September 9th, 2010

Commons Committee to Investigate NOTW

As the phone “hacking” saga gets its debate in the House, and now a Standards and Privileges Committee investigation, new levels of hysteria have been reached. Tom Watson is demanding that Rupert Murdoch to be called before Parliament to answer for himself. Don’t hold your breath mate…

Given journalists left, right and centre are openly admitting, sometimes live on TV, that the practice of listening to other people’s answer-phone messages was widespread, you must wonder how papers like the Observer and the Mirror are justifying their Coulson onslaught. Back in 2002 a crowded room of showbiz reporters cheered and laughed as a Sun hack blamed Vodafone, who were sponsoring the event, for their lax security that enabled the Mirror to get their exclusives. When the Guardian wrote it up back then, they knew exactly what was meant and didn’t bat an eyelid.

Labour’s case is undone by only targeting News International and making this a big bad Murdoch attack. If they were really as concerned as they are pretending to be then they wouldn’t be focussing their fire on just one publication…


254 Comments

  1. 1
    Anonymous says:

    But they cant because arnt the pigs going to look again ?

    • 3
      Anonymous says:

      Unless the will open the investigation them suspend it while the filth look into it then when nothing is found they can reopen it and bring it up yet again .

      • 162
        the big book of shit excuses says:

        “everyone else was doing it”

        “it was all within the rules and not a big deal”

        it’s like MPs expenses all over again where the Newspapers were less than keen to believe that horseshit

        and a couple of journalists qwere SENT TO JAIL over this type of hacking
        so enough with the “it doesn’t matter” crap

        • 195
          Baroness Udders of Titfull, sucking on the Great Socialist Tit says:

          In my case, it was because it was expected of me.

        • 197
          Mzzzz. Shagged-in-Sarf'ampton says:

          In my case it was b’cos I needed a bloody good regular seeing-to, and where else can you get that?

    • 7
      Inspector Clueless says:

      Cheer up chaps,

      I still agree with what we were all saying over a week ago. This story is boring and has no legs.

      • 127
        Dick the Prick says:

        Agree very very boring. This story is only being played out in Westminster but guess you can’t blame the Tories for telling obscene, petulant, ignorant, odious and hypocritical socialists to suck on it. Coulson should probably resign in a few months but this is defo more damaging to Labour. Jack Torture devoted all 6 questions at PMQs yesterday after Cleggie read out the war dead. How morally disgusting.

      • 131
        Mr Ned says:

        I think it would be amusing if the tories had done some digging of their own and Cameron were to make a statement to the house unveiling instances of the Guardian and the mirror and the other left-wing dead tree press use of these “widespread” tactics. Especially stories which the labour party may have benefited politically from.

        Labour need nailing to their own petard more often.

        • 142
          Make noise but not too much or else says:

          Dear old Rupert has tons of heavy duty shit on lots of conservative pedos and poofs

    • 8
      Inspector Clueless says:

      ….and what was the other one, oh yeah, who give a fuck.

    • 10
      ddd says:

      Where is the EVIDENCE other papers have been up to it Guido? They are concentrating on the News of The World because it’s been proven that they have been up to it.

    • 11
      Inspector Clueless says:

      Nearly forgot, Fuck the BBC.

    • 24
      Hoons says:

      So self serving MPs are enraged that their voicemails were listened into. They could not give a shit about anyone else who may have had the same invasion of privacy but because the are MPs they waste parliament’s time because they are very important people unlike the rest of us. WANKERS!!!!!

      • 45
        MI7 says:

        well said. all the fucking 1984 surveilance laws labour brought in wanting to know what the people are upto and now they bitch about someone snooping on there voice mail

        • 98
          Anonymous says:

          In 1984 Thatcher was in power.

        • 152
          Mr Ned says:

          They should have CHANGED THEIR PINs!

          Dialling a public phone number for voice-mail, then dialling the default code for the voice-mail box is NOT hacking. It is taking advantage of an incompetent fuckwit.

          It would be like if the MP had a private lockable mailbox, and had unsealed openly readable letters posted into it, then left the the box unlocked with the door flapping open.

          It is similar to when police chiefs get into a car in downing street and have their documentation on display. Sure the journalist has to take action to rotate, expand and filter the image to show what is written on those documents, but it is the person in charge of those documents who failed to secure them who is to blame for the contents getting into the public domain.

          Likewise with these voice-mail accounts. The person who has the account is responsible for keeping it secure.

          • Mike Hunt says:

            I likened it to looking through the window when they leave their curtains open but that’s a pretty good analogy too.

          • Anonymous says:

            Spot on Mr.Ned. The idiots didn’t change the default pin & thus compromised the security of their voice-mail.
            They have only their own stupidity to blame & should stop trying to make political points by attempting to shift the blame elsewhere.

          • ED-209 says:

            Well said Mr Ned, they are very lax with their own security and lets be honest all their phone calls e mails etc are able to be read / listened to by gchq anyway.There is no such thing as privacy who uses telecoms anymore and they voted for it……

      • 97
        The Ape Man Commeth says:

        Exactly right.

      • 166
        Hugh Janus says:

        Yes, spot on H. Despite the fact that NuLiebour left us in financial meltdown with bankruptcy only just around the corner, anyone would think that this subject is of world-shattering importance, when in fact it is merely a time-filler in their long and now empty days, and where they see the possibility, however remote, of getting back at the party that kicked them out. Pitiful. Even the pie-ating oaf pitched in, when he wasn’t even on the list. What a sad bunch.

        Nothing changes.

  2. 2
    MI7 says:

    hacking someones phone who gives a fuck.

    7/7 9/11 inside jobs – that matters

    bank of england a private corp run for profit at our expense that fucking matters

    • 56
      Inspector Clueless says:

      Cheer up GrimeLord,

      When this boring, non-story finally runs its course we can get back to what really matters – sniggering innuendo about Hague.

    • 59
      Inspector Clueless says:

      Sorry about that MI7, I called you GrimeLord.

      I really am incredibly thick.

    • 66
      AC1 says:

      Tin Foil hats all round.

    • 67
      Inspector Clueless says:

      Ooh, I’ve just realised that my previous comment is awaiting moderation. It contains the word snigg’ering. Which itself contains the word ring. Could this be the problem?

      • 109
        Da po-faced Divvy, Equaltitty 'n da Inclusive Ofsah, - also on da lookout for da raycyst ‘n da fatty says:

        Guido am de Main Man!

        He kno’ yo am not ta say da words or da uvva wurds wot rimes or says da bleedin’ obvus!

        Do yo’ wanna looz any flab?

      • 150
        Sam Bo says:

        might be

    • 179
      Mr Ned says:

      Anyone who mentions 9/11 is considered a tin-foil hat wearing nutcase on here.

      This conveniently ignores the fact that there is NO SUCH THING as a true and accurate and complete account of what happened that day. There is ONLY conspiracy theories.

      Even the official 9/11 commission report is a wild conspiracy theory which is no longer supported by the commission chairs, or the chief legal council due to the restrictions, falsifications and impediments they received from the American administration during the evidence gathering phase of that investigation.

      Let me make that real plain for ya.


      The co-chairs and legal council for the official 9/11 commission dispute their own findings because they were hampered in the investigation by their own government.

      So WHAT is the truth? Why are people who want to know the truth pilloried and insulted for wanting to know what the truth is? People really do use the term “truthers” as if it is an insult. Well I am PROUD to be dedicated to the pursuit of truth. Those who aren’t are merely lying sacks of shit who are apologists for terrorists.

      How and Why did the most sophisticated air defence system on the planet fail so spectacularly (in spite of specific defence drills which simulated this exact type of attack, and many clear warnings from other intelligence services in Germany, France, Russia about the attacks being imminent) and why did the General in Charge of NORAD on that day get PROMOTED after that massive failure? Why has no one from the US administration or the defence staff or anyone else who failed in their duty to follow standard operating procedure been punished for that massive failure?

      The “we were surprised by it” defence is 100% grade A bullshit.

      Now I am not going to attempt to push any wild conspiracy theory to suggest what happened or who did what, because I simply do not know all of what happened that day.

      But I am going to continue to ask for an independent open forensic investigation into ALL the evidence, no matter where or to whom it may lead to get to the truth.

      The fact is, that 9 years after those attacks, we still have little undeniable truth about how it happened. How the defence systems failed, how certain people knew in advance of the attacks and were filming them happen whilst dancing and high-fiving. If the orders by Don Rumsfeld to change the SOP for fighter jet intercepts of commercial aircraft which he changed in the June had any adverse effect on 9/11 and how Barbara Olson made a call on a plane without a credit card when mobile phones did not work on aircraft in 2001.

      There are hundreds of unanswered questions relating to the facts of what is known about that day.

      Why did Rumsfeld change the SOP for fighter jet intercepts of commercial aircraft in the June before the attacks?
      How did paper passports survive the inferno?
      How did several of the hijackers turn up alive and well in other countries which showed that their identities had been stolen meaning we do not actually know who all the hijackers were?
      What were the “devout Muslim extremist” “hijackers” doing in a strip joint drinking alcohol an the night before their martyrdom?

      Why is asking for the truth a bad thing?

      • 189
        Socialism Ate My Future says:

        A perfect “Red Flag” operation, no doubt Obama will be seeking one for November.

      • 228
        Maximus says:

        Worth mentioning the superb quality of the journalism from the BBC on that day — announcing the collapse of the third tower at the WTC 20+ minutes before it happened. Flog ‘em. Then flog ‘em off.

  3. 4
    Tim Lovejoy says:

    Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a BBC legend who did not hack anyones phone , However my boss at the BBC said that Andy did so it must be true .

    Ps More money for the independent BBC so they can employ top talent like me .

    Ker Ching !!!

    • 172
      Jeremy Whine says:

      I’m the top talent on the BBC!

      Tracey, who is an unemployed thicko from Walthamstow, has texted to agree; thanks Tracey! Here’s a song by Alison Moyet.. God, my show’s brilliant.

  4. 5
    Ian says:

    It’s understandable they go after Coulson – with his new role etc etc. Labour are playing a dangerous game as they wouldn’t do anything to upset Uncle Rupert when they were in power, maybe they hope to go strong now and then the new leader can row back and grovel in private. Whatever happened to tough on crime tought on the causes….

    • 48
      T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

      ….It was only a hollow soundbite.

      • 93
        The Rt. Dishon. Phoney ‘£rd-Way’ Sanctimonious Bliar, Banker Wanker & ***, emoting & wiv stupid grin says:

        Hi!!!!

        I’ve just popped by to remind you how very Very VERY WEALFY I am!!

        And to say that there’s no way I would want to intrude on the truly personal grief of my boy Dave.

        But it does remind me of my key roles in those other great griefs of The ‘People’s Princess’ and HM’s Muvva.

        Remember how central I was to everyfing?

        ‘n’ remember how honest we waz when we was Noo?

        Anyway, – must go – anuvva wealfy Noo_Lie_Bore top ranker wants to open an account wiv me bank.

        One of my Quick Response AIDs (Artificially Inseminated Richard-heads) will post shortly, saying how much like me Dave is.

    • 122
      Stan Butler says:

      I wonder if Campbell ever did any hacking whilst he was at No.10? Or when he was at the Mirror? Are Labour opening a Pandora’s box that they will wish was kept closed?

  5. 6
    Olly boy says:

    So Labour are turning their attack on the NOTW and Mr Murdoch?

    This should be fun.

  6. 9
    Spank Sinatra says:

    Coulson is toast – poor appointment in the first place. Look at his performance in run up to the election and thereafter. So labour want his head on a pole? Give it to them. Shows just how piss-poor they are at thinking things through. If he goes, the likelihood is that he will be replaced by someone more competent……..

    • 18
      GrimeLord says:

      I agree, the Coulson appointment was poor judgement.

    • 19
      podling! says:

      Good plan?? give Labour/bbc/grundion what they want! that will show them ! hey here’s an even better plan let them run the country for another 13 yrs as well that’s sticking it to um !

    • 20
      Jack says:

      Guido should take over from Coulson

      Then the Government would get its case across…

      With sparks flying throughout the Lobby and the MSM…

      That’s what we need…

  7. 12
    GrimeLord says:

    Excuse my ignorance but what is the new evidence for all this kerfuffle?

    (It can’t be that a drunk drugged up reporter who got booted out of a job then makes these allegations a few years later with nothing to back it up)

  8. 14
    Gerry Mandering says:

    More f**king navel gazing from a bunch of expense-fiddling shits that don’t give a toss about having spent all our – and our grand children’s cash.

    Time we had an election – oh’ shit – we just voted this lot in.

    ….another five years of this

  9. 15
    Bob says:

    Given Watson’s role as Minister of Mud Slinging under the appalling Brown

    He is now reaching peaks of hypocrisy rarely seen even in Westminster…

    Does he remember Red Bull and his chum Damien ?!

    And why did he leave the Government so soon afterwards ?

    And his obese alcohol filled face is simply revolting to boot…

  10. 16
    Braveheart says:

    Alistair Cambell bad, Andy Coulson good.

    ….or is that a sort of faulty logic…?

    Maybe it’s Alistair Cambell bad because he’s Labour, Andy Coulson good because he’s Tory…

    Yep..that sounds right….

  11. 17
    Jacob Stoatgobbler says:

    Let the dark servant of the great Australian American One be dragged before the judgement of his …um, er… employees? customers so that his meddling may be exposed lambasted congratulated and a apology full peerage for Lord Digger of etc etc

  12. 21
    Anonymous says:

    seriously they look like mugs

  13. 24
    Jeremy says:

    Watson calling for honesty having been the Minister for Mud Slinging under Gurning Gordon !

    You can’t make it up…

  14. 26
    Ed Balls says:

    I tttried ttto gggive my mmmate ssome advvice toddday.

    He said, “What the fuck are you talking about?”

    He obviously can’t tell fucking talk from stutter!

  15. 27
    Annie says:

    Put Watson on TV as often as possible…

    He will revolt so may people that Zanu will be fooked forever…

    • 129
      Gonk says:

      Bob Crow is an elegant thoughtful man as well.
      I’d like to see the pair of them really giving it
      both barrels for Labour.

  16. 28
    Anonymous says:

    The entire printed media needs to be looked into and given a good slap for its own good

    Can we not just shut them all down and start again?

  17. 31
    Selohesra says:

    Millibland says Coulson should go while this is investigated – in that case I accuse him of peodophillia and expect him to step down while that is investigated. It will be a strange world if any loon with an ax to grind can cause resignations and I predict none of us would last long in our jobs.

    • 113
      rocknrolla says:

      I’m sure quite a few people, including judges, accused Militwat of covering up t0rture, will he step down while being investigated?

  18. 32
    Kevin Maguire says:

    Any deaths to report today ?

    Been very quiet so far

  19. 34
    Rupert Murdoch says:

    Tom Watson. Read ALL about him this Sunday and every Sunday until he is forced to resign as an MP.

  20. 36
    Bob the Builder says:

    Let’s not foget that Toilets Maguire was in on the meeting with Damian etc for Red Bull…

    “In a private capacity”

    And was copied in on their smearing filth

    He has never answered questions on that…

    And don’t tell me he never knew aboput any telephone hacking at the Mirror…

    The Mirror made more requests to the “investigators” than the News of the Screws FFS…

  21. 38
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    So its like at school.

    One naughty boy is getting told off and whinging “but everyone else was doing it”.
    All the others sit round smirking and giggling because they haven’t been caught.

    Now this might be all anti-conservative politiking (not particularly unfair either), or rival newspapers stirring things, but your defense of coulson isn’t even “he’s innocent”. If coulson resigned, no-one would remember anything about it in a month’s time. Is he really so valuable to the conservatives that they would be damaged if he went?

    • 153
      smoggie says:

      If they gave in on this then Labour would find something else. The Tories shouldn’t make it easy for them. Welcome to the Opposition and make the fuckers work for their money.

  22. 39
    Martin Day BBC political correspondent says:

    The next leader of the Labour Party………Ed Miliband

    Ed Miliband raised more money in August than his brother David, according to Electoral Commission figures.

    Ed Miliband, who got £100,000 from the union Unite, received a total of £152,501, about £20,000 more than David.

    Fellow Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham raised £15,000 and Ed Balls £5,000.

    The fifth contender, Diane Abbott, has yet to register any donations with the Electoral Commission.

    David Miliband is still ahead in terms of the total amount of money raised. This latest figures bring his campaign’s declared total so far to over £450,000.

    • 42
      Bob the Builder says:

      That North London Synagogue is going to be rich with them two brothers…!

    • 120
      The Ape Man Commeth says:

      It’s all about money with them socialists. Money, Money, Money that’s all they ever bang on about, he’s got to much, we want more, give me a grant, millionars are capitalist scum blah blah money blah. The one time they never mention money is when it’s their own.

      • 156
        Tony Blair Millionaire says:

        I don’t give a flying fuck anymore because I’m considerably richer than yow!

      • 190
        Mad Hattie Harman's curiously cavernous front bottom says:

        All money belongs to us, the glorious socialist state, without which you cannot exist!

        Self-sufficiency is a crime! Aspiration is greed! Suckle at my socialist teat, always!

  23. 41
    You can't have it both ways says:

    You (and almost everyone else) now seem to accept that listening to answerphone messages was widespread and that “journalists left, right and centre” are lining up to confirm that loads of people did it on loads of papers.

    The big story is that Coulson is totally denying all knowledge of it and that the Met only saw fit to interview one NOTW employee when investigating the case in spite of finding 90 PIN numbers. Even a very dim reporter can see that that really stinks.

    Who gives a damn whether it’s easy to do, whether the victims are evil or whether Labour are whining about Murdoch. The big story is staring us all in the face.

    • 54
      Annie says:

      Quite agree…

      Take all the tabloids to Court…(they have all been doing it )

      Fine them millions and publish all the shit they have gathered……

      That will be sport…

    • 58
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      If coulson manages to spin his way out of this one he bloody well deserves his job.

    • 141
      smoggie says:

      Coulson’s arse is covered and why the hell would he admit to it?

    • 239
      Osama the Nazarene says:

      Hardly a story when a spotty teenager could do it! Coulson is not denying knowledge of journalists doing this he is denying knowledge that any of the NotS stories he ran were obtained in this way. Obbviously he must have known that the Mirror journos were up to this.

  24. 44
    The big D says:

    All this fake indignation from the party that bought us the phrase “Nothing to hide nothing to fear”.

    Hypocrisy wrote large. HYPOCRISY.

  25. 46
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Kill the BBC and all who sail in her !

  26. 47
    New York Times says:

    I do hope the News organisation have been bugging watson’s phone for years…

    And can now bring out all the real muck on him…

    Anonymously of course…(? through Guido !)

    Watson really does need to be taken out…

  27. 50
    GrimeLord says:

    BREAKING NEWS

    Coulson & Watson go to the same hair dressers!!!

  28. 51
    Anonymous says:

    So because the practice was widespread in Fleet Street it’s OK?

    If that’s the case then surely it means Coulson must have known what was going on and has therefore repeatedly lied about it.

  29. 52
    The Watcher says:

    Who’s the fat guy in the grey Matalan suit?

    • 194
      Fat fuck Eric Pickles, working hard to get Labour re-elected says:

      Me. When I’m pouring concrete over something scenic in a Conservative constituency, I like to dress posh.

  30. 53
    HappyUK says:

    Phone-hacking in itself is not necessarily a bad thing. If the illegal interception of voicemail messages had uncovered government corruption or financial scandals then the hackers should be applauded.

    However, pretty much every story broken by these underhand methods is worthless showbiz bilge. Who gives a toss who soap stars are screwing when politicians and Eurocrats are screwing all of us?

    The Labour Party and their BBC f**k-buddies are leaping all over this as a means of embarrassing Cameron. It won’t. They choose to be unaware that phone-hacking was endemic in the Sunday tabloids at the time. The biggest practitioners worked for Mirror Group. At the Sunday Mirror and the People it was an open secret that the Editor got most of his stories this way.

    • 242
      Helen MM says:

      I agree, I know someone who worked on the Mirror and People and told me the same. But she wouldn’t grass anyone up, shame.

  31. 55
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Who is more important , Murdoch or Mossad ?

  32. 60
    Jack says:

    Watson/Balls/McBride and the BBC versus Murdock and the tabloids !

    Who will win ?

    The gloves are really going to come off now

    And there should be blood on the walls…

    Bette than fox hunting in fact…

    • 78
      Albi Here says:

      Oh dear a bunch of stuck up nobodies taking on Murdoch,hope the have no skeletons in the cupboards,he’ll turn them from stuck up nobodies to most well known no hopers in tv and newspapers.

      • 91
        Inspector Clueless says:

        Yeah!
        As if those democratically elected nobodies have any chance of winning against the most powerful foreigner in the universe. The very idea that should even try is offensive.

        • 199
          Unsworth says:

          Well if they’ve got skeletons, Murdoch knows about them. Maybe you’re saying that skeletons notwithstanding they should always continue as elected MPs. Wonder what the electorate might think of that.

          Anyway, Watson has signed his own death warrant.

  33. 61
    Anonymous says:

    “Given journalists left, right and centre are openly admitting, sometimes live on TV, that the practice of listening to other people’s answer-phone messages was widespread, you must wonder how papers like the Observer and the Mirror are justifying their Coulson onslaught”

    Actually, given how widespread the practice was, what I’m wondering is

    1. how Coulson can deny he knew anything about it.

    2. how anyone can pretend to believe him.

    • 86
      You can't have it both ways says:

      Precisely.

      Proving that the PM’s head media man lied to a parliamentary committee would surely get him the bullet.

      The committer didn’t believe him but couldn’t do anything about it (as we heard in the debate today). I guess the PM believed him because he’s gullible.

      But why did the Met believe him?

  34. 62
    Tom Waston says:

    Why is this not tagged totty watch Guido ?

  35. 65
    Can't remember my moniker says:

    Anyone know when Tom Watson is set to explode from one of his self-righteous, kerosene fuelled outbursts?

  36. 68
    bergen says:

    On the basis that Murdoch has used his papers to back the party that has won every General Election for over 30 years,it seems to be a very”brave”decision to pick a fight with him.

  37. 70
    Simon says:

    Watson will win the next Election for the Coalition by himself

    Just show that face on the TV often enough…

    aaaag…

  38. 71
    Stuck-Record says:

    All that’s needed is a drin-sodden ex-employee of the Mirror or Guardian (or, God forbid, the LABOUR party) to admit they saw someone do it and it’s GAME OVER.

    Anyone remember Tom Watson and dirty tricks?

  39. 76
    Anonymous says:

    A Labour supporter should have advised Dave to employ Andy! Couldn’t have found a worst candidate.

  40. 79
    Ed Balls Public Relations says:

    Ed Balls isn’t known as Ringo Starr for nothing !!!

    What a bizarre yet wonderful picture of @edballsmp http://yfrog.com/mjvohdj

  41. 81
    Grumpy Old Man says:

    The big story should include a chapter on Murdoch’s war to the death with the Progessive flagship the NYT and the indecent haste of the Progessive Labour Party to be Obama’s poodles, The fact that Obama is set to lose big in November and is desperately trying to rally Democrat support by manufacturing a “Struggle” has, of course absolutely nothing to do with the outcry by Labour MP’s. Neither has the strenuous attempts of DeadNuLabour to divert attention to the odd goings-on in their Parteh Leader Election at all connected with this embroglio.

  42. 84
    Sue Perrin-Junsham says:

    Dumbfucks never heard of a PIN number?
    The wireless networks are obvoiusly vunlerable, hence the need for security.
    Must be easy to hack emails on a wireless network n’est pas?

  43. 85
    Senator Bloodn' Gore says:

    Guido, I just love that Screw Fix advert – perfect.

  44. 87
    the beast of clerkenwell says:

    I wonder just what runs through the mind of Tom Watsons GP whenever that puce faced, porcine oaf enters the surgery and requires a chair for each buttocks and asks for a health check
    The love interest of The Beast is a Dr, she took one look at that picture and said
    “Dead within 5 years”
    “Diabetes, liver, heart, stroke”
    “probably smokes, heavy drinker”
    So that’s one thing we have to look forward to

  45. 88
    daveyone1 says:

    I don’t think Murdoch could give a 4X!

  46. 90
    streamfisher says:

    I don’t think Mr Murdoch will be quaking in his boots over this, if it ever came to pass (doubtful, all piss and wind as usual) these are what can only be described as show trials, reminiscent of the days of Stalin but without any ability to drag the ‘enemy of the state’ up against a wall afterwards and put a bullet in his head.
    I think they should be more concerned about things like Blackberry (Obummer likes his) and the release of code by them under pressure by Islamic countries to track or block individuals input. We have seen similar things with Google in China. Nobody really gives a fuck about some pathetic M.P screaming about his right to privacy, what was the mantra given to us over I.D cards “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”. Best joke of the lot Gordon (Gordon who?) said he wanted to go into voluntary work, this turns out to be a chance to tamper with the WWW if he got the chance, that K*nt couldn’t even compose a predictive text message, get real arseholes!.
    Voicemail, FFS, Iron horse breathe fire.

  47. 99
    RING-A-RIDE says:

    I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WATSONS LAST INDIAN TAKEAWAY ORDER

    I BET HE EATS FATTY FOOD

  48. 101
    Diane Slackbutt says:

    Everyone is forgetting me at this crucial juncture. I am launching my final part of the race for leadership battle..

    Here is my new slogan!

    Vote 4 me – rice an’ pea!

  49. 108
    The Ape Man Commeth says:

    This Coulson onslaught just goes to show how dangerous Lieboore, err I mean, the bbc, can be in opposition.

    • 147
      U Couldn'T Makeitup says:

      Cash for honours
      Formula 1 Ecclestone
      Passports
      New Labour donorgate and Mr H Harman.
      David Kelly
      Dodgy dossier
      Labour MPs who did not and still do not turn au at the HoC
      Spend, spend, spend
      Electoral fraud
      Illegal wars
      … the lest is endless.

      But instead we are chasing a story with no legs or value for the public.

      The country is becoming a joke.

  50. 111
    Penfold says:

    The Left have never allowed hypocrisy or the facts to get in the way of a good rant, or attempt to make capital.

    All the media boys and girls knew exactly how the hacking was done and lets be candid, ALL the political parties gained in some way.

    This is not a story, its not even retributive justice. It’s point scoring and trying to score scalps.

    Jack Straw had the opportunity to do something, he did not. Well you don’t get a second bite at the cherry just because Coulson’s good at his job and Labour him neutralised.

    They really are a bunch of completely cretinous morons.

    As for the picture on the right of the header, so apposite, T(om) Wat(son).

    • 115
      The Man of Straw says:

      I BEG YOUR PARDON!!!!

      I have NEVER bitten anybody’s cherry!!

      Honest guv!

      Arsk anywun!

    • 177
      Cry Havoc ! Let loose the Dogs of War(er sort of) says:

      Interesting report on BBC by Gary Donohue who went through the ramifications and was finally asked by newscaster “But does this resonate with the general public ? Are they concerned at all or is it just confined to the Westminster Bubble?”

      Gary’s answer was succinct “Er we don’t know”

  51. 114
    Lord Prescott of Humbermouth says:

    Ashcroft!

    • 135
      streamfisher says:

      I had a parrot and it did spake Ashcroft (scuttle, preen).

    • 208
      My Lord Prezza of Scoff, Noo_Lie_Bore Illumination & Lecher, commenting on the news says:

      Reckon as ‘ow I’ll just sit ‘ere an’ eet mebagachips.

      oi floted oop T’hames wunce!

  52. 121
    Malcolm Redfellow says:

    I’ve argued elsewhere - hopelessly, I know – that this is a moment of opportunity for Cameron.

    Coulson will have to go, sooner or later. Cameron could yet come out of this smelling of violets, and doing us all a favour.

    As I’ve argued there, there are two different contexts:

    One (which sparked the re-ignition) is the struggle between the NYT and the newly-Murdochified WSJ for bragging rights across the tri-State region.

    The other is whether UK politics continue to be Berlusconied by the Murdoch media’s pernicious stranglehold. What the headline piece on this thread omits is that where Murdoch leads, the rest of the press have to follow. The root of evil does lie in Wapping.

    Cameron should be happy to open the latter issue as widely as possible. He may lose the Murdoch Good-Housekeeping-Seal-of-Approval (which has nowhere else to be conferred, anyway). On the other hand, with a single bound Our Hero is free to be his own man: statesmanship and a niche in history instantly guaranteed.

    Just now, I caught John Whittingdale MP responding to the reference to the Committee of Privileges. I shall look for the text on Hansard tomorrow: seemed a reasonable explication of where we are.

  53. 132
    Lower than me nan's jugs says:

    If they were really as concerned as they are pretending to be then they wouldn’t be focussing their fire on just one publication…

    I thought Murdo owned many more than one publication.

  54. 134
    Australians don't give a XXXX says:

    Throw another Koran on the barbie!

  55. 136

    Murdoch backs popular winners. The coalition are currently in the lead and hence get his backing but their position on the gold medal podium is nowhere near as secure as Mrs Thatcher’s and Mr Blair’s were. Ergo Murdoch’s support for it must be equivocal to say the least.

    This being the case, is now really a clever time for the socialists to go pissing off Rupert?

    • 158
      Anonymous says:

      Murdoch’s getting old.

      • 205
        Unsworth says:

        Yes, and old men in a hurry are dangerous. And, of course, you’re ignoring the dynasty.

      • 207
        Tessa Tickles says:

        It would be fucking scary if he was getting young.

      • 250

        What’s that got to do withthe price of eggs? If anything it makes my point even more pertinent.

        Powerful old guys dislike being dissed even more than young ones. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but oldsters know they haven’t got time to let things cool down – they go for the jugular hard, fast and nasty.

        As I say, the socilaists appear to be acting very unwisely. Then again, they are socialists so what else can we expect.

  56. 143
    smoggie says:

    Watson has more chance of getting Gordon Brown called to Parliament “to answer for himself” than Rupert.

  57. 148
    Watt Tyler says:

    KNOW YOUR ENEMY: http://eotp.org/

    Keep criminals out of politics

  58. 151
    Bastards to a man says:

    who gives a fuck. I want all mp’s swinging from lamposts also thier wives and kids and gran kids.

  59. 154
    Tom (fat bastard) Watson MP says:

    Rupert Murdoch is a miserable pip squeak of a man

  60. 155

    guido

    are you really that thick in the head as well as in the waist (mushroom and garlic puff boy)

    Murdoch has been running this country since maggie decided he could. In the meantime he can hide the real power by pretending that his rags are concerned with public shock about footbllaars shagging and roasting. Get with the real world on

    http://www.swingingheaven.com 15. million members plus
    craigslist – for westminster and city cock suckers

    either that or go back to your fat boy pies which seem to at least produce enough bile to be a “respected” BLOGGER (interesting word , blog, uuuurk

    • 167
      concrete pump says:

      You’ve fucking lost it thumper.

      • 206

        i know it was a good lunch but my point is

        we all love sex with loads of variation
        who cares if hague is an uphill gardner
        who cares if nadine dorries is a doris
        who cares if nick clegg has klinker
        dennis skinner lives in the same block of flats in westminster as my inlaws. loads of beeny hill type birds on his arm – who cares?

        this childish blog full of wankers most of who suck cock in gay saunas is typical of the little frustrated office worker with a wife that has a bigger cock (in her brain) than they have in their trousers.

        • 236
          Can't remember my moniker says:

          You must have scored some bad dope, Thumper. You are normally pretty well A1.

  61. 157

    by the way isnt marvellous that the “credible” stories produced by NOTW all come from the fake sheikh.

    what a fucking world! Mazhar Mahommod is the STIG.

    I love the way they use a raghead name for a Hunt that takes whores, drugs and gambling seriously enough as a pastimes to then pretend to take the moral high ground

  62. 159

    murdoch is also a nonce

  63. 163
    Anonymous says:

    It seems that Labour have been trying to prevent the Tory government from holding any serious investigation into the illegalities they committed while in office (which, in one case, I know they were going to). It is therefore possible that, as Labour know where the bodies are buried, this phone hacking outrage was confected as a means and opportunity to blackmail the government.

    Now that the Tories have agreed to a new inquiry, we could also suspect that this was the result of a quid pro quo compromise with Labour.

  64. 168
    annoyed with bloody mp's says:

    Politicians NEVER CHANGE, Soldiers dying in Afghanistan, jobs going left right and centre the country facing a financial crisis, guess what, MP’s waste parliamentary time debating who knew what about MP’s who maybe had their phones hacked 7 years ago.

    If you are listening as you always claim, what about the here and now.

    Same old same old.

    If you want to go back and re-look at something,how about another enquiry into the expenses scandal, a deeper look, how the Met only charged a handful beggars belief, now that really would go down well with the general public.

    Stop playing point scoring games and sort the bloody country out.

    ZERO TOLERANCE TOWARDS EXPENSE FIDDLERS……………….

  65. 169
    GrimeLord says:

    This from Laura Kuenssberg

    “BBC political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg said although no new information had come to light, Labour wanted to keep the story in the news to make life as awkward as possible for the government.”

    With insight like that she won’t do well in the BBC.

  66. 170

    as you can tell my lunch of 1 martini
    2 glasses of champagne
    vichysoisse
    foie gras
    lobster salad with an english sauv blanc
    2 Darroze armagnacs
    I small espresso
    and 2 lines of the best marching

    I am in fine but bitter fettle

  67. 173

    I hope GF, enjoyed his mushroom and garlic puffs with a glass of lambrini, a fag (cigarette) and a nescafe (by the way dont chop the nescafe out!)

  68. 174
    Can't remember my moniker says:

    Ellie Gellard taking dic from Ed:

    http://tinyurl.com/35njsvy

  69. 175
    Gordon Brown says:

    I phoned Andy Coulson after he resigned from NOTW to tell him he’d done the honourable thing and that he would go on to do worthwhile work. No wonder the Labour frontbench looked embarrassed when Mr Clegg revealed this yesterday. Even out of power, I’ve embarrassed my party yet again.

  70. 178

    Steven Purcell, name ring a bell Mr Tom (beetroot head) Watson?

  71. 180
    BillyBob - Charity begins at the swimming pool !! says:

    Burn baby burn !!

    • 233
      BillyBob - Charity begins at the swimming pool !! says:

      Oops sorry meant to say… the book that weirdos read !!

  72. 181
    Mr Politically Incorrect says:

    Isn’t that evil fat Hunt Tom Watson overdue a myocardial infarction? I hope the Murdoch papers do some digging on the obese Hunt and find something juicy on him. As long as it’s not a sex scandal. I don’t think there’s any mind bleach that could eliminate a sexual scenario involving Tom Fatson.

  73. 185
    NOTW Hack says:

    I can exclusively reveal that David Cameron has shared a Twin Room with his SpAd in a French Hotel room whilst on Fact finding mission to Toulon, S France. We cannot reveal our sources but needless to say the practice of listening to ones Answer phone messages can be very revealing to us Hacks.
    The local French silk scarf retailers have been very busy lately here in Toulon.
    There were signs of skid marks on the wooden floor where the beds had been pushed together and furniture had been rearranged. Also the linen cupboard had be rummaged through, so Madame Lefont the Hotel de Nord manageress confirmed. “You English Tory’s are all gay she confirmed, and we are fed oop wiv Ze furniture rearrangements, why don’t you just book Ze Double room, qui?

    Now all I have to do is run this scoop past the NOTW Editor and I’m Famous.

    • 191

      most notw and sun hacks i know get free charlie, free hookers and free food.

      have you ever seen the state of that Hunt that is the fake sheiks researcher

      no conflicts of interest there then

  74. 187
    Tom Watson MP is dead says:

    Unfortunately it’s the wrong Tom Watson MP. This one died in 1887.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Watson_(Ilkeston_MP)

  75. 201
    Chuckles Davenny says:

    I would like to fill Tom Watson’s belly button with BBQ sauce and dip my McNuggets in.

  76. 214
    NotW_scumbag says:

    Maybe they were all doing it , but these are the ones in the frame at the moment.

    Why it’s not going away :

    http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/

  77. 215
    Warning to The Dead Tree Press says:

    Be Careful What You Wish For !

  78. 216
    Dave Camerons Dead Dad says:

    I’m still dead

    • 220
      Anonymus says:

      You are still the trunt

    • 232
      Anon says:

      Oh dear, it’s you again. You just can’t give it a break, can you?

      I have one word foy you: turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home—perhaps; setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness, towards his empty and desolate station. I did not know the motive. Perhaps he was just simply a fine fellow who stuck to his work for its own sake. His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was ‘that man.’ The half-caste, who, as far as I could see, had conducted a difficult trip with great prudence and pluck, was invariably alluded to as ‘that scoundrel.’ The ‘scoundrel’ had reported that the ‘man’ had been very ill—had recovered imperfectly. . . . The two below me moved away then a few paces, and strolled back and forth at some little distance. I heard: ‘Military post—doctor—two hundred miles—quite alone now—unavoidable delays—nine months—no news—strange rumors.’ They approached again, just as the manager was saying, ‘No one, as far as I know, unless a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.’ Who was it they were talking about now? I gathered in snatches that this was some man supposed to be in Kurtz’s district, and of whom the manager did not approve. ‘We will not be free from unfair competition till one of these fellows is hanged for an example,’ he said. ‘Certainly,’ grunted the other; ‘get him hanged! Why not? Anything—anything can be done in this country. That’s what I say; nobody here, you understand, here, can endanger your position. And why? You stand the climate—you outlast them all. The danger is in Europe; but there before I left I took care to—’ They moved off and whispered, then their voices rose again. ‘The extraordinary series of delays is not my fault. I did my possible.’ The fat man sighed, ‘Very sad.’ ‘And the pestiferous absurdity of his talk,’ continued the other; ‘he bothered me enough when he was here. “Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a center for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.” Conceive you—that ass! And he wants to be manager! No, it’s—’ Here he got choked by excessive indignation, and I lifted my head the least bit. I was surprised to see how near they were—right under me. I could have spat upon their hats. They were looking on the ground, absorbed in

  79. 218
    Charles Lynton says:

    Ha, ha, ha, ha…

    Just watching Kaye Burley on Sky making a complete Hoon of herself trying to get a former NotW hack (Paul McMullen) to say Coulson knew about the hacking issue – he is telling her it’s b*llocks – she obviously expected him to be a compliant meat-puppet.

    Silly cow…

  80. 221
    Tom Watson says:

    My obesity is tax-payer funded. HaHaHaHa!!!

    Right, off for a skip of chips and a wank with my greasy chip fat hand.

  81. 227
    Anonymous says:

    Why does no one ever ask why Cameron appointed Coulson in the first place?
    The only answer that makes sense is Murdoch asked him to (when Freud flew Cameron out to meet Murdoch).
    In which case, forget the Guardian and the BBC, everybody should press for Coulson’s sacking in order to poke Murdoch in the eye for once.

    Tony

  82. 246
    Fatso Watson says:

    Fatso Watson is playing with fire messing with Murdoch. Murdoch eats Socialists for breakfast. When it is Fatso Watson, Murdoch will be feasting on him for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper for a good few months. Yum!

  83. 249
    Anonymous says:

    Will someone please tell me what purpose our contemptible MPs serve? Lying, money grabbing scum the lot of them.
    At least we have a choice whether to pay the News of the World but MPs, they just rob us blind!

  84. 252
    Jacqueline Jill Smith says:

    If it is a problem now why was it not a problem when Labour were in government a few short months ago? I am confused

  85. 254
    Elementary my dear Watson says:

    Your picture of Watson is excellent. it shows him to be exactly what he is. A bilious, humourless, splenetic and frothing fat lefty apparatchik fuckwipe. Looks like he’s about to pop a main vein, such is his demagogic orgasm of faux hypocrisy. Wanker.



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