+ + + Gordon Claims Bank Account and Phone Hacked + + +
According to the Indy. Believed to be accusing the Sunday Times. Awaiting evidence, but it would fit with his violent hatred mobile phones…
Breaking…
UPDATE: Accusations seem to be focused around Brown’s son Fraser who has cystic fibrosis. A fact the Sunday Times assertained and put to the then Chancellor, and appeared later in The Sun…
UPDATE II: Surprise, surprise, Gordon is working with The Guardian. They report:
“• Scotland Yard has discovered references to both Brown and his wife, Sarah, in paperwork seized from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who specialised in phone hacking for the News of the World
• Abbey National bank found evidence suggestion that a “blagger” acting for the Sunday Times on six occasions posed as Brown and gained details from his account,
• Brown’s London lawyers, Allen & Overy, were tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times
• Details from his infant son’s medical records were obtained by the Sun, who published a story about the child’s serious illness.”
Developing…
UPDATE III: Hunt refers the bid to the Competition Commission as Murdoch signals temporary retreat.
perhaps it was Tom Baldwin who did it???
Get the popcorn. Is Gordon about to claim that someone from NI misused his bank details? H mmmmm
It looks like MI5 and MI6 should start dealing with Rupert and his gang.
Fat lot of good mi5/6 can do! If the then Chancellors security is compromised by a two penny hack and private dick what use are they!
I’m cute.
Head of States security is compromised as well. Its its becoming a national security issue. I am sure MI5, MI6 and other services can act on their own when national security compromised. It becomes their responsibility when the PM Cameron lost control of national security.
Despite what you think of Brown it’s pretty despicable that the hacking relates to his son. How would Dave feel if his phone was hacked when his little son was dying?
Doesn’t surprise me that it’s the Sunday Times, another of Britain’s great papers brought low by being a Murdoch rag.
It’s also quite scary how easily people can access your bank account. It’s probably much easier to get into our accounts than high profile peoples.
Brown was so disgusted by this story he threw Rebekah a birthday party AFTER she printed the story.
MI5 and MI6/GCHQ just a lot of sissy cross dressers who get themselves stuck in a large leather hold all as soon as things turn nasty in my experience. All right for a bit of entertainment but you wouldn’t rely on them in action. Just channel all politicos comms through Norwood we’ll sort out for you.
The same way they dealt with me?
I thought you topped yourself after lying to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee?
Still Cameron and other ministers might be talking and getting advice from Brooks, James and Rupert, someone should ask the question.
So fucking what? Gordon fucking brown misused the whole UK’s ‘bank details’ and spent all of our money very badly on all sorts of jerrymandering stuff that no-one but fucking new fucking liebore think is worth any fucking thing.
I am a bit niggled by Brown.
You know what they say,
‘Just because you are paranoid (and a raving madman) doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you.
Though in the list of people hacked so far, Brown is one of the least significant.
Somewhere below the downing street cat.
But probably above the mice.
W.W.
Gordon owns-up to being so effing dim that he didn’t figure to change from the default pin-code for his voice-mail. He is quite happy to abuse his son, by convincing the boy to become a “victim”.
Fuck you- denigrating us in such a manner.
Eeeeck. Eeeeck.
Surely no one would ever leave him a message?
Gordon claims bank account hacked – is that where the hoon is alleging all the fecking money went? He shiuld be on trial for treason, with mitigation for his role in keeping Bliar from bouncing us into the Euro disaster zone…
Sky saying it was when he was Chancellor. So why didn’t he come out with the news then?
Seems to me he is indulging in kicking a man when he is down
This is clear evidence that The Labour Government knew full well what News International were up to. So why didnt Brown do anything about it at the time? No matter how you look at it the evidence mounts that Labour were engaged in a cover up .
Hmm, did Labour also know Plod was selling info to the Screws incl. Royal family movements ? Looks like the MP needs a thorough purge.
Combined bowel irrigation, they will probably much better after that.
Tessa Jowell admitted to Brillo that The Labour Government did know what was going on and conceeded that they should have done something about it but didnt. She could give no explanation as to why they didnt. The case for the prosecution rests.
I keep repeating the point that Bryant did not report RB to the police when she admitting making payments in 2003.
Its very odd.
Almost as if both parties were in stalemate with hands grasped tightly around each other’s testicles.
They were all too scared.
After NI’s coverage of Brown during the run up to the elections, I don’t fucking blame him.
You mean Sky news broadcasting his off camera comments about Mrs Duffy?
Is this what it’s all about? Labour’s revenge for Bigotedwoman-Gate?
No silly boy it is boardering on nasty part of this mess a very ill child’s details have been hacked, anyone hacking Murdoch’s family
Well Nemo. Sarah was so upset about it that she gave Brooks a slumber party at chequers and arranged her 40th Birthday do. Something doesn’t add up here do it?
2006 though. Wasn’t it only in 2009 that the sun officially decided to go against labour?
That actually makes a very simple “keep the sun (etc) on our side” explanation possible.
and if he was aware of what they were up to (and what is alledged is deeply personal to him and his wife) why did he and his wife continue to be buddies – something that no-one would have done.
BTW – I didn’t hear BBC News tell viewers that the Browns were friends with Becky – they only mentioned Cameron being friends and then there was a perfunctory reference to Bliar.
if Brown had acted – milly and the troops parents would have been spared
But we know he DID NOT ACT!
Now question is why – either incompetant or he covering-up something BIGGER!!!!!!!
In October 2006, the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, contacted the Browns to tell them that they had obtained details from the medical file of their four-month-old son, Fraser, which revealed that the boy was suffering from cystic fibrosis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-news-international-gordon-brown
So why wait until 2011 to do something about it?
I’m sure newspapers keep stories in the back pocket for dry weeks when celebrity/political gossip is short.
Selling papers is the No.1 priority. Why should they care about the people they gossip about.
And one year later Sarah invited Rebekah to a slumber party at Chequers?
Mmmm Red Bush
MMMMM Brown Gordon an idiot is he MMMMMMMM
He wanted the sympathy vote!
Well if the Guardian are on it, it will probably turn out to be true, like the last lot of allegations that you ignored Guido. You fat catholic wanker.
Murdoch must certain that the BSkyB deal were go ahead now Jonah is an opponent.
Aww bless, it has to bring sectarianism into the mix.
I think Sarah Teather sums up all the hot air from Labour…
Nice pair, though. I would.
If you ‘would’, you need help. And a lot of it.
W.W.
Personally I would rather have had Murdoch as PM rather than Gordon F Brown. Brown is soooo full of shit. He actually turned up to my wedding. Uggghhh…
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO HASN’T BEEN HACKED?
my teno is 00334 33377
my bank acc is 53 89 78 – 224819999
How do I sue NI ?
All I can say is. Gordon certainly knows how to bear a grudge.
Mostly against members of his own party.
Guido–time to raise the issue of Brown’s work record over the last 14 months. How much has he been paid+any expenses divided by the number of times his scummy mug has poisoned the HoC since he was booted out.
Since he has broken cover with talk of scandal its time to hit back.
This is fast becoming a single issue blog, very lazy.
Something needs to be done about Milipede, sharpish.
I am becoming very puzzled
If I were to call a Packistani a Packi I would be imedeatly arrested for it is against the law. However as I understand it Murdoc’s son admitts on TV that he paid a large sum of money to someone to keep their mouths shut over alledged hacking. What has happened to him NOTHING. If this is trueare his actions against the law or does the law not aply to certain sections of society
I’m Off – U wont miss me but I fink U will find it is a sad 2 B out in the cold
It started in America
Suprised his answrphone worked as it was always being chucked!
Sorry this was an arse wipe comment and I should not have made it.
Is that why Labour ran out of the country’s money – someone hacked our bank account? – maybe it wasn’t Gordon’s fault afterall
Phone or story breaking?
Both
Heartbreaking!!
Gordon claims to have abolished boom n bust
“but it would fit with his violent hatred mobile phones…”
Come again?
I’m a hacking victim too, Gordon Brown to announce
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/im-a-hacking-victim-too-gordon-brown-to-announce-2311980.html
Lizzie Borden’s parents were hacking victims too
+++Gordon Brown Claims Sunday Times Hacked into Bank of England and sold UK Gold at Fucking stupid price after telling the rest of the Market they were going to do it.+++
Twat!
The UK terror threat level is being reduced from “severe” to “substantial”, the home secretary has announced.
Be afraid
Surprise, surprise.
Sounds very much like diversionary tactics to me.
Terra-liszt alert.
Be very afraid
FFS
He was part of a goverment that snooped into our e-mails, bank accounts, phone records .
Do not forget that!
Well said Billy. Leiber has developed convenient amnesia all of a sudden. What a pile of shite they are.
That’s unfair to shit . At least shit is good for the garden
Perhaps you are right, but what did his son do? Why would anyone need to know about the child’s health?
Don’t forget their plans to put our medical records into a database that leaks like a sieve & VIP/politicians all given extra security
The disaster that destroyed the U.K.; I am supposed to feel the slightest sympathy!!!!!
Nope, and I don’t either.
Nor me. McRuin sold off our gold, nicked our pension money and set the country up for the worst bust for years. Do I feel one bit of sympathy for the fool, my arse I do.
On top of that, he and Blair took us into an unnecessary war, underfunded, under equipped with kit so useless that it is a wonder the British Army ever worked and did the good job it did. No radios, no effective armoured vehicles, not enough body armour, not enough small arms ammunition, crap bomb detector kit and much more that caused so many deaths yet they still sit back knowing that their incompetence that caused our soldiers deaths will never be visited on them in the form of an enquiry. Bastards.
What could McRuin, the multi millionaire socialist, have to hide?
Remember the slush fund in the notebook?
Brown complaining about dirty tricks?
Poor lamb.
He probably gave the details to a Nigerian , who claimed to be a former Chief Ministers son needing to transfer some funds.
And transfer they did, record breaking £4Trillion to the Labour bankers and Labour layabout voters.
He does not know how to use a mobile phone!
http://horsforthletdownbyleeds.blogspot.com/
Sadly Gordon Brown hacked everyone’s bank accounts.
Plus people not born yet.
Indeed.
There are British children who are yet born who will find that Gordon Brown raided their bank accounts before they were even conceived.
The man should be in prison for gross incompetence
Sophie, bearing in mind how the idiots of the left still blame MT, after twenty years since she left office – indeed, the mere mention of the name Thatcher will get any wet behind the ears and in the pants lefty student high marks in a viva – do you think that there will be people in twenty or thirty, or EVEN 40, years time invoking the dreaded name of BROWN, as being the source of all the troubles they suffer still?
Just a thought….
The huhne raped a lot of pensions as well, let us not forget. The old, the young and the unborn, were all made his victims.
Brown raid thousands from all our bank accounts.
You missed out all those long dead bank accounts that had 50p or a few quid in,I wonder how much Brown lifted out of them.
I’m guessing 50p or a few quid
Eye woz hakked >:(
I take it was when he was PM – so, when exactly did this happen? Did he report it ? and was anything done about it?
Accomplice after the fact.
Gordon also claimed that he abolished boom and bust
Gordon also claimed he had saved the world
Gordon also claimed the abolition of the 10% tax rate would not harm anyone
Gordon also claimed he did not know what Damian Mcbride was doing
Gordon also claimed Tax cuts take money out of the econemy.
you should always give people a second chance – it’s the right thing to do
So – Gordon Brown’s bank account being hacked is an unwarranted invasion of privacy, but when the Tory Party account was hacked by Tom Baldwin “there was massive public interest.” (RedED, today’s Labourgraph)
Hypocrisy – it’s in Labour’s DNA.
I wonder if Damian Green feels the same way?
Reminds me of the way the BBC and Guardian managed to make a story out of Osborne on the yacht while ignoring completely that Mandelslime was on the same boat at the same time.
All this stuff happened under the new labour reign of terror, they did nothing. Their current joke of a leader has hired Baldwin. Yet the BBC don’t care. They really have no shame anymore.
And for the record, regardless of how abhorrent the actions of the news of the world were they were like saints compared to what blair, brown, mandelslime and the rest did to our country. Wars, destruction of privacy and civil liberties, mass immigration for electoral gain, selling us out even further to the EU.
I know.
Let’s complain about getting our phones hacked. Doesn’t matter that it happened years ago. It’ll take the heat off the fact that I’ve not been in the House lately.
Gordon also claimed he never used his family as props.
Because Gordon they’re not !!
He used all our money instead.
but it is the nasty tories who should have cleared up NI even though labour were in government at the time. it is not as if they have had anything else to concentrate on like the economy, immigration,education,Europe………
A chancellor/ PM with a hackable phone and easily accessible personal info?
Perhaps he should have been paying MI5/ GCHQ more…
With the amount of phones he’s supposed to have thrown at the wall, I’m surprised they could keep up with his numbers.
Gordon’s not very good with numbers.
Not including number 2s surely?
I said ‘I’ll be back’
Good news really, I mean that if McRuin gets involved the “Jonah curse” will strike and the Liebour party will have to deal with the fall out.
It’s all good riding the wave of publicity now but is Milli and his gang sure they’re whiter than white?! Even with the support of the BBC/Guardian axis of lefties I’d be carefull throwing this amount of mud about chasing cheap headlines.
Murdoch loath him or like him will have the last laugh, he always has.
errrrrr I doudt if Murdoch will have the last laugh this time
Robert Maxwell fell off a boat so anything’s possible.
Did he….are you sure?
Murdoch may not be ‘Mr Nice Guy’ but at least he didn’t steal from his readers pensions unlike Captain Bobbing-in-the-Adriatic Maxwell did.
No. Murdoch will play the long game on this one and have his revenge.
can’t leave it too long, the old cun*t’s 80.
one more big facefull of chinky and he might keel over
Could be true. I think the Baldwin case, assuming Ashcroft has the evidence, will end up blowing up big time in retarEd’s face given his sanctimonious behaviour these last few days. The curse of the one-eyed son of the manse – i doubt Labour will ever be free of it.
Gordon also claimed for Sky Sports on expenses.
I was wondering why rent a gob Daniel Fu*ckastien, from The Times, had been soooo quiet over the past week…..Oh Dear
Fuck off
Hello Sybil….Enjoying power …….LOL…Well for now anyway
You don’t have any power. Or are you so badly educated that you have missed out a question mark?
LOL. Spelling and Grammer Nazi…. The last bastion once the argument has been lost.
Hyena Boy………Days are Numbered
Cameron employed Coulson, big fucking deal.
Labour had many years to sort out this mess, but as usual the gutless and spineless Party ducked it, just like they duck every other difficult decision in case they annoy anyone that might be foolish enough to vote for them.
just like they duck every other difficult decision in case they annoy anyone that might be foolish enough to vote for them.
Labour don’t give a damn about the voters – their fealty is taken as read.
It’s Labour’s Paymasters that they don’t want to offend…
Jonty, please let the old lady behind you have a go on the internet.
Its her library too you know.
Ed Balls seems to have temporarily taken a vow of silence too. Let’s hope it’s nothing terminal.
Ed Balls calculates Murdoch will still be making Kings in 2 years time, Millipede has calculated he is finished, be interesting to see who is correct, worth bearing in mind the ballbag is 80 now too.
Shurely “something terminal” ?
I was beginning to think News Intl were scum… but I’m warming to them now.
Senior Labour figures also strongly suspect that a news organisation broke the law to obtain the emails that led to the resignation in April 2009 of Brown’s close aide Damian McBride. The emails, which disclosed a scheme to smear Tory MPs, had been exchanged between McBride and a Labour party activist, Derek Draper. The Labour figures believe that the emails were hacked from Draper’s computer and that their contents were then sent to the political blogger Guido Fawkes, whose stories were then followed by Fleet Street.
Sounds fiar enough to me.
The Labour goverment wanted accses to all our personal records and e-mail etc.
so they are trying to turn dolly and mcbride into victims now. priceless. this really is going to blow up in labour’s faces. murdoch will be playing the long game….
Good investigative journalism that. It exposed the poison at the heart of Labour and resulted in a couple of scumbags being brought down.
Worthy of an award if you ask me.
The slate will have been wiped clean since them,
I am sure that there said “purchase” is with somebody’s files.
Sky reporting that News Corp is taking the deal with the government off the table and will see them in court. Bearing in mind the EU has already given the green light.
Can’t see Chavs giving up their Sky TV but Gordon is now implicating the sun in hacking his son’s medical records and that could well hurt Sun sales.
Murdoch knows who runs the UK, and its not Cameron.
sssh, don’t tell dave – he’s trying to keep up appearances.
in dave’s case, the appearance of being a clueless cun*t
One thing that I do not understand is that the Guardian is busy exposing contacts between the NotW and police officers but is quoting from police evidence so presumably they are also getting leaks from police officers?
So what?
So what exactly did he do about all of this when he entered Downing Street in 2007? Other than schmoozing with Brooks when any parent other than a politician would have punched her lights out?
So the phone throwing had nothing to do with temper but was simply a counter- surveillance technique.
I think some of you owe him in apology.
(cuttle) (squint) NICETRYPUNK!!! (crest) (sploot)
Grauniad: “Senior Labour figures also strongly suspect that a news organisation broke the law to obtain the emails that led to the resignation in April 2009 of Brown’s close aide Damian McBride. The emails, which disclosed a scheme to smear Tory MPs, had been exchanged between McBride and a Labour party activist, Derek Draper. The Labour figures believe that the emails were hacked from Draper’s computer and that their contents were then sent to the political blogger Guido Fawkes, whose stories were then followed by Fleet Street.”
Whoops! Looks like someone had better make sure that they’re legally covered.
They’re saying you’re too lazy to do your own hacking?
You should pretend to sue.
It was ‘in the public interest’, so there is legal cover, as I understand it.
Given that McBride and Draper were making things up about senior politicians, or in one case, the wife of a senior politician, this is a pretty good example of why a free press is so essential. That’s not politics, it’s libel.
Let’s just suppose for a minute that senior aides to the Conservative party were plotting to make things up about Labour politicians and their spouses, and leak them to the press to discredit the Labour party in the minds of voters. Let’s suppose a Mirror or Guardian journo ‘obtained’ emails hacked from those aides’ computers, and published them. The political left would regard that as being in the public interest – a fine example of jounalism acting in the best interests of fairness and justice, wouldn’t they?
So – we need a free press – don’t we?
That would be arguable had they published the libels. As it was, this was a private exchange which Guido published in return (he hoped) for payment.
Don’t wriggle, Jimmy. The point is that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Some politicians ans political activists are venal and corrupt. The free press acts in the public interest when it exposes them. Or are you arguing that right wing corruption and wrongdoing should be exposed, but left wing corruption and wrongdoing shouldn’t?
I’m not wriggling at all. Publication or evidence of intention to publish by either would make it public interest, put private gossip, however tasteless, is just that. Even pols can have a private life. Nothing to do with left and right.
So what you’re saying is that if a Conservative party activist or activists had fabricated stories about Labour politicians with the intention of planting them with friendly journalists, that would be wrong, but if McBride and Draper did the same about Conservative politicians, it would be ‘private gossip’.
Think that’s called ‘hypocricy’, Jimmy.
You misunderstand. If they had that intent yes, if not no.
So if Conservative activists made up stories about Labour politicians, and swapped emails about them with no intention to publish, and the press got hold of those emails and published, that would be wholly wrong, and you’d condemn it, would you? You’d say that as they claimed to have no intention to publish, the press ‘hacking’ would be unacceptable?
I think you’ve got it.
Seriously, do you think if some tory SPAD had forwarded the Gordon/rockinghorse meme for example that would have entitled the papers to hack him?
You may also consider the fact that the hacking would almost certainly have been a fishing expedition, with the offending emails only used ex post facto as justification. You still comfortable with that?
Personally, I’ve never been comfortable with, or a fan of, the Gordon Brown/rocking horse meme. So far as I’m aware, it’s a complete, and rather distasteful, fabrication.
If the hacking you refer to is the McBride/Draper emails, then I have no idea (obviously) how there were obtained. The fact that they were, and were exposed, was in the public interest. Do you think that if Conservative activists had been doing the same thing as McBride and Draper were, exposing them would not be in the public interest?
I wasn’t asking if you approved of the meme, I’m asking you whether a journalist (and I use the term advisedly) who suspected you might have forwarded or received it would be entitled to hack you.
Once again, I repeat, the political affiliation of the hackee is irrelevant. I don’t know how to make that any clearer.
Answer came there none – which tells much.
Maybe Jimmy has a life and had to go out?
Indeed. It means my comprehensive demolition of your argument has been modded. Complain to the management.
Was it not Derek Draper who has was caught photographed leaving his pad with his hard disk? and did the pictures just all of a sudden disappear? (I think it was the Mirror? , correct me if I am wrong?
Isnt it about time a proper investigation was conducted into Browns cleaning arrangements I never quite understood what went on there. Did he provide a satisfactoey explination at the time?
Satisfactory as in “I didn’t do anything wrong”.
About par for the course.
About as convincing as Blairs’ mix up with the shredding arrangements !
remind me – was he the one who claimed for having his wisteria trimmed?
Lawyers and banks handing over info like that? Bollocks!
my bum wiping finger is named Bertice
Just like the useless twat to jump on the bandwagon. He’ll do anything to avoid representing his constituents as he is fucking well paid to do.
Just like me. I feel like a teenager,
say murdoch now shuts down the times/sunday times/the sun
I’ve just registered the “sundaytimesonsunday.com” domain
I checked it on ‘giggle’ first
Brown is a spineless clown and should never be forgiven for what he has done to our great country, along with his cronies Red Ed and Bollocks.
The McBride-Draper emails were a matter of public interest.
MPs expenses are a matter of public interest.
Blagging the medical records of Brown’s children is utterly repugnant and indefensible.
Calm down dear and read this for a little perspective
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271419/selective-shaming-mark-steyn
It was so repugnant that after Rebekah Brooks told Gordon Brown she was going to print the story he threw a birthday party for her. Obviously Brown would never have wanted that story printed, it’s not as if it portrayed him in a sympathetic light.
Getting Mad Dog Brown out of the Downing Street bunker was in the national interest.
What the hell is the ex-Chancellor doing banking with Abbey National anyway! Or was it because he kept bouncing cheques with Bank of Scotland?!? Abbey National is known to leak like a sieve!
Santander, now I think.
Still a ropey outfit though.
Would you keep all your money in a Scottish bank – RBS or HBOS, say – if you were Chancellor?
If I was Gordon Brown?! Yes if I was me?…… No way! His bounced cheques to his landlord in 1971 were BoS so maybe they did ask him to “make alternative banking arrangements”…..
Rebekah Brooks told Brown in 2006 she had obtained the medical information about his child. The Brown’s were so outraged by this Sarah subsequently arranged her 40th birthday party. Is anybody in the media going to point this out?
I hope someone picks this up
+1000 thumbs up
Not fucking likely
Ho Hum, feeling a bit queasy reading posts from a bunch hypocritical twats claiming to be libertarians whilst making excuses for those who illegally accessed the medical records of someone’s gravely ill child purely for profit; this is Mcruin we’re talking about admittedly but FFS stop being such disingenuous cocks and admit this disgusting behaviour.
The contagion is spreading across NI now, not looking so good for Rupert’s deal; and rightly so.
So why did Sarah later organise Rebekah’s fortieth birthday and also invite her to a slumber party at Chequers?
Ed Miliband is excusing Tom Baldwin for doing exactly the same things with Lord Ashcroft’s bank account as Brown’s claiming happened to his.
get ready for a prolonged period of queasiness.
many here on the bogtrotter’s gazette have a strong, longstanding vested interest in mr murdoch’s welfare.
like dave, they believe that he deserves a second chance (and so do they)
Oh piss of and stick your faux indignation where the sun doesn’t shine you sanctimonious cretin – you’re the equivalent of the member of the baying mob on the simpsons who screams “for god’s sake, won’t someone think of the children?”
Piss *off* of course – damn the lack of an edit function
Is Brown the most useless politician ever? Or is that Prescott? Huhne?
useless?
He wasnt.
Spendaholic to get votes he was.
Guido Fawkes is going to be hung, drawn and quartered….again. hehehe
No probs, we’ll put him back together again
Please please please let it be Tom Baldwin doing the account hacking.
It is just the kind of landmine Gordon would step on.
But Gordon is an honourable man…..
It’s the eternal triangle isn’t it? BBC>Gruadian>McShite! Is anyone taking this seriously anymore?
FFS, all these pathetic has been politicians are now jumping on the band wagon, shut this down, shut that down, Gordon will be suing Nokia next because his mobile bounced back off the wall and nearly took his (other) eye out.
Hacking the records of Browns dead kid………Jesus christ. Aplogise for this all you want…..You are all Scum
1 : i doubt anyone here hacked the records
2: Gordon wanted the state to hack into our e-mails, phone records etc
Karmas a bithch.
With respect, you’re a feeble minded hypocritical prick Billy.
You deny the facts so go straight to insults.
I prefer to think of them as facts that can be used as insults.
true – but he gives a great blowjob
I am outwaged!
Whichever governmemt wath in power during thith hacking thould be held rethponthible!
“McBride suggested spreading gossip, entirely unfounded, that Cameron may have suffered from a sexually transmitted disease.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/13/damian-mcbride-derek-draper-emails
A disease moreover that mcbride suggested was responsible for the disability of cameron’s son.
gordon of course denied all knowledge of mcbride’s disgusting activities. That reminds me of another boss somewhere ,now who is it?…..
“He [Damien McBride] also suggested spreading rumours that “secret tapes” existed containing evidence that Osborne had sex with the prostitute.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/13/damian-mcbride-derek-draper-emails
“Brown’s dead kid” not “Browns dead kid”
Christ has a capital ‘C’.
Don’t capitalise the ‘S’ in Scum.
Socialist scum by name and nature.
Oway man pet sum uz us r Geordies like
You poor dear, you! Never suspected you were such a sensitive type…
Brilliant – Rupert will end up getting the rest of B SkyB for less – own goal MPs!
yes, I agree
my first thought when I read this story was “Rupert will be pleased, this story that shows illegality wasn’t just confined to the NoW but happened at other NI titles too is just what he needed in the middle of an already tricky negotiation”
Every single newspaper in the country has broken laws to get stories.
Even the Church Times & the Tablet? – justify your claim
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/03/ministers_clueless_about_voice.php
He did say newspaper, not a journal.
Yes, I fail to believe that other papers have not used illegal methods to gain information in the past. I bet there are many ex-editors shitting themselves at the moment.
Is anyone really surprised about all the revelations? Journalists have been called hack for years.
Gordon’s pin number
FeS2
Which is text for confess.
Or a suitable chemical formula for Fool’s Gold.
Gold. Yes. That reminds us doesn’t it?! how he stabbed the nation in the back by selling our gold at the brown bottom!
We did rather well from it actually.
Brown to make a statement to The House??
I’ll believe that when I see it!!
In his house, number 13 Railway Cuttings, Kirkcaldy.
He’ll never remember how to get there.
4.30 this afternoon.
It’s all about Ed Miliband & Gordon Brown.
Cameron can’t get a look in, the Old Etonian twat
I find this all so amazing. Never ever seen a story develop, twist and turn so quickly. It will make a cracking film.
well it’ll have to be a comedy with gordon and militwit in it!!
One to rival Plan 9 From Outer Space, maybe.
What’s fascinating is that Brown appears to have known about the hacking…
…but did nothing. He should have reported these crimes to the police but sat on them. Indeed, he associated with the apparent criminals here.
http://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/statuses/90439898397556740/
Are you at some point going to work out how to provide links that actually work Billy?
one day
Latest Labour leak. Miliband still bed wetting.
Listening to the Twat now. Someone need to thump the opportunistic twat.
who leaked?
Hey Gordoom, you fat prat, why didn’t you mention this back when this crisis started, or even better, in the all the days and weeks since your ignominous political fall?
And I had just forgotten what you looked like too.
Abbey National forgot what he looked like as well apparently as they gave out his bank details SIX TIMES to someone else pretending to be him.
All the “blagger” had to do was breathe heavily down the phone…
“Sandra, either your stalker’s on the phone or Mr Brown wants his bank balance.”
Username: GoldenGordon
Password: Prudunce.
Chris Bryant says…
Chris Bryant MP recalls the last time he
met Rupert Murdoch’s embattled lieutenant Rebekah Brooks face to face:
“She came up to me and said, ‘Oh, Mr Bryant, it’s after
dark – shouldn’t you be on Clapham Common?”
“At which point Ross Kemp [the ex-EastEnders actor and her then husband] said,
‘Shut up, you homophobic cow’.”
The MP, who is openly gay, can afford to smile at the incident,
which happened during a News International reception at the Labour Party conference several years
ago.
Bryant’s worst moment came when The Mail on Sunday reported that a picture
of him in his underpants was posted on the Gaydar website with explicit
comments.
For the first time, he revealed how close the strain of that
exposure came to ending his life.
“It is the only time in my life I have ever come close to
feeling that I did not want to be around any more,” he said. “I
didn’t sleep for about three months. All sorts of other weird stuff happened,
including a stalker.”
The stalker called at his flat after his address was made
public. Bryant said: “He told me down the intercom, ‘I’m very submissive’.
I said, ‘Well, piss off then’. He replied: ‘I’m not that submissive’.”
+++++++++Statement+++++++++++
The Guy News room is busy at the moment, please leave a message and someone from the Times will get back to you.
The Times?
Isn’t that where tombaldwin came from?
As for bank accounts. which of gordon’s bank accounts have they hacked? Is it the one where he’s keeping that £600k he’s earned this year (separate to his HoC salary & expenses that he most surely has not earned) and said that he’s given to charity ie the sarah and gordon brown ltd bank account?!
For the last time, the money was just *resting* in the account.
I am beginning to wonder whether this is a Brown led attack on Murdoch, to pay him back what he sees as their betrayal, and for losing him the election.
Brown said last week that if this informantion was in the Public domain before the election, he would still be in Downing Street.. I think this was a self repremand as he cold have put it in the public domain before the election, but hoped to win and gain Murdochs support again.
The latest claim about Abbey National – Abbey National apparently wrote to the Times editor about their findings. It is inconceivable that Brown was not told at that time.
If he was told, he would have been aware of the activities of News International, at the time of the Select Comittee reports saying that NotW paid police for information, and also when the Data protection comission suggested that the use of Private Investigators was widespread.
Was Browns buddy, Tom Watson, working with the help of the Guardian to nail both News International, and Cameron?
Was Miliband briefed in advanced so that he could respond quickly?
Of course this is a Brown led attack how can anybody be in any doubt. He couldn’t say anything before the election because that would have been proof that Labour had helped, with the police, cover up NI’s crimes. Hopefully the enquires will prove this but I doubt it.
Is the Pope Catholic? Gordon is definitely one who bears a grudge.
Of course it is. This is a well co-odinated attack by Labour and Gordon knows full well that his little Boy will get the emotional just on his side. I just hope people consider Why did Gordon wait until now and not do something when he held the power to do something practical?
Yes it seems that way. For what we know this strategy could be aimed at getting Gordon back to Downing St. As the supreme overlord.
But there is no doubt about this. This is revenge as only Brown and his cabal know.
Trouble is with the Phone Hacking they Brown, Milliband , Watson etc are all implicated.
Serious journalists will ask (not the BBC etc because they are leftie, liberal ,socialist pricks) why they did not stop or investigate the allegations on their watch?
Looking at Twitter some Leftie Liberal socialist pricks are getting wet at the thought of this triggering a GE and the return of Labour to power. Some even think we are going to be the first “western spring” country to do so.
Except You Socialist,Liberal,Leftie,dumbfuck pricks that we are in the summer.
The more they push , The more you seriously have to consider somebody is going to push the Nuclear option and labour will be finished.
Perhaps Tony Blair’s recent babbling that New Labour died when Brown took over was a failed attempt to displace Brown’s plan from the grid.
mmmm wouldn’t this heap suspicion on someone on the political staff of the Sun at the times who used to work for the Sunday Times?
should read…”at the time”!! It got me thinking further……there is a prominent political journalist around who went from the political desk of the Sunday Times to that of the Sun. Now he was…probably still is…a good mate of McBride’s. So is it possible that, rather than this information arising from a hacking type of operation, it was in fact a Balls -McBride ruse to garner sympathy for their boss, in defiance of their boss refusals to go along with it. And that the using a journalistic mate’s company to do this was thought to be the way ahead. And that, following the release of the information, the Balls – McBride strategy was to not let any resentment on the part of Brown against NI linger…hence the cordial activity later on?
The Guardian also says Abbey National bank found evidence suggesting a “blagger” acting for the Sunday Times posed as Mr Brown on six occasions and gained details from his account.
It further claims Mr Brown’s London lawyers Allen & Overy were “tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times”.
However, Allen and Overy have told Sky News they have never represented Gordon Brown.
More follows
“However, Allen and Overy have told Sky News they have never represented Gordon Brown.”
The Gordoom-Grauniad Pact should have checked its story a little bit more.
Abbey National bank found evidence suggestion that a “blagger” acting for the Sunday Times on six occasions posed as Brown and gained details from his account,
No greater love has a bank than to give details of a customer to someone who can pose as that customer!
Yes. High profile customer like gordon, you’d think abbey would recognise him wouldnt you ? or realise they’d got an imposter.
I think it calls into question the competence of Abbey National.
Suggest that anyone with an account there moves it urgently to somewhere safer!!
Address: “yes. thats eleven .. one-one downing street”.
Mothers maiden name: “souter”
Fathers middle name: “ebeneezer”
your favourite family pet: “we didnt have one as it was viewed as vain and sinful”.
What did you want to be when you grew up: “be a train driver. and drive it over the tay bridge in a violent storm and kill everyone on board”
bugger. train driver.
santander now of course.
So thats why they are bringing the call centres back to the UK!
Address: “yes. thats eleven .. one-one downing street”.
Mothers maiden name: “souter”
Fathers middle name: “ebeneezer”
your favourite family pet: “we didnt have one as it was viewed as vain and sinful”.
What did you want to be when you grew up: “be a train droover. and drive it over the tay bridge in a violent storm and kill everyone on board”
Address: “yes. thats eleven .. one-one downing street”.
Mothers maiden name: “souter”
Fathers middle name: “ebeneezer”
your favourite family pet: “we didnt have one as it was viewed as vain and sinful”.
What did you want to be when you grew up: “be a train driver. and droove it over the tay bridge in a violent storm and kill everyone on board”
A Monday without Mark and Rich is like a fish without a bicycle.
I worked for many years in a major High Street bank and I can tell you that in my personal experince all high profile customers i.e celebrities and politicians would usually be dealt with by the prestige divison of the bank and they would have separate telephone contact numbers to the ordinary public and also have a marker flag on their account profile highlighting to the customer services operator that any request for info were to be only dealt with by a named individual within the organsiation.However in these days of 24/7 telephone and internet banking and overseas call centres that was not always foolproof especially if they got through to a junior customer services operative based abroad by using the common access telephone numberand used the line “Do you know who I am ?” although they would have been informed at the time and agreement sought that they would have a personal password for accessing info which without it they would be denied but you know what celebs and politicians can be like sometimes too cocky for their own good….and sometimes they forgot the password which could lead to heated discussions.
I reckon if Alan Johnson called a black MP a monkey the spe aker would have pulled him up.
The Postie ought to know about Organ Grinders too….
This is MUCH biger than Watergate.
Watergate involved ONE bungled break-in.
RupertGate involves thousands of break-ins over a period of years.
Someone should hang for this. And it should be Rupert Murdoch.
Wait until MGN is investigated…
The BSkyB merger may have been kicked into the long grass but will be nodded through when all the furore is a dim and distant memory.
Why is Call Me Dave keeping such a low profile? Could it be that Murdoch has evidence of behaviour far worse then buying a Showaddywaddy lp?
You are right. It will get nodded through eventually because the foul, ugly Murdoch has his ‘friends in high places’ and always will have. Cameron being a very special friend. What a fucking country and government we have!
Why is ‘Call Me Dave’ keeping a low profile?
He isn’t. He’s publicly condemned the worst of the voicemail interceptions. He announced that two enquiries will be held. Hunt has written to OfCom asking if they wish to update their advice over the BSkyB takeover in the light of recent events. There’s an ongoing Plod investigation (another one!) which might be prejudiced by too much political comment.
For once, Dave’s got it about right, so far.
dave’s always been a firm believer that actions speak louder than words.
which is why he acts like a clueless cun*t
We’ll see.
It strikes me that there must be a hell of a lot of shit, waiting to be poured into a hell of a lot of fans out there.
If everything comes out there won’t be a single politician left stand. Well maybe just Tim Farron. He genuinely is that boring.
Gordon’s phones never lasted long enough to be hacked, perhaps they mean Gordon hacked them to pieces?
The most odious creature on ‘Planet BBC’ Alistair Campbell
Don’t forget Yasmin Bye bye Brown Hyacinth and Toilets McGuire.
Ed Miliband really is a vile scumbag with a mong face, anyone would think his party were never in power for 13 years when ALL this hacking took place and they knew about it.
Oh and has anyone else noticed that Ed Balls is very quiet on this matter?
They won’t find out about his slush-fund by getting his bank account details……..
I am amused by Brown complaining about his financial details being looked at given that he used a taxpayer funded flat to give to his wife who then took equity out of it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1556730/Flat-deal-will-mean-tax-savings-for-Brown.html
Brown is a sleaze bag.
That Flat had something to do with Robert Maxwell before he fell off his yacht!!!!
Brown bought it off Maxwell’s company the Daily Mirror!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/probe-urged-into-browns-maxwell-company-flat-purchase-728580.html
Twice cursed!
Maybe Sarah Brown should get it exorcised…
Cameron is toast!
LOL!
Now that brown has waded into this mess, attention is off cameron and on brown and murdoch will come out of it smelling of roses!
If gordon knew his records and phone had been hacked, and by whom, back in the days when he was pm, why didn’t he do something about it? hmmm?!
Couldn’t be, could it ,that he too was trying to curry favour with NI because an election was coming and he didn’t want to upset them could it?! He’s all but confessed that that is exactly what he was doing hasn’t he?!
And American institutional investors have added NoTW to their suit against NewsCorp
Does anyone know if this paper has hacked any phones?
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
I’d still be prime minister if it wasn’t for Murdoch! And Blair. And Campbell. And Cameron. And Clegg. And the voters.
I feel sorry for anyone trying to hack into gordon’s phones.
First of all they’d have to keep finding out what his newest number for the day was . Then they’d have to keep dealing with all that shouting and foul language and those thwacks against the wall.
Very hard on the ears.
1/10 for effort!!
over generous, but one should always treat the post menopausal with kindness
Cor blimey. I knew nuffink about what the police was getting up to
Guido, Dennis Skinner just made a rather joke about Huhne’s speeding that’s worth uploading. Skinner’s a c unt but it’s an admittedly funny joke and the whole chamber laughed.
…Ronnie Campbell (lounging next to Skinner) just looked puzzled.
Too many long words for Ronnie, I think.
Hasn’t that commie bastard shuffled his mortal coil yet?
Skinner is preferable to the Nu Lab apparatchiks that supplanted Old-Labour.
He also has more entertainment value…
He always was Izal for the great lady.
The only reason I organised Rebekah Brooks’ 40th birthday is because she makes me wet. I love red rugs.
And Gordon was telling us that our Health Records were safe with the NHS?
Power will always be abused.
Perhaps it was a News International journalist who hacked into the national accounts while Gord was prudently magaging them and left us with a trillion pounds of debt?
I await with pleasure the evidence from NewsInt about brown and his back-office team of helpers and MP’s smearing party colleagues and Opposition members via their newspapers. This is going to be good:)
Can I thay that the weason Gordon never menthioned hith son or any of thith account hacking before, ith that before he wath in love with Wupert.
Thnakth fowr youwr continuing thupport.
vote Labour: The Next Generation.
This is a perfectly thought out strategy to take it to Murdoch , that is clearfully obvious. How far it will go before it blows up in their face is anybodys guess.
Baldwin looks to be first target , that will put pressure on Ed. How might break his record and repeat himself even more.
Sarah Brown has put herself in the firing line with the revelation regarding Brooks birthday gathering which should be revealing.
This just reeks of Alastair Campbell. The sooner he is brought out to the open on Iraq and declared a lying irrelevance the better.
But it also sums up the new Labour method of Spin. It is all about Me,me,me and me.
Now Milly Dowler has been replaced by the son of Sarah and Gordon Brown in the media. And do not be surprised if the daughter is wheeled out in the next few days as on Piers Morgan to capitalize on the public mood and disgust.
These fucking people absolutely disgust me.
As I blog on http://rightwayfwd.blogspot.com/, Brown has some very awkward questions to answer before making his accusations. Until Murdoch shafted Labour, he was willing to keep courting Brooks.
Judging by that picture His last remaining brain cell’s been hacked !
HACKING
NEWS INTERNATIONAL
MURDOCH
SHOCK
HORROR
The BBC reporters have cum running down their legs. Lord Ashcroft told anybody who would listen that Tom Baldwin of The Times/Sunday Times had used blaggers to get details of his bank account but the BBC couldn’t give a fuck, yet today they are astonished to discover The Times/Sunday Times has been involved in blagging! It’s absolutely incredible, Labour cover up NI crimes for 8 years and it is the Tories who are being destroyed.
We’re a long way from destroyed…these are big boys’ games now. Miliband will be a casualty in this.
The inquiry will hopefully be including the complete lack of action of the last Labour shambles.
it’s all about leadership or, in dave the clueless’ case – lack of it
See phone hacking isn’t always a bad thing !
They didn’t hack my phone cause I lost it in the sea along with my passport.
“In truth, a kind of British Spring is under way, now that the News Corporation’s tidy system of punishment and reward has crumbled. Members of Parliament, no longer fearful of retribution in Mr. Murdoch’s tabloids, are speaking their minds and giving voice to the anger of their constituents. Meanwhile, social media has roamed wild and free across the story, punching a hole in the tiny clubhouse that had been running the country. Democracy, aided by sunlight, has broken out in Britain. ”
The New York Slimes really does print some crap, doesn’t it?
Speaking of system of punishment of reward, how is the NYS doing for keeping Operation Fast and Furious silent?
“The Guardian stayed on the phone-hacking story like a dog on a meat bone, acting very much in the British tradition of a crusading press, and goosing the story back to life after years of dormancy. Other papers, including The New York Times, reported executive and police complicity that gave the lie to the company’s “few bad apples” explanation. As recently as last week, Vanity Fair broke stories about police complicity.
Mr. Murdoch, ever the populist, prefers his crusades to be built on chronic ridicule and bombast. But as The Guardian has shown, the steady accretion of fact — an exercise Mr. Murdoch has historically regarded as bland and elitist — can have a profound effect.
His corporation may be able to pick governments, but holding them accountable is also in the realm of newspaper journalism, an earnest concept of public service that has rarely been of much interest to him. ”
Anyone who writes for the Slimes needs a thump.
The world will still keep going round.
Hey GB. It’s me, Barry. Meet me at our usual spot, the third bush behind the large tree on the south side of the Heath at 2am. Sorry to use the word bush, I know it disturbs you and reminds you of females. I’ll be in my sailor outfit. See you soon, honey.
REJOICE!! REJOICE!!
Developing…
UPDATE IV: David Cameron preparing to offer his resignation,from his bunker.
Just remind me again what this has to do with Cameron?
Was he personally listening in to Maddie’s mum’s phone?
Or are you confusing newspapers with government.
Easy mistake for a Blair loyalist to make.
He employed the key figure in all this and cannot admit he was wrong
Nor can he admit that more than one person advised him against it nor can he break the hold Murdoch has on him
Nor can he bring himself to tell the truth
Want any more ?
all true, but surely he deserves a second chance?
I doubt he is.
If Brown could hang on for two years even after his entire cabinet resigned in a no confidence protest, then I expect Dave is OK for a while..
We had the flags half unfurled for McDoom. All ready to greet his resignation with a cheers and bunting. But the Golden Bandit made it all the way to the finish line. And even a little bit beyond.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Nadine-Dorries-MP-Receives-Damages-Over-Smeargate/Article/200910415422896
This is good the more Labour go on and on and on teh more peopel will forget about NOWT and Labour will just look vindictive and nasty
What the fuck is NOWT?
That’s probably because labour ARE vindictive and nasty.
By the way gordon’s Bomshell was dropped as Dave was giving his Canary Warf speech. The news channels cut away and never went back.
Was it his Big Sock again?
If it was, I don’t blame them.
it epitomises dave’s visionary qualities – I’m astonished that it hasn’t become more popular
That made I larf.
Public Service at it’s best , delightful, arrogant, shits we have as politician’s, they are too busy fighting each other to bother about what they are supposed to be doing in Parilament, people wonder why people aren’t bothered to vote, just watch Parliament tv ,the window on Britains disgraceful , disgusting MPs.
Hey, remember when just two weeks ago the Graun leaked government emails that showed it was at least trying to prevent widespread rolling blackouts due to overreliance on renewabullshit?
But hey, I guess that’s EARNEST PUBLIC SERVICE so that’s alright!
Yes that’s right.
Hello Tory boys
So its ok to illegally obtain the medical records of a dieing new born and publish a story on that.
Ditto a kid with cystic fibrosis.
All because you don’t like Gordon Brown.
Yer pal Murdoch is sunk.
New monicker TaT?
Can’t say its as good as Moussa.
You are obviously still in nappies or you would recall this happened on Blair’s watch and was cover up by him & his crooked mates sucking up to Murdock the hacker in chief.
Now suck on your dummy like a good boy and try not to crap again whilst I am giving the lodger a good seeing to.
Brown seemed to think it was okay because after Brooks printed this story he threw her a 40th birthday party and Sarah had her over for a slumber party. That’s just the sort of thing you do for people who disgust you.
I fucking hate Gordon Brown. OK?
Fuck off, you spastic.
If you can have a go at me because I went to a better school than you, it’s only reasonable that I can give you the opprobrium you deserve. Choose better parents in your next life, arsehole.
Now go cash your giro or feed the whippets or do something lowbrow. There’s a good chap.
All the world knows Murdoch, pere et fils, are Tory boys.
Cameron is a clown for hiring Coulson.
Etonian Tory boy is an easy take.
That sounds like the genuine TaT to me!
Tory boys running around like headless chickens the instant privilege and power are shot.
Nothing new.
More than 10 million people voted for them at the last election – are they all privileged and rich?
No, just deluded.
Having a bad week boys? Hahaha.
BTW, it’s ‘ascertained’.
Listening to the Grauniad’s tape clip of a reputed News International person “blagging” his way to details of Gordon Brown’s finances, I could not help noticing that Brown’s solicitors were Allen and Overy and his accountants were Arthur Andersen.
I’m very well aware of what these firms charge – far more than could be afforded on an MP’s salary.
What am I failing to understand, here?
He seemed to be trying to find out what Brown paid for his flat. Why weren’t the details in the Land Register?
Campbell on C4 News saying during the 2010 Election Gordon Brown was hoping that the New York Times would dig up something on News International because in Britain the hacking story was dead. What a load of bollocks. The story was only dead because people like Brown were complicit in the criminality and helped NI cover it up.
Surely if GB *wanted* the NYT to publish a story he would have had someone provide them with enough info to get them going. The idea that he would be itching for them to run with it but unwilling to give it a kick start is preposterous. Sounds like just another fantastical excuse for not winning.
After Coulson started work for Cameron, The Grauniad, BBC and Liebour, brought up the phone hacking charges a couple of times to spin headlines against the Conservatives, but when Jackie Spliff and later Johnson were asked if they intended re-opening the criminal case, they both said NO! Labour had no intention of upsetting Murdoch, even after he announced he was backing the Tories.
When the hell are the media (i don’t expect the BBC to) actually going to widely report some of this blatant Labour hypocrisy?
Ah, yes, NYT, the bastion of journalistic honesty. “Let’s endorse McCain for the Repub nomination then run a bullshit story about him having an affair!”
They wouldn’t know honesty if it ran up to them and declared them bankrupt.
Why didn’t these accusations appear in Gordy’s book on courage?
The treatment of this little boy is appalling. He’s a very sick little lad with a very serious condition, and suffers greatly. Rebeccah Brooks and her disgusting colleagues should be looking down the wrong end of a lengthy custodial sentence.
As I point out below, Brown has known about this, since Rebekah Brooks called him to tell him in 2006 – so why raise it now?
Also, Brown appears to have conveniently forgotten about Damian McBride operating out of Number Ten on his behalf, who tried to smear Osborne’s wife.
There is something fishy about this whole episode – it smells of Brownian revenge!
I never knew about this kid’s problem until now. Like most other people.
If Brown is bringing this into the publi domain, using is own kid for political reasons, then terrible shame be upon him.
One would think he’s not a real father.
The joke is Labour/Unions/Gurniad/Indie/BBC think they’re onto something, I don’t think they realise the can of worms they’ve opened and how it will come back to haunt them.
Anyone seen Toilets Maguire?
If there was proper journalism at the BBC and the Gurdiad, later tonight they’d list all the NI engagements/meetings/parties that GB attended (or when he invited them) and never said anything.
Unfortunatley, the BBC won’t report it! So many will be completely unaware.
Labour have taken this gamble, because they know the BBC and anti-Murdoch/Cameron media will dominate the narrative with attacks on the Conservatives and defending Labour as the happless victims of the the big bullies at News Int.
They have got away with this before when they launched their assaults against Lord Ashcroft. The BBC compeltely ignored the non-doms that doanted large sums to Labour. Lord Paul, Mittal, Ronnie Cohen chucked millions at Labour for often big favours as well, but the BBC made sure it wasn’t mentioned. Parts of the press may have mentioned it of course……..
I am always suspicious when a politician starts bleating about how unfairly he has been treated. The Milly Dowler episode is appalling beyond belief, but I am cynical of Brown’s intervention.
Take the case of The Sun and his child’s medical records. Brown has known about it since Rebekah Wade called him in 2006 to tell him they knew about his son’s condition – the resulting article was actually quite sympathetic to the Browns, so why is he raising the topic now?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/…has-cystic-fibrosis.html
Also, Brown seems to have conveniently forgotten that Damian McBride operating out of Number Ten on his behalf, tried to smear Osborne’s wife.
It all smells to high Heaven!
…………and why is Sarah Brown tweeting today how “hurtful” it was to have the kid’s medical condition revealed in 2006 – when, two years later in 2008, she held one of her “girly sleepover parties” at Chequers for Rebecca Brooks, Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth and his wife Wendi.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/2121751/Gordon-Browns-wife-Sarah-holds-slumber-party-at-Chequers.html
Such forgiveness – they’re just saints really, these Labour pols.
Do Leftie Socialist liberal Pricks at the Guardian actually do any research?
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/07/gordon-brown-hacked/
He really is a deplorable scumbag.
How’s that charity work you promised to do going you cycloptic Scottish moron?
Who’s Gordon Brown?
Who gives a f*ck what that one-eyed Scottish c*nt thinks. This smacks of little more than trying to get some positive spin for the absent member!
Someone mentioned this link above…
http://www.financialriskstoday.com/newscorp_institutional.php
It’s about News Corp investors in the states complaining about how the business is run, nepotism etc.
Here’s the interesting bit…
“the deal [BSKYB] is likely to be put on ice if not scrapped completely, leaving both News Corp and its takeover advisors UBS and Morgan Stanley to decide what action next…The UK media watchdog Offcom will also have to consider its course of action and its chairman, and Morgan Stanley board member, Colette Bowe, will have to consider whether the scandal falls under its ‘fit for purpose’ remit”
Terrific.
So one of the key advisors to Murdoch, the Morgan Stanley board member Colette Bowe, also happens to be the chairman for Offcom!
Christ on a bicycle, It never ends. No wonder the smug NI supporting b*stards on Question Time last week week (Con & Labour) kept referring to…
“It’s in the hands of Offcom, it would be wrong to intervene”.
What goes around, comes around, Gordon! Now be a good ex PM, feck off and stop whinging . . .
Of course the Sun may yet have more to answer for. But there’s no evidence this cystic fibrosis story was anything more than a tip from inside the hospital. Certainly nothing suggests hacking despite the Indie/BBC/Graun hysteria. Any other paper would have run it if they’d had the same info. If you doubt that, which paper ran almost 800 words of the story that night in 2006, lifted from the Sun? Yep, the Guardian. So, Mr Rusbridger, was it in the public interest or wasn’t it?
It was Yvette Cooper who told The Guardian to get him sympathetic coverage
hmm…wouldn’t surprise if his own side leaked the details about his son with or without his knowledge. Pretty standard PR play if you’re trying to “humanise” and create popular sympathy your client….it’s been done many times before. I believe one footballer used a similar situation to to stop the Sun publishing about their affair – the paper got the exclusive on the child’s illness instead.
Given Gordon’s team signed him up for the “gut wretching” Piers Morgan interview and the limited access to the medical records (just try seeing your own and the number of forms which must be filled out) – I would think this more likely.
With NI’s initial response – “we’re happy with our source” – I expect there will be more to come today, possibly putting the spotlight back on Labour and their use of the ‘Dark Arts’ while in power.
All speculation however
Gordon wept as he said “I have a son?”
Let me get this straight.
Gordon fucks my green and pleasant land for 13 years; then gets upset at being bent over the kitchen table by a newspaper?
Nah. That dog don’t hunt.
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