Ops Department back in 1999

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8650631/Rupert-Murdochs-Fox-News-ran-black-ops-department-former-executive-claims.html

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Just as you think this story subsides...

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019852/News-World-hacked-phone-Sarah-Paynes-mother.html

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14332689

 

(3 links there just for balance)

 

After campaigning veraciously for Sarah's law, they were hacking the Mother's phone... a phone given to them by the News of the World(join the dots anyone?). Brook's made much of her relationship with the Payne's as well... absolutely disgusting.

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Just as you think this story subsides...

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019852/News-World-hacked-phone-Sarah-Paynes-mother.html

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14332689

 

(3 links there just for balance)

 

After campaigning veraciously for Sarah's law, they were hacking the Mother's phone... a phone given to them by the News of the World(join the dots anyone?). Brook's made much of her relationship with the Payne's as well... absolutely disgusting.

 

Brooks gave it to her personally? B1tch!

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we will await for the shadow cabinet to release their meetings. I wonder if the last governments records will also be released. You will be very naive to believe this has not been going on for a long time. Perhaps the meetings with the Guardian should be made public, after all the government spends a lot of money with them.

The whole lot is a sorry mess,and pointing the finger is a danger as I suspect all parties have tried to court the media.

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we will await for the shadow cabinet to release their meetings. I wonder if the last governments records will also be released. You will be very naive to believe this has not been going on for a long time. Perhaps the meetings with the Guardian should be made public, after all the government spends a lot of money with them.

The whole lot is a sorry mess,and pointing the finger is a danger as I suspect all parties have tried to court the media.

 

The meetings records with all other newspaper groups have been released by the government. They show that NI was by a country mile the most frequent visitors - and that the meetings tended to be with NI executives rather than journalists.

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Johnny boy. you should check your facts before calling someone a *****. if you bothered to look into what had gone on you will find Ms brooks is a very close friend of sara payne. Some other weasel allegedelly hacked the phone or lets says the phone details were on the police documents , does not mean it was hacked

 

what the NOW did was wrongand the likes of mulcraine and beardall are just saddos

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Johnny boy. you should check your facts before calling someone a *****. if you bothered to look into what had gone on you will find Ms brooks is a very close friend of sara payne. Some other weasel allegedelly hacked the phone or lets says the phone details were on the police documents , does not mean it was hacked

 

what the NOW did was wrongand the likes of mulcraine and beardall are just saddos

 

The fact that a giant multinational should stoop to hiring Barry the Briefcase just goes to show you what lowlifes NI are. Mulcaire was a heavily paid contractor to NoW, undertaking specifically ordered tasks and receiving very high fees for carrying them out. He may have been a 'saddo' as you call him, but that doesn't alter the rather easily checkable 'fact' that he was acting under instruction from NoW execs.

 

It's a great shame that the Select Committee didn't ask Brooks the direct question: what instructions did you give Mulcaire? I guess we'll have to wait for the trial.

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