PANIC-O-RAMA: BBC’s Vivian White Investigating Osborne, Cocaine, Hooker and Hacking Story
The story that is tantalising Westminster this morning is that ABC News are going to broadcast an interview with Natalie Rowe where she alleges that she took cocaine with George Osborne during £350-a-time dominatrix sessions. The new hook for the story is that she is suing the News of the World for hacking her phone whereas when the Metropolitan police told George Osborne his phone was also hacked, he wasn’t interested in pursuing the issue. The story has been re-hashed as a result of the pending legal action.
The underlying suspicion of many seasoned Westminster observers is that Coulson’s hire was more Osborne than Cameron’s doing. A few weeks ago this point was being made in comment pieces on the media pages of the broadsheets. There was then a spate of stories suggesting that it was in fact Hague who was responsible for bringing Coulson into the Tory family, Hague was formerly a columnist for Andy Coulson’s News of the World. That briefing was put about to undermine the idea that Osborne had any motivation, quid pro quo, to hire Coulson.
The news that Vivian White, the respected Panorama veteran working on the Andy Coulson / hacking story for broadcast later in the year, had met Natalie Rowe, leaked out a few weeks ago. Knowledge of this is what first prompted some panic in No. 11….
its a non story Guido
young single male befriends hooker and does coke.
i’m a young single male and i’ve never done either! am i leading too sheltered a life?
It will be better for Cameron to let Osborne go rather than do an Andy; otherwise it will keep on dragging. Chances are, she is not the only one.
Thank you for being helpful.
The Narco State goodies sponsored by the Political Class. Lets find out who really has all the Drug Cash in Switzerland banks, It would make the expenses scandel look like the difference between shoplifting a Snickers and the Brinks Matt Bullion Robbery.
Yes ,rather sad really .
The reason you haven’t partaken in such activities is that Mr Osborne probably had considerably more money and time to waste than you had or indeed ever will have
The verb is “participate” not “partake”.
Is nit-picking a verb, or a noun?
Ah but al ja beeb will love this story they have form when it comes to non left issues and hypocrisy, all unbiased obviously.
British Police disgrace our country in the eyes of the world
why?
Burning a flag is ok and a form of protest.
should have fired a few dead pigs amongst the fuckers, that would have moved them on, ungratefull bastards
Bring Back Communism are truly desperate to get some dirt on the Conservatives, and are spending loads of our money to do it.
On the You and Yours radio programme today they interviewed that idiot Labour plonker in Middlesborough, and gave him such a mild time that I am truly surprised they did not apologise for taking up his time. Of course they never asked him ONE single question that taxed his frail mind or stance.
Now where on earth is that other plonker Patten who is supposed to be minding the store on this traitorous diservice?
On holiday or what?
fact is if every indiscretion was revealed no-one excepting saints would be in public life at all.
The BBC attacks this Government.
Yawn.
BBC expenses:
Ten lines of coke
Pro Muslim dinner dance
Two rent boys
Taxi across London to switch off water hose in garden
SWP/UK Uncut Summer Ball
BBC Bonus
£250,000 from al Jazeera & Press TV (Iran inc)
Yawn
Spot on as usual Grim
BBC Attacks Coalition:
Day follows night
Bears shit in woods
The Pope is a Catholic
BBC is a hard left channel promoting insurrection and radical Islam
Agreed
Good to see the BBC doing one on phone hacking and this, now i will just wait till they do one on Ed Balls as a Nazi,Gordon selling gold,Gordon chuckin Nokias, tony Blair and his fortune, the unions and its relience on the taxpayer etc….
You will be waiting for hell to freeze over I’m afraid.
We did ask politely at first.
You’ve put your finger on it there.
Enough of this – leave George alone!
the woman is completely unreliable. She freely admits having lied to the News of the World and she claims to vividly remembers Osbourne’s use of the word “insipid”, a word she didn’t even know the meaning of.
Ahhhh. The DSK ‘defence’.
Might work. Doubt it.
Yes ,she does seem as thick as cowshit.
Well umm just look a her!
Not fussy about who she sleeps with either.
I agree with Billy. For goodness sake, do we want to be run by Choir Boys who have seen nothing of and understand even less of life?
It is like the Louise Mensch story a few weeks ago – another non-starter. However, the Press will be desperate to get off of the back foot and will flog this until it can run no more. But I don’t see any harm coming of it.
And no, I have NEVER taken coke. Or used Hookers.
I have, both separately and at the same time. It’s great old chap, you should try it. Just don’t forget to shout “Louise” if you happen to feel a little too queasy.
“It is like the Louise Mensch story a few weeks ago”
Gideon invented a fake reporter to leak it himself?
‘the respected Panorama veteran’
Yes, Panorama has done much of late that warrants respect.
Maybe BBC Newsnight/QT could drop everything and get in special correspondent and all round best buddy Hugh Grant to offer insights, especially around what the difference is between accusations and being caught er, bang to rights. There seem aspects of this case he may be able to contribute to.
From then, once proven, ‘Toff on divine ratings, toff on the causes of divine ratings’.
Forgiveness and forgetting possibly being what toff does what and which media approves, or not, and when.
For a wimmin’s view, Mrs. Smiff may also serve well on the guest list of ‘experts’, if the ‘but you don’t get to ask me on…’ riders can be swallowed with any integrity intact.
Wasn’t Mrs. “Smiff” ridiculed at the Police Federation conference for her use of “relaxing” cigarettes?
hope the guy that nicked a litre of water an got 6 months is taking note
Years later said young man assumes important influence in Political party, persuades new leader to hire someone, who may or may not have compromising evidence of former social habits and may or may not have authorised hacking phones, to act as press go-between, while proposed advisor is also possibly still in employ or social circle of a major News organisation, who’s main remit is to influence global power to its policy views, while pretending to be the voice of the people.
You couldn’t make it up (and get published).
Nothing to read here, move along please.
Coke links a number of people within the Cameron set and of course amongst their wider circle of media mates.
Ahhh…but which person was the dealer, the lad who sorted everyone out?
He did exist and his name is very well known.
Do tell.
Yes ,I heard he was a prominent member of the Labour party.
Ok…it was me….Baldwin owes me, and Bliar, and Ku Nty Campbell!
I admit it
Haha Guido your Tory chums are in for it now.
who gives a ….old uninteresting red top tittletattle
Yawn !!!
You missed your full name…
An Ex scum PM arse says:
You have been rumbled again Gordon!
Good – hopefully it will be the same sort of hard-hitting expose they did about Stephen Purcell, Glasgow Council, cocaine and gangster connections.
Oh – that one was hushed up and the BBC stayed well away.
Quelle surprise
Funny how he was fit enough to meet Fat Boy Brown at a SLAB function only days before a sudden resignation and disappearance from sight.
whats happnin bout that coke sniffin fraudster?
My estermation of George has just gone up 100 fold
nice bit of political neutrality as usual from the bbc…..
will they be doing a story on tom baldwin, after all there is a News International angle there so being balanced i imagine they will……
Will the BBC investigate Gordons hooker/beard and what drugs he took while in office?
And for balance an expose on Kennedy and his one man attempt to support the Scottish Whisky Industry.
And for further balance an expose on McMental’s various “problems”.
We are clearly going to have an attempt to put Laws into play as Chancellor, or good forbid that lunatic Cable.
Now we know why he’s up for a bit of quantitative easing. There’s never enough fifty pound notes to snort with.
Gordon Brown made sure of that.
Strangely, this might strengthen Cameron’s hand in the longer term. In the short term it means he’ll lose a close and trusted Leiutenant, but hey-ho, that’s politics.
Osborne will have to go if links between him and Coulson are proved, relating to hushed-up stories when Coulson was editor rewarded by top government job when Osborne had influence.
If Cameron can honestly say that he was in the dark about all this, and demanded Osborne’s scalp as soon as it came to his notice – unacceptable in the new moral climate, blah, blah..
The Spinners will be hard at it now, I’ll wager.
Its the banksters of course, dirty tricks designed to stop Osburn from forcing a Glass Steagall on them and cutting their economy-wrecking bonus culture.
Doubt it.
If Osborne doesn’t implement the Vickers report because he has to resign, the next guy in the job will.
What about Mandleson’s drug habit.
Ah ! but that is different ,he is Labour.
Yes, those south american boys are a little bit moreish………
I’m having a good laugh. All the right-wing tabloid posters who are usually so vociferous about anything like drugs etc are soooo… relaxed about Osborne and try to divert the prat’s antics by diversions about – the BBC. This continual BBC bashing has become very tiresome and the Tory boys/girls should think up something more original
And how many BBC reporters and staff have had drug related issues?
Surely this will be the making of Osborne, who comes over as rather boring?
Those Osbornes–rather a dodgy family dont you think ?
Greasy George Osborne
when he resigns I wonder….?
Will Natalie Rowe be charged with admitting to taking the white powder?. She certainly knows how to make enemies.
Damn! It is on at the same time as antique masters and it is the final. So I won’t be watching Panorama. Now pass me my slippers dear.
Cant wait to see how Cameron deals with this
It’s going to be a car-crash…
It is a well-known fact that Coulson was not the first choice for the post. If I remember correctly, and I am not even British, the first choice guy got married and then moved to Australia or the USA. The second choice was also not available. Even Kevin McGuire mentioned in Press Preview on Skynews last night that Coulson was appointed because the party urgently needed to fill the post.