Gordon’s Revenge
Rumours are swirling that Brown is about to break cover at some point and implicate other newspapers in this scandal. Crick has put his cards on the table:
I hear that Gordon Brown going to make statement re activities of Sunday Times this afternoon.—
Michael Crick (@BBCMichaelCrick) July 11, 2011
Many suspect the glee with which Labour have taken to this fight has within it an element of Brownite revenge for the vicious kicking News International gave the Prime Mentalist on his way out the door and a kick in the shin to Blair who was closely allied to Murdoch. He may have sworn revenge, and it’s no surprise his close ally Tom Watson has been at the heart of this campaign, but can Brown really turn around now, with any shred of credibility, and pretend he wasn’t as enamored with the Sun King as his predecessor and successor? He certainly went out of his way to creep up to the empire.
Not only was Gordon creeping around James Murdoch whenever he got the chance (he was his guest at Chequers the weekend that the 2007 election was cancelled), but according to the “Ed” book, Rebekah Wade came up with one of his Miliband-destroying “no time for a novice” sound bites. One of the key ways he brown-nosed Murdoch and News International was by carefully deploying his more socially adept wife to do his bidding. Not content with organising dinners and Chequers “slumber parties“ with Elizabeth and Wendi Murdoch, Sarah Brown actually organised Rebekah Brook’s fortieth birthday.
Yes you read that right.
Now will the MSM tell the truth?
My husband, my hero.
My husband, my weirdo.
My Sarah, my beard
Slumber parties are what you do when you’re a fucking teenager, not a supposedly grown up Prime Minister’s wife.
WTF where they all doing – licky licky?
Oh yeah!
Sarah “organised Rebekah Brook’s fortieth birthday.” Really? I think Rebekah’s parents organised it 40 years and 9 monthe earlier, without Sarah’s help.
Perhaps Sarah just organised the birthday party.
How come I never get invited to slumber partiezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…….
There is a story going on that Rupert is going to sell all his UK newspapers.
That’s generally how he makes his money.
Doomsday Option innit. The more the Graun string this along, the more likely it will happen, and the greater the chance Rusbridger and Labour’s friends snap up a cheap newspaper and ground it into the dirt.
Immigration Advisory Service goes into administration
The IAS, which employs 300 people, has closed its 14 branches.
One employee told the BBC that staff had been told to clear their desks and that administrators were already in the central headquarters in London.
The free service is one of the leading charities giving legal advice and representation to immigrants and asylum seekers in England and Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14105065
Good, now perhaps we can some of these free-loading cunts back home.
How come? Thought it would be doing very good business. Lots of people are still coming in. Just look at flights coming in from certain countries its always full but when the flights return it always empty.
The Refugee legal Centre went into administration last year as well. This means that two of the biggest providers of legal advice have shut.
The bad cases ie ones where people were admitted for the flimsest of reason wa due to private firms who just took the meney and run.
What this will mean is that cases will have to be abandoned due to no legal advice causing further delays to processing claims. It will cost more money in the longer term
Thankyou Will for that example of the Law of Unintended Cosequences.
They’re all in this together. Ferrets in a sack.
Wed Ed can sweem and scweem but nothing will change the fact that Rupert has the better looking wife.
Why Wendi hates Brooks?
Its also said oriental women have a tight ….
….Husband?
Wallet
Oh dear. Didn’t anyone warn Rupert that Gordon is a Jonah?
“Rebekah Wade came up with one of his Miliband-destroying “no time for a novice” sound bites.”
i thought that was a dig towards Cameron?
it was duble edged, for hiena boy and milibanana.
i is clever
It was a dig at Miliband (D) sold as a dig at Cameron.
Where is Miliband (D)? He is very close to Brook’s and Rupert.
Cheers
Osborne, I thought.
Hahaha, Gordon, you fat bastard. Haven’t you ruined enough?
“fortieth birthday.”
Is this not a spelling mistake?
No it is not.
But “organised Rebekah Brook’s fortieth” is.
More of a punctuation error.
Well, Murdoch, Wade and Cameron have absolutely nothing to worry about now Brown is about to pile in with hi stwo-penneth. What’s the betting he actually manages to implicate Bliar and a few others by accident and probably himself inadvertently?
haha
i think the Brown thing is a hoax.
Brown is in Parliament today, replete with wife and one child
How will we recognise him?
Just look out for someone you havent seen in a year, high on drugs.
He’s the one with the beard.
Surprised he can remember how to get there.
He follows his nose, the smell of money, and the stink of hypocrasy leads him straight there..
If the BBC play along Brown can get away with anything.
I wonder whether the Labour Party understand that while they’re scoring short term points with their “not me guv”, holier than thou attitude they’re actually storing-up a pile trouble in the form of a multi-billionaire, octogenarian who, when this is all over and forgotten, will still be one of the most powerful media owners in the World and who has a habit of ‘paying his debts’?
He’s not Tyrion Lannister is he?
Amazing HBO Show and not forgetting the book
And when the time comes, may Murdoch shit on Labour from a great height.
I’d really love to know what dirt Brooks has on Murdoch. She must know enough to bring the whole News Corp. empire down, why else would someone as famously unsentimental as Murdoch want to save her? Like a daughter? Like a daughter my arse. She’s got him by the bollocks more like.
She’s got a fine pair herself I’ll wager.
More likely she is a lightning-rod and will remain so for as long as possible. If she goes, they’ll start hounding his son who is in-line to replace him. In fact, they have already started to target him.
Labour HQ trying to find a newspaper that was not anti Brown. North Korea looking a possibility.
However bad things are at the moment I am gladdened to know he is not making any decisions on behalf of the UK
The people’s republic of North korea take the greatest offence at the suggestion that one of our finest journals would sink so low. If you do not withdraw that remark we will start WOrld War 3.
Ok. Cuba?
Old Chinese saying : “When you prod an adder make sure that it can’t strike you back !”…….
Brown is a snake-in-the-grass, but definitely not an adder.
None of the biggest three parties is good enough for me but the one thing I’m certain of is that anything is better than Bliar,Brown,Millimong Labour.
You can spot the difference?
Yes Archer,
The Conservatives are the only ones that the BBC attack!
How ever you try and pin this on McDoom, the fact remains Cameron hired Coulson when he shouldn’t have.
Let’s have Dave resign and a proper Tory come in (Boy Gideon?), after all the digs at Gordo they wouldn’t dare go without an election which would finish the lib dems and humiliate Red Ed – best route to a Tory govenment.
Thought it was Gideon who introduced Coulson to Cameron.
You’re correct: it was Osborne and Hague in October 2007.
The country’s not going to get a proper Tory.
Quite apart from the near absence of proper Tories in the Conservative Party, the Men in Grey Suits would have to choose someone who would be acceptable to the Lib Dims, to prolong the coalition. They’d be a traitor by definition.
Lol. Gideon a ‘proper Tory’ by virtue of what may I ask?
He agreed the EU bailouts, the IMF charade and no doubt the DfID budget / dictator bribery scheme. He is pissing more money away than the madman Von Braun. Certifiable idea.
The BBC destroys “proper” Tories
My friend,if you seriously think these c’unts are in any way different from each other,your mind has been rotted by reading the NOW too often and any other ‘kin newspaper for that matter.
Personally, deck chair shuffling is not a spectator sport I follow.
Anyone would have a problem hacking Gordon’s Nokia – it must have been changed every he lost his rag
Yeah but the numpty forgot to change his PIN.
I want to know why I am not being mentioned in the NI story – after all I liked to cosy up behind James. My links need exposing. I demand a full enquiry.
Looks like brown’s piles are playing up on that photo.
Rebekah is only there because a reanimated corpse has to drink her juices every few weeks in order to continue its’ malevolent existence. The Browns are from the same clutch of eggs, servant creatures, if you will. Yoy can’t attend parliament AND ensure the casket is disturbed by no earthly entity.
I’ve only been doing this ‘job’ for a year. Who is Gordon Brown ?
Does this mean Murdoch is doomed?
Can he survive the Brown curse?
Nothing can evade the McDoom curse.
Logically however if Gord is pitching in to help WedEd and not Rupe Gordo’s curse should only adversely affect Ed.
You are far too easliy distracted from the real story, or is it all simply too much to bear?
labour are so stupid. Murdoch is just going to end up holding a press conference where he will list the meetings with Gordon brown, tony blair etc and give the press copies of the emails toadying up to him and the inside info the NOTW gave to labour.
it will be like one of those films where the mafia godfather is being grilled by the senate committee and he starts handing out details of bribes they all accepted and the hookers they slept with etc.
it is going to be lovely and Murdoch will be grinning from ear to ear….
Anyone remember the film when Howard Hughes was accused by senators?
Wasn’t the clue in their nickname ? Newspaper hacks ??
Senior editors are surely strategists rather than tacticians and therefore, although they probably had an idea of how stories were obtained, they would have made sure they did not know the details and certainly would not have left a paper trail.
Nice to hear him speak out…
…years after leaving office. Who wrote a book called “Courage”?
Field Marshall Lord Slim of Burma. He wrote it himself. It was a small volume, because there’s not a lot to say about courage. A large, ghostwritten book seeking to justify the actions of a weakit, cowering socialist is a different thing altogether.
Not that I usually listen to Billy Bragg, but have a listen to this, “Scousers never buy The Sun”. Excellent
http://vimeo.com/26203800
Scousers never buy anything!
Mongs, the whole lot of them. Almost as mongy as the Scotts, and that is saying something as the Scotts are seriously mongy…
I’d rather die than listen to that cock
If you poke a stick up a bears bum it don’t come out covered in honey. Old Russian political saying.
Bears wood in the poop?
Update.
BBCMichaelCrick profile
BBCMichaelCrick Person close to Brown confirms story will explode at 4.30, though this source says no Commons statement today. 2 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
Looking at the expression on Brown’s face, something other than rumours was swirling and Murdoch does look as though he’s been making a bit of an effort.
my printer cartridge has run out of red ink
We are using Invisible Ink now, dear, just like the real spies do!
Andrew Neil also tweeting the same.
So if Cameron falls we have a election that may bring back Labour and we have EdMil as PM…….
Buy dried food, gold, weapons.
you seen Glen Beck as well then ?
HEEEELLLPPPP !!!!
That’s just nasty.
Wrong, there is no way that Balls will allow Milliweak to become PM. A coup will be engineered to ensure that Balls or Mrs Balls is the leader of Labour when an election is called.
Then we are all fucked!!!
Thanks to Brownomics, we are all fucked anyway.
Almost everyone knows Brown is a spineless, bullying coward who would not have had the guts to stand up to Murdoch.
i was having a poo in McDonalds at the time
I understand they’re £2.99 each, with fries and a paper cup full of ice.
Apparently Gordon will be making an appearance at the HoC, however he is having difficulty finding the place.
Oh! to be in hearing range when Sarah’s sprog points at No 10 and says,”Dad, why don’t we live there any more?”
have i completely missed something? has anyone pressed the labour party seriously on why they did not order a judicial inquiry after Goodman’s trial in 2007 if the plod knew at the time that Royal messages had been hacked…….
perhaps this is one for a reverse-ed where the interviewer asks ed the same question six times to reinforce the point.
They had dinner? Have you passed this scoop to ConHome yet?
This has to be the worst interference campaign ever.
From Crick’s twitter feed:
“Brown statement on him and Sunday Times around 5pm, I’m now told, on floor of Commons, preceded by details on Guardian website around 4.30″
How queer. The great helmsman appears to intend publicising the story on the Guardian before making his announcement in Parliament. Not got much respect for the place has he.
Well when did he ever have ant respect for Parliament?
I’m sickened how these socialists are jumping on the bandwagon. As far as I can tell these are “allegations”. What about all the Joe Soaps of this country that can be (and are) spied upon by local authorities and other bodies? All as a result of Liebour Government legoslation.
Come to that why is it that this government is carrying the can for the last government’s failure to act.
Frankly, with the exception of the Milly Dowler hacking, I couldn’t care less. As the last government were fond of saying, “If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear”.
Gordon is alive?
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
So why didn’t you act on it when you were PM?
Too busy saving the World.
Shame a machete wasn’t used!
I dont care who sticks it to these fuckers. Brown, Clegg, Osborne, Keith & Orville. The facts of this case are what should matter regardless of which political ideology/salesman you are taken in by.
We have precious few facts about this scandal – only increasingly demented allegations. If we were given actual facts instaead of the speculation and guesswork coming from the BBC/Guardian sewer we might be able to come to a definite conclusion.
You Labour trolls are believing every half-arsed allegation about Murdoch because it’s what you WANT to believe!
A News organisation hacking and bugging a sitting PM.
GAME OVER !!!!!!!!!!!
Moussa, you leftie mong! You prove the point I make in the last paragraph in comment 99!
Can’t count. I meant comment 103.
he is Either Mental , Suicidal or thinks he is Untouchable?
Do it Murdoch , press the button.
Lets see if Millileftiesocialistprick and the BBC can defend that.
If Labour are planning a vendetta against the press, how do they expect to win it?
When the penny drops, expect a lot of rowing back and fence mending.
The Milly Dowler episode was truly obscene – I am sure we can all agree on that. Politicians, however, are fair game.
If I were the editor of the Telegraph however, I would watch out – given the MPs expenses CD and their expose of it, the Barclay Brothers are likely to be the next targets for the Brownite vendetta express.
I am surprise given the level of hacking that glen Mcguire is not in a mental hospital having to listen to all these people. it would drive me mad.
11,000 pages of notes about 5 of them useful the rest inane dribblings
Cameron has just mentioned Coulson and second chances. Again. Still.
UNBELIEVABLE.
The question has to be asked – why now? If Brown knew all this, why wait until now to shout about it?
Something smells! Something is being orchestrated. Seems like a Brownite plot to dish the press and get his own back is gathering pace! Never underestimate the bile of the a dour Scot!
Breathe in Breathe out! The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. Labour have conspired with the stinking media for well over a decade. Now they are out of favour with the press, the knives are out.
Oh dear, Gordooms attack is already suffering friendly fire
It (the guardian) 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.
Courtesy of sky news
Hmmmm – how can Brown be sure that some of the information passed to the press didn’t come from his own side?
Now, that could prove very embarrassing for him.
I hope you’re not thinking of retardEd’s big Bruvver?
or someone with even less real balls but more balls if you see what I mean
or perhaps a slimebum with an axe to grind intent on slow revenge?
FWIW the way the Staggers put it at the time, she only “helped plan” Brooks’ 40th :
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/10/brown-murdoch-party-press
“[Sarah Brown] hosted a recent charity dinner in New York with the Sun’s editor Rebekah Wade and Wendi Murdoch, Rupert’s third wife. A plan to take Wade on the Prime Minister’s plane to the United States was scrapped, but the Murdoch clan’s close relationship with Sarah was much in evidence on the American trip. His daughter Elisabeth Murdoch…delivered a glowing tribute to the Prime Minister’s wife at the function, which was attended by bankers, models and actresses. Wendi was seen at a private dinner at Soho House, in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, attended by Sarah the following night. Sarah also organised a trip with Paul Dacre to see Hamlet at Stratford, and she helped plan Rebekah Wade’s 40th birthday party earlier this year. ”
For those who haven’t seen it, this is a great demolition job on Brooks by an anonymous insider (and a photo of her with Blair looking really creepy) :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013046/Rebekah-Brooks-Sun-News-World-run-fictional-stories-insider-claims.html
Wish he had kept away from Formula 1. Done me no favours. Huhne would be a better bet as he knows a bot about vroom-va-vrooom.
Rupert Murdoch and his son James look like Colonel Gaddafi and his son Saif. They are just about as foul and ugly as you would want and reflect the obscene wealth they have.