Campbell Briefing Tapes Could Destroy His Leveson Evidence
Some of you more stuffy types might have missed the thinly veiled threat at the end of Trevor Kavanagh’s column in this morning’s Sun:
“ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, who once played the media like a fiddle, has the nerve to accuse the Press of being “putrid”. He is fortunate lobby journalists never reveal their sources. Otherwise a queue of hacks could reveal how Alastair routinely dripped poison into their ears about everyone – then swore them to secrecy. Luckily, some of us kept a diary.”
Campbell’s evidence last week went down like a cold cup of sick with hacks of a certain age. There is widespread irritation at being lectured by the man who is more responsible than most for the cynicism of the modern media in this country. Trevor Kavanagh got a kicking from Bad Al, but something tells Guido he will come to regret doing that. Word of these diaries is spreading like wildfire. There is talk of the dates, times and locations of meetings where Campbell “dripped poison”. Oh and Guido hopes the technologically advanced Lord Leveson has a tape player…
Campbell , i hope karma comes and bites you on the arse!
Is Karma the name of a very large crocodile?
Karma’s a chameleon
Billy – you have been caught out lying and stealing lines from other websites. Is it not time for you to take a full refund and fuck off?
Billy always disappears when challenged like this – he is a consummate coward.
I hope it bites him just after it’s bitten Toilets Maguire – should have the same effect as a monitor lizard bite.
I’d prefer it to be a gila monster
He will feign another nervous breakdown for sympathy, perhaps ?
Campbell has had his comeuppance coming for a long, long time. That sordid, lying disgusting sack of shit should fry for what he has done.
Its enough to drive a man to drink….hopefully.
Are you suggesting doing a Clarkson on him ??
“Campbell has had his comeuppance coming for a long, long time”
Cambell has had a 9mm in the temple coming for a long long time!
Will matey Campbell be admitted soon with nervous breakdown? I hope so.
Campbell is the kind of manipulative bastard who would entirely manufacture stories of ‘al*c*ho*l*ism’ and ‘depression’ in order to defuse the profound loathing he engenders in people.
You know, ‘Oh, well, he may have been responsible for spreading lies resulting in the Ir*aq war and the de*a*th of D r K e l l y but we must show some compassion. Because he’s depressed.’
Oh do fuck off.
He’s depressed? You think he’s got problems? What about M r s K e l l y?
If I went out and killed half a dozen folk and argued, in mitigation that I had a dr*i*nk problem or ‘depression’ I’d be laughed out of court. Yet we’re supposed to cut this wicked and malicious fucker some slack when his lies are responsible for far more deaths?
Exactly JGM. He’s fucking depressed ! How fucking depressed does he think we are after 13 years of his mendacious, dissembling shite!
Think .50 calibre. The results are far more devastating than 9mm.
Best do it outdoors though or your ears will be ringing for months afterwards.
Think Nike. Just do it.
And of course the journos hung on his every word lapping every last drop up, I do hope that they checked up the facts before going to print
Hopefully he’s got some shit on Piers Morgan as well
And how about …
B – L – A – I – R ?
Shit on B£iar ?? This is a job for former Fibdem MP Mark Oa7en.
I hope no one is ever going to propose Bliar for an ermine collar.
preferably a hemp collar
Spelt B – ‘ L – I – A – R , most probably. I wonder if B’Liar will also apply for Isreali citizenship after his “peace job”
Bloody “Peace Job”. I hope he is given some prime real estate within range of Gaza based missiles. I do hope he doesn’t come back to the UK (except in a box).
Wow
Guido is my hero
Sarah wont be pleased.
The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman today said Mr Duncan Smiths’ interpretation of the law was incorrect.
“That is not what is set out in the Act,” the spokesman said.
“The Act talks about triggering a referendum if there is a transfer of power or competence to Brussels,” he added.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8935685/Downing-St-insists-there-will-be-no-EU-referendum-despite-Iain-Duncan-Smiths-demands.html
Who’s right ? Iain Duncan Smith or David Cameron ? There’s only one way to find out…..Fight !!!
Call a General Election that will sort it out, not interested in handbags at dawn with thees trash politicians, let the people of this country sort it out NOW.
In my vendetta against the Prius I manage to destroy eight Aston Martins, one Lamborghini and three Mercs. Cool eh?
Cameron is a well known liar, IDS is correct.
Camerons duplicitous EU fanaticism will never allow the ballot box to decide.
Deny us the ballot box to free ourselves of the socislist EU, please do not grumble when we turn to bombs & bullets to achieve the self determination & freedom from foreign tyranny that previous generations of British citizens paid a heavy price to win for us.
Other politically federalist European tyrannys:
* Communism
* Socialism
* Fascism
* National Socialism.
See the pattern yet? The EU is worse than all of the above combined – it will be defeated.
The EU will defeat itself. Whilst we in England don’t have much history for bombing things (well, other than Germany), that is not true in places such as Spain, Italy, Greece and, indeed, Germany where, I am sure, similar conversations to this are taking place. I doubt our foreign friends will be averse to blowing-up local EU offices.
Hopefully the very few decent Conservative MPs will soon force Cameron to give us the referendum he’s already promised to us three times (cast-iron guarantee; the Con 2010 manifesto; his laughable “referendum lock”), but which he now insists is completely unacceptable.
Funny how the referendum wasn’t unacceptable when he was begging us for our votes.
Not at all funny Tessa T (assuming you mean “funny” in the sense of “strange” or “peculiar”).
Politicians will say anything that chimes with the popular view to win votes;they always have & always will.
The EU is neither socialist or communist. Or straightforwardly capitalist.
It is a political union designed to keep European politicians and corporations from being answerable to national electorates, governments and interests.
The EU have recently opened a visitor centre in Brussels that states national sovereignty is “evil” and federalism is good. This undemocratic monster needs kicking and we want our In/Out EU referendum Camoron!!
You’ve posted this previously. Boring.
What! You mean UKIP loons copy and paste the same crap over and over into internet forums!
Well I never would have guessed!
Do feel free to sod off back to CamHome with the other Tory traitors.
Sophie, give it a rest you rabid harpy.
You have to repeat things for the remnants of the Conservative party, they are a bit slow.
+ ever so many grumpy.
Do spin doctors shit on people in the woods!
Is Blair going to run for Pope?
I’m more saintly than the pontiff.
No at the moment he is married but he maybe become a priest “Catholic Anglican) then try to get the law that the pope should not be married arguing that they were 17 centuaries ago
Important stuff for the god botherers I suppose. It all proves to me that as a none believer, it just don’t amount to a hill of beans.
Was the Pope a Nazi?
Nazi youth league they all had to
Yes, all wannabe Pontiffs had to join.
Not as much a B-Liar
Only a little bit.
When people with dubious morals talk about the dubious morals of others you know there’s a good chance you’re listening to a tabloid journalist or ex-journalist talking about their “breed”.
Always hoped that Ali C would come to a bad end.
Let’s hope that Trevor K has the goods and is prepared to spill same.
Arn’t we all expectant? Come on Trev!!
Al Campbell will probably (successfully) sue Trevor Kavanagh for breach of promise. After all – he lied to Kavanagh in the strictest confidence.
I think that to sue successfully there has to be an element of untruth somwhere in the matter ?
No, one can be sued for breach of confidence, although i think AC would have do demonstrate that there was some consequential loss.
If TK was forced to spill the beans in court or at an enquiry, however, AC couldn’t touch him. Might put people off giving TK tips in the future though.
What about sales for Volume II of the diaries/memoirs.
Lock the bastard in an off licence and wait.
Still waiting for MuckShane, Udin & Co. In addition the bastards who only served 5 minutes of their light sentences should be re-prosecuted, have their taxpayer funded illegaly obtained goods confiscated and serve proper stretches.
u iz a racialist init?
Who said men can’t multi-task? Look carefully at that picture and you can see Campbell telling two separate lies to two different people simultaneously.
Mendacity and Hypocrisy. It’s in Liebour’s D-N-A.
you forgot self-righteousness
Does a large ego bursting make a mess?
I hope not.
One more waffffer thin press release Mr
CreosoteCampbell?It’s always a pleasure to watch this:
Jeremy jumps to Alkis defence right at the end, both tossers
Alky Ada ???? Watch out for those Weapons of Mass Destruction !
The Establishment know full well what a disgrace Campbell and Blair were to public life in this once fine land.Which is why Blair will be the ist Prime Minister, not to receive the ultimate accolade and what he craves for above all else namely,being made a Knight of The Garter. As there is always many years delay before this gold star of gold star is awarded, no decision re Brown is being taken, as it is confidently expected he is likely to be sectioned well before his inclusion as a KG falls due.
Thats a relief I thought you were going to say KGB there for a minute
And since when has being a disgrace stopped the Establishment giving status to those who have been useful? Who do you think saved the monarchy-Mickey Mouse?
Half a brain cell v a QC (and I am no fan of Howard neither).
Tedium does not do justice to describing posts like this. Piss off, man.
Feel sorry for Billy. In the great test match of life he’s always getting bowled for double golden ducks.
Please please please get that tape digitised now!
‘Dripped poison’. That was my job !!!
What goes around …
It would give me great pleasure to see this lying scumbag finally brought to account.
… and so say all of us.
I once had great hopes for The Chilcot Inquiry bringing both him and his master to account but it seems that the final report has been not just kicked into the long grass but into outer space
Lucky I kept a diary too. Otherwise you would never have heard about my King Louis, my tender Teddy Bear.
Hello my darling, be seeing you soon; as soon as I can dupe the wife with a makeover.
go on yourself TREV
I think he should be taken outside and shot!
this afternoon i will be polishing turds
That would be wonderful, dear. The ladies generally log-out after luncheon.
It is absoutely terrifying that that unelected buffoon was able to have so much sway over the Labour Party and tried to swing and spin the press. As a taxpayer I would love to know what he spun and think the SUn should tell us. Everytime I see his opinion be sought on TV and him making more money for being essentially an unelected ‘voice’ I want to vom. I see now on Twitter that he wants to advise Louise Mensch about speaking to Leveson etc…
I hope when Mr Campbell lies in bed at night he thinks long and hard about the WMD lies that led to the death of tens of thousands of people. Whilst we’re at it – my respect for MP’s, journalists etc who court and value his opinion plumets when I see them.
They are all a shower of low life and it is pleasing to see them tear each other to shreds
Hope you’ve got it safely locked away in a secret and secure vault with a trusted solicitor Trev, In the event of my untimely death etc.
‘Trusted solicitor’….?
Be still my aching sides.
OK he’s fucked.
Yes there is a reason prostitution is also called soliciting.
The only two professions to have ‘clients’. Everybody else has ‘customers’.
Odd that…
Even better, why do all legal firms list “Criminal Lawyers”–redundant statement, surely?
Campbell is a lying, bullying t w a t of the 1st water. My daughter was on the end of a rant from him and she was quite sickened.
Who dripped the most poison into the British media ?
Bad Al
Madoff Mandelson or
Damian McBride ?
FFS why did these people ever exist ?!
Because we had a Liebour ‘government’.
Chicken and egg.
Without Cambell’s control of the media would Blair have managed to be elected three times?
Once perhaps. But after the lies that gave us the Iraq war he’d have been on shaky grounds without the BBC being brought to heel and NI cheerleading the ‘economic miracle’.
Interesting but all in the past – for the future watch ones called Balls.
What a lying little toad he is.
I hope in those diaries , or on that tape, where the slimy alycampbell is dripping poison, there is evidence of some of the shameful disgusting things he said about d r d a v i d k e l l y.
I sincerely hope that Mr Kavanagh has been advised by his friends to steer clear of any woods or lonely places.
Where will a needy Kavanagh have a shit?
Campbell is ont the BBC a lot, says it all.
The BBC crap themselves at the mere mention of his name, they nearly gave him his own series on prime time years ago, Campbell has more than enough on them for a little bl@ckmail when it suits him and they know it.
There may be trouble ahead hahahahahahahaha
5Live went their own way on the day’s news headline this morning, the riots happened ‘cos people were angry with the police! Yeah…right
Most of the current hierarchy at the BBC owe their careers to Blair and Campbell.
And Hutton.
I remember a few years ago a former BBC employee gave evidence in some court hearing in which she stated she had been offered cocaine on her first day at The BBC. Reminds one of the corrupt Police forces where new recruits were “gifted” stolen property on their arrival at their stations. Once accepted meant they were now involved in the corruption and would kept stoom about what was going on.
IMHO, the media bubble is, indeed, a closed set with a tiny overlap into the set that represents real, working people. We are not interested in your internals: we buy a rag, look at the headlines, read the fanciful weather forecast and, if you’re lucky, check out the sporting news and horoscopes. Other than that, we don’t actually care what hacks/spinners/lobby munchers say/do/think and it may be time for you to realise you are all talking amongst yourselves for your own amusement.
No replies. You must be one of ‘hers’
Good afternoon! Here is the whether forecast:
There will be some precipitation over the Juras. Some dusting of Lemsip will reach lower levels. One or two strong squalls are expected but will come to nothing.
Apart from that it is not a question of whether but when. An announcement is expected shortly.
And now I hand you back to Two-Way Family Favourites…
I prefer the Paps of Jura to the whisky.
I know. All those hyperbolic paraboloids…
this afternoon I will drinking warm Campbell’s soup
It’s so warming it makes you glow in the dark.
And God said Let there be light. And there was movement on the Geiger counter.
would that be Campbell’s turtle soup?
Sod Bad Al Guido, what about Cameron’s slapdown of IDS on the potential Euro referendum?
I’d re-word that as “what about Cameron’s slapdown of the British public on the potential Euro referendum?”
I would love an in/out referendum too but if the 17 dopey states in the Eurozone agree to co-operate more or even merge is it really any of our business? Whilst Tobin tax would be disaster to us the 17 eurozone countries either already have the power to foist it on us through QMV or they don’t in which case they couldn’t create that right by coming to an agreement between themselves.
Maybe I’m missing something but I dont see why we dont just let them get on with it
The eurozone 17 are about to change from being lemmings to being lemmings handcuffed together.
Murdoch editor accuses spin doctor of lying. Shock!
Let us be truthful….it couldn’t happen to a nicer, deserving guy!
“the man who is more responsible than most for the cynicism of the modern media in this country”
Yeah, right. Don’t mention Bernard Ingham.
Ha ha ha
There is nothing to see or hear here.
We allow Mr. Soup a good deal of airtime as he had a good deal of experience at the very highest level of a wonderful, caring, equality for all government.
To criticise would be to denigrate those with mental health issues and alcohol problems which makes you a fascist as well as an enemy of the state and we are going to tell Sir.
Thank you for your money.
The referended lock seemed like a good idea at the time. Haaaaaaaaa
You mean the Murdoch press didn’t like his evidence? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Of course I find the premise that they are sitting on a mound of incriminating material that they have hitherto refrained from publishing out of pure generosity as plausible as anything else that gets published here.
‘Evidence’?
I think you’re being overly generous about the words of Alistair Campbell. Opinion, hearsay and out-right, bare-faced lies perhaps. But ‘evidence’?
I don’t think so.
We’re talking about Trevor Kavanagh, who probably didn’t phone tap, and his record of actual conversations with Campbell. Sounds fine to me.
Cheerleading for a man whos lies & deceptions caused the deaths of over a million innocent civilians is a new low Jimmy.
Do you Labour types ever think of those Iraqi parents jet washing what remianed of their children off the remaining walls of their homes?
You must be so proud.
And why are you not funny anymore?
‘Any more…’?
Was he ever?
I do my best, although in the funny stakes it’s hard to compete with righties trying to pretend they give a flying fuck about dead arabs.
Regardless of whether ‘righties’, as you call them, give a “flying fuck” or not, it doesn’t excuse you from supporting it, does it.
Supporting what? I have no problem at all with the overthrow of Saddam.
No doubt those pesky WMDs will turn up sometime, eh, Jimmy?
Jesus wept.
Starting a war resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of people on false premises and you have ‘no problem’ with that?
The Labour government telling bare-faced lies to parliament and planting stories in newspapers to justify the war and you have no problem at all with that?
Just so Blair could have a post-parliamentary career giving speeches to the Rotary Club of Michigan.
A severe case of the ol’ Red Rosette Syndrome.
“I have no problem at all with the overthrow of Saddam”.
“Dead Arabs”.
Jimmy, children are children – whether they are Arab or not.
And your party killed them in the tens of thousands in Iraq based on lies.
Supporting an illegal war that resulted in the deaths of over 1 million civilians to secure future revenues for The Blair Foundation – Jimmy, get a grip. You are taking Labour tribalism to the point of fanaticism.
You can put that onion away. It doesn’t suit you.
Your slip is showing Jimmy. The onion suits you well enough when it’s deployed in justifying replacing Saddam’s regime.
Not at all. All you Baathist supporters and I are just going to hav to agree to disagree.
I was unaware that Labour’s excuse for the Iraq war was Labour’s philosophical disagreement with the Baathist party.
No wonder newspaper editors printed whatever they were told if this is how Labour reacts to ideological differences.
Contrary to the impression you may have, I’m not a party spokesman. I’m telling you why I have no problem with the overthrow of a vile despotic and genocidal regime which you and your herd appear to believe ought to have been left in place. If you have an argument then make it, but so far all you’ve managed is incoherent abuse.
Contrary to the impression you may have, I’m not a party spokesman.
Hahahaha.
Pull the other one Jimmy. It’s got bells on.
Never mind. My hopes weren’t high.
You are a despicable oaf Jimmy.
Still, at least you are recorded. The internet never forgets.
Oh I don’t know, give somebody enough rope and with any luck eventually they will hang themselves.
Well, let’s just imagine for a minute that some Fleet Street journalists and editors made recordings of telephone conversations they may or may not have had with Mr Campbell when he was in his capacity as Downing Street’s Head of Communications. Now I’m quite sure that Mr Campbell was always entirely proper and correct in his dealings with the said editors and journalists, and would never have dreamed of using intemperate language or threats of any sort, but it seems that some cynical people believe otherwise.
Perhaps it might just be for best if those tapes did surface, just to demonstrate to the public that all those nasty rumours about Mr Campbell are totally unfounded.
After all, we wouldn’t want any misunderstandings, would we?
I’m always puzzled by all these invertebrates whingeing about how they had to alter their copy because Al shouted at them. Do they really think Al is the one who should be embarrassed?
Well, let’s see what happens if those tapes ‘escape’. (Assuming they exist, of course.)
Naaah. They don’t exist. But with a little luck it’ll give Al Campbell a few (more) sleepless nights wondering if this time they’ve got him.
Maybe Gilligan can knock up some notes.
He’ll need a ouija board thanks to Campbell.
You think that’ll stop him?
Good old Gilligan – he really upsets the Labour-economy-destroying-apologists. You’re not Ken Livingston are you? Or Campbell? Or Mandelson?
The shame of the matter is that there weren’t more journalists crawling all over the Labour Mendacity instead of cowed into acquiescence. Then the UK economy might not have been so fucked by Brown and we might have avoided the whole I*raq war debacle.
Well this is a classic example of hackery isn’t it. Hari is (rightly) castigated for faking quotes and using sock puppets to support himself, but Gilligan who does exactly the same is a hero.
What ‘quotes’ did Gilligan fake? I thought D r K e l l y told him in no uncertain terms that Ir*aq did not have WMD. Are you telling me this did not happen? That the government’s own weapons expert did not warn us that Blair was lying?
‘Jimmy”s fanatical desire to defend his friend ‘Al’ in the face of all the facts of the Kelly Affair is truly sickening.
As D r K e l l y and the Hutton enquiry showed – it was not entirely in your health or career interests to stand up to Al Campbell and the Labour Mendacity.
Evil stalks the land in the shape of Al Campbell (and Blair and Brown) and you do yourself no favours cheerleading the likes of the wicked and malicious Campbell.
Pathetic. Anyone who spiked his copy because he was afraid of upsetting Campbell is in the wrong job.
If you say so Jimmy. So, in Labour-apology-land newspaper editors being in the ‘wrong job’ justifies Campbell telling ‘em all manner of lies resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and making the UK (even more of) a target for head-banging nutters.
Jinkies.
I suppose it’s the same Labour-land argument that justified Brown destroying the UK economy. After all – somebody should have stopped him. The fact that they didn’t means that it’s all okay. Them all being in the ‘wrong job’ and all.
Now that Campbell is in a position to have very little influence over anything, I’m sure all those journalists will treat him with the same courtesy and consideration he extended to them all those years ago.
So your complaint now is that we upset Al Qaeda? I give up.
But engineer – clearly Campbell is still in a position of influence. Hence his appearance at the Leveson Show Trial.
But engineer – clearly Campbell is still in a position of influence. Hence his app*earance at the Leveson Show Trial.
Who mentioned Alki Ada? I didn’t.
Sorry Eng, responding to jgm’s hissy fit.
Still spinning that I*raq was entirely justified and a great foreign policy achievement?
Hundreds of thousands dead just so that Blair could suck up to Bush and have a post parliamentary career on the rubber-chicken circuit.
Proud of that are you Jimmy?
Not spinning anything. I’m expressing a preference for the current Iraqi regime over its predecessor. You are entitled to disagree of course. Righties were quite keen on Saddam back in the day, I remember campuses full of some very shady individuals back when Attila the Hen was sucking up to him. I don’t share your nostalgia for that era.
Expressing a preference for the current Ir*aqi regime while skating over the process that got us there is every bit as disingenuous as we expect from Labour apologists.
So the Iraq War was Fatcha’s fault? Never saw that one coming.
Not skating over it at all, but I just don’t think that waiting for him to be voted out at the next election was likely to be an effective strategy.
Not skating over it? You haven’t mentioned the morality of lying to the press and parliament or hounding an honest man to death at all in the pursuit of a post-parliamentary s*peaking career. Not to mention the consequences to several hundred thousand Ir*aqis.
Not skating over it? You haven’t mentioned the morality of lying to the press and parliament or hounding an honest man to death at all in the pursuit of a post-parliamentary s*p*eaking career. Not to mention the consequences to several hundred thousand Ir*aqis.
True. Nor have I mentioned unicorns, flying pigs or your brain. In each case for the same reason.
Several hundred thousand dead Iraqis not worth a mention Jimmy? All acceptable collateral damage to enable Tony Blair’s post-parliamentary sp*eaking career?
Really?
You may want to look up the phrase “beg the question” and see why you’re not making any headway here.
Jimmy – you are a shameless Labour apologist – but even the Labour party leadership now admits Iraq was a mistake.
You’re off-message. Report back to Labour HQ for re-programming.
So I’m a partisan hack who disagrees with my party’s line?
Say goodnight to the folks Gracie.
As I said – report for reprogramming. The Iraq war was wrong. It has always been wrong.
urrrggghhhhhhh
I think we all know who’s responsible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-QxBTR9_HU
I had tapes too. Fat lot of good it did me.
I know. You can’t possibly comment.
Alistair Campbell says
‘New Labour were not bad people…’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16036061
He would have got on well there. Would have fitted right in.
How would the psychopath know?
I’m sorry but I can’t allow any evidence that might embarrass Labour.
The inquiry chairman is Lord Justice Leveson.
Lord Leveson is someone else.
I’m someone else too.
It was a joy to finally see someone stick it to vile bully Campbell to his face.
Ewa could reduce him to tears wivva coupla well-choosed words..
“Time Gentlemen Please!!” usually does the trick.
“I’ve hidden your Prozac”?
Campbell the manic depresssive retired alcoholic first plied his penis and penned pornography in Southern France before he decided to go straight. He became Capn Bob’s, the renowned pension fund thief, gofer and spokesman. At the Mirror this piece of protoplasm honed his gutter presss skills, destroying reputations and lives. His behaviour was so sordid that he developed a self loathing that would first drive him to drink and the AA and then to depression. Unfortunatley the bully boy did not have the guts to top himself which meant he lived on to unleash his mendacity and corrupt ways in the service of the war criminal Blair. Having outed and then briefed against David Kelly, this piece of dried out dysmenorrhoea shed crocodile tears on the death of Dr Kelly and the 500,000 Iraqis. This piece of filth now tries to rewrite his cv .
The supine press and politicians who allowed themselves to be anally raped by this perverted and toxic alcoholic should be ashamed of themselves.
He’s one guy I would be happy to kick when he’s down, a lot.
If he was up, I’d kick him until he was down, then pass him over to you.
It’s been said that the Press love a Tory sex scandal and a Labour bung scandal, since it points up the hypocrisy of the participants better than vice versa would. So whatever the sword over the head of Alastair Campbell, it had better include pounds and pence. Reporting on pure spite and malice in dealings between Press and Government is just so much self-referential stuff and nonsense on the part of the Press when it doesn’t expose outright criminality on the part of politicians. (Of course, when members of the Fourth Estate are in the pockets of politicians, we’re not likely to hear much criminality reported.) My guess is that somewhere along the way, someone may have found out Alastair Campbell might, just might, have been doing some off-the-record “consulting” which would not have been adequately reflected in declarations of income. He needs to do something to earn the dosh to support a lifestyle befitting a political spin meister besides blogging and the lecture circuit, and books are one-off in terms of the income, i.e. his advance covers what profit to him the publishers think his book will earn, if his contract is like most others (unless they’re happy to eat a loss for the “prestige value” of his by-line). Yeah, it’s a tired cliche all right, but follow the money.
No one has yet shown why Alastair Campbell would feel a need to keep Tom Watson abreast (no man-boob pun intended!) of his statement to the Inquiry unless Tommy Boy needed to know Allie would stay on-message. You do the heavy lifting(pun intended!)
Maybe Al Cam is a ** asset, like Clegg and the BBC’s Frank Gardner are alleged to be.
Here is an example of Mr Campbell at work:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1351529/How-I-caught-Alastair-diary-deceit.html
Leveson having a tape-player? He probably doesn’t even have a fucking gramaphone.
Sad Al sees Guido as a threat to the Labour Party. That’s what the Leveson palava was all about. He saw an opportunity to have a go at Guido and failed. Tell the c’unt to Jog On and take the fat lardy @rse Watson with him.
The BBC are petrified of Campbell. So on This Week I have been asked by the BBC to lick Campbell’s arsehole while Campbell is sucking Bliar’s dick. Eugh!
“There is widespread irritation at being lectured by the man who is more responsible than most for the cynicism of the modern media in this country.”
They didn’t have to report his bullshit and he didn’t have to peddle it.
I’m not one to mock mental illness, even for the hypocritical Campbell, who spouts on about it even though he cannot admit he drove a man to suicide. However, his Leveson session was just baffling. It is like he is a schizophrenic. He has his own worldview regardless of the facts. He can admit no wrong, even to the extent of lying through his teeth. He has a second session next year – on political-media relations – plus the report of the Iraq Inquiry. He’d better learn to deal with the truth pretty quickly.
Campbellgate!! Can’t wait.