James Murdoch Skewers Hunt
James Murdoch has given the British establishment another lesson in mid-Atlantic business speak this morning. The long drawn out discussion has thrown up some interesting snippets so far. Not least was the discussion around a Christmas dinner foolishly attended by the Prime Minister at Rebekah Brooks’ house, which Guido broke a day before the Guardian claimed the scoop. You read it right here first…
Murdoch Jr. confessed that the BSkyB bid had come up at said dinner: “It was a tiny side conversation, it was not a discussion.” Which is somewhat different to what government spinners have said previously. A nervous No.10 will be thinking it could have been a lot worse, but this is still a potential breach of the Ministerial Code as Labour pointed out at the time.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt was not so lucky though. Murdoch coughed that Hunt was essentially his back-channel point man for the deal after Vince Cable made clear that a meeting was not going to happen. The chief inquisitor Mr Jay called him Hunt a “cheerleader” and his statements made to the Commons on the matter are looking a little shaky this afternoon…
UPDATE: Rumour reaches Guido that correspondence between Hunt, his SpAds and the Murdochs in regard to BSkyB will be published by the inquiry later. It is said to be very bad news for Hunt.
UPDATE II: Hundreds of pages of emails will be released covering conversations with Hunt’s staff and Murdoch staff. At 4pm…
The BBC are going to et themselves with this.
“wet”
Well, Camoron declared himself a great supporter of the BBC, so he deserves everything he gets from that odious organisation
Camoron, an un trustworthy self serving nest feathering lying toad. no better then Blair.
Please Santa please send us a true Tory conviction politician, to replace the corrupt lying EU supporting bastard that we have now
W
What is an R,B.?
Its a bit of a shame, but what a monumental Fu-k up that the STATE are responsible. You cant tell me that GCHQ didn’t know of the hacking of ministers phones or prince charles or any other person who they follow. Why the Fu-k did they not put a stop to it earlier, or was it an arms length transaction and tool to control those in the public eye.
Any Closet politician would be shitting themselves, Why did the NOW hold back? What Black mail was used? These intelligence tools had to be used we will never know how and by who.
And here comes Rupert to get his revenge! What’s that saying about falling between two stools?
What does omnishambles mean? Everyone around here keeps on saying it.
From “Omni”, meaning “all”, and “Shambles” meaning “an old street in York, with overhanging timber-framed buildings”
oh yeah methinks to meself
Fuck off Βillу.
Fuck off modbot, sir.
It is a more polite way of saying, FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) or SNAFU (Situation Normal. All Fucked Up).
Or WAFUM (What A Fucked Up Mess)
Or TARFU (Things Are Really Fucked Up)
Or JANFU (Joint Army Navy Fuck Up)
Or SUSFU (Situation Unchanged, Still Fucked Up)
Or BOHICA (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again)
Or FISHDO (Fuck It, Shit Happens, Drive On)
Or FIIGMO (Fuck It, I’ve Got My Orders)
Оr SUSFU (Sіtuаtіоn Unchаngеd, Stіll Fuckеd Up)
Оr BОHІCА (Bеnd Оvеr, Hеrе Іt Cоmеs Аgаіn)
Оr FІSHDО (Fuck Іt, Shіt Hаppеns, Drіvе Оn)
Оr FІІGMО (Fuck Іt, І’vе Gоt My Оrdеrs)
or Clusterfuck
Fubarite. A geological term – a rock or mineral that is difficult to identify.
Or SABU (Self Adjusting Bal*s Up)
Or GAFU (God Almighty F*ck Up)
Fancy that, and here I thought it referred to the days when abattoirs were called “shambles,” and the vision it was supposed to conjure up was all sorts of offal and bodily fluids lying about. “Omnishambles” = blood, guts and crap as far as the eye can see.
I think you will find that Murdoch is no fool and he is deliberately stitching up Dave for setting up the Leveson inquisition. He will turn his fire on Miliband next.
I hope he fucking destroys both of them!
yop
And where is the investigation into what deals labour did with the Murdoch empire when labour were in power? And what deals were done between the labour government, the Met police and the rest of the media at the time?
I thought that the Leveson inquiry was to look into everything surrounding the hacking and the corrupt relationship between media, police and government at the time..
However all the stuff that happened under labour’s watch and in other labour supporting media at the time has been completely ignored and the focus appears to be on nailing Murdoch and the tories.
What the fuck is going on?
It’s the way the Left do business. With 90% of the media led by the BBC behind them they call the shots.
Steady on Ned. The self-important bunch of c*unts responsible for administering justice don’t like it when you question what the fuck they’re playing at.
The contemptible c*unts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17822351
In court this morning, Mr Larkin made it clear that he was not arguing that all criticism of judges was contempt of court.
However, he said criticism which undermined public confidence in the administration of justice should not be permitted.
Contemptible, self important, self-serving, oppressive, censoring shower of c*unts.
Aye. We have to have confidence in the legal system and so anybody who questions it or criticizes it must be jailed. So that we can have confidence in the system. Have judges assumed divine prerogative now? Are they not to be questioned?
Well that will certainly speed up the app*eals process.
Welcome to the Alice in Wonderland Justice system.
Apocryphal story of Mae West appeering in Court to keep her Broadway show, “Sex,” from being declared obscene and shuttered:
Judge: “It seems the Defendant is attempting to show her contempt for this Court!”
Mae West: “Hey, Your Honour, I’m doing my damnedest to conceal it!”
Welcome to my world. Want to buy a Zimbabwean Corn on the Cob yours for 300 000 000 000 000 Zimbabwean dollars very cheap! I love the Chinese soon they will run my country for me!
I am beginning to wonder if Tony Blair, Alistair Campell, Peter Mandelson and Gordon Brown were not joined in the early days of New Labour by David Cameron and George Osborne. Did they send them in to do to the Conservatives, what Blair, Mandelson et al did to labour?
Why else is the Leveson Inquiry ignoring what labour were doing in power when the hacking was actually happening?
The answer to questions like that is usually fear.
Perhaps. But it looks as though Jim Naughtie was right all along.
jeremy hunt a lying Hunt,
dave posh boy cameron should sack him for leaking everything to the james murdock
Manuel strikes again “I know nothing”
I really don’t give a shit
Neither do I to be honest, I mean how long does this charade have to go on for.
zzzzzzzzzzz
Makes watching paint dry interesting, it’s not as if any of them are gonna be hung drawn and quartered is it? No entertainment value whatsoever. My navel fluff suddenly looks intriguing.
I Leveson’s charging us by the hour, my guess is this will go on for as long as he can drag it out.
He might be charging by the hour. But his big pay-off will come from the verdict.
Which we must all pretend we didn’t know in advance.
What did he lose and why?
Virginity?
Sounds good.
Is that Perry the Tory totty?
A wad of seman
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.conservatives.com/~/media/Images/Content%2520Images/People/Prospective%2520Candidates/claire-perry.ashx&imgrefurl=http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Perry_Claire.aspx&h=206&w=137&sz=14&tbnid=lxKGIDPnwGDjtM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=60&zoom=1&docid=XU4uXdPI8O9RNM&sa=X&ei=qKCWT9LPDYrD0QXUmpSSDg&ved=0CFIQ9QEwAw&dur=3395
Perry was tremendous, a real gift for opponents of the Tories. She was arrogant, aggressive, decietful, obnoxious and rude, quite an achievement. Please, please, please, get her on as many times as possible. She is electoral gold, for anyone but the Conservative party.
She’s the rather haughty jolly hockey sticks one, isnt she?
Fond of her own voice, but her level should be dropping the kids off off to school and making jam for the church fete (not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course)
Unusual for you Brillo, what’s up did she knock your syrup on the floor or something?
I am still wondering why Murdoch hasn’t opened the old NOTW safe and dropped a few of the backstabbing MPs right in the shit…
Perhaps he is waiting for the outcome of the inquiry first, to see who needs to be nailed hardest to the wall.
Either that or there is some conspiracy to eradicate any conservative opposition to the “third way” lefty liberal corporatism which is ruining this country and is rife across the EU.
If you have an IED, it works better if you have something over it when it goes off. Murdochs are always looking at least a couple of years down the line. They have already started making their moves. Maximus’ tip: watch Alex the Salmon. When Alex starts to leap, watch how the Pasty Boy is going to sweat. The moment will be almost then.
And another little tell. In 1997 who went to see who? That’s right – Miranda flew half way across the world to practice her fellatio skills. In 2012 who went to see who?
The Guardian is forever claiming scoops they’ve stolen from others, maybe they could tell us when Ken gonna publish, now that would be a scoop.
What an absolute Jeremy.
Snowdrops and daffodils
Butterflies and bees
Sailboats and fishermen
Things of the sea
Wishing-wells
Wedding bells
Early morning dew
All kinds of everything remind me of poo
Yes, dear. Very poetic, Mr. Brown. Seeing your butterflies reminds me that the ladies have been complaining of a rather salty tang to the Lurpak in recent days. Please stop it.
Newsreaders everywhere saying a silent prayer.
Dinnae ken glasgae rhyming slang.
To all londoners.
Please, please make sure Ken does not get voted in as Mayor.
The main reason being that if he overturned ‘Galloway proportion odds’ with ‘all the right wing wing, and some of the left wing, press against him’ we’ll never, ever hear the end of it.
BBC working flat out to deliver London victory to Labour and Kevin Liversausage.
Londoners?
What the hell are they these days? Most Londoners have been “enriched” out of the place.
London is quickly becoming a place where the dogs step in human shit
Dogs fear to tread and a handkerchief is an unknown article.
If Dave has to go, will Nick be the PM?
What a horrible thought.
Slightly OT:
“Mr Cameron’s three-point lead a month ago has been replaced by an eight-point lead for Labour leader Ed Miliband.
A YouGov poll for The Sun put Labour on 45 per cenr, 13 points ahead of Tories on 32 per cent.
David Cameron sought yesterday to blame the Government’s recent difficulties on communication problems.” – Daily Mailygraph
“communication problems”? Too right. The public are talking but he ain’t listening.
Very true. In fact it is finally seeping through to a ridiculously patient public, that Cameron has never fucking listened to the British people.
He does listen if you give him £250,000 first. So I’m told.
He get’s all his policy ideas by listening to the jolly crowds at the Notting Hill Carnival as they pass by his window.
Most Notting Hill residents use private security companies to guard their properties during “Carnival”. Whilst they retreat out of the place until after the streets have been cleared and the blood, piss and shite, is washed off the pavements.
And ironically EdM has been on holiday and not opened his mouth.
That is an important factor that I had foolishly not considered.
It is no coincidence that Brown’s popularity plummeted from the second he became PM. No longer wheeled out for a single well-rehearsed budget speech once a year but subject to daily questioning and media coverage. Suddenly the public realised why the economy was so fucked and why the Maximum Imbecile was so incapable of fixing it.
Same goes for Vacant Ned. While his whiny, nasal head-prefect voice and Wallace-off-Wallace-and-Grommit face is kept out of voter consciousness then he has a chance in opinion polls. The problem for Vacant Ned comes the second voters get a glimpse of him or hear him sp*eak.
And, like Kinnock, they have to ask themselves ‘Is this really the person I want to be negotiating around a table with the Russians or the French or the yanks…? Is this really the face I want projected of the UK around the world as the embodiment of bulldog spi*rit..?’
any one of putins recent shites would defeat neddy the edd
The trouble is that cameron thinks that to govern is to talk. He has not actually done anything, except have a few photos taken. The public can sense his laziness.
Cameron is not lazy, the errand boy works very hard for his masters.
Never underestimate the art of doing nothing when in government.
When you look at the utter clusterfuck the last crowd of jackasses made by attempting to app*ear busy. Changing this, changing that, tweaking the other..
If Cameron would actually do nothing then it would be a great mercy. For starters we’d be 6 or 7bn quid better from money we hadn’t handed the I*r*ish. And another 10bn quid better off for the money we didn’t hand to the IMF. And so on and so forth.
Quite so, but if he actually did do something – like undoing and repealing all the shit we have had heaped on us during the dark reign maybe he would earn some real brownis points from the voters.
Yes, but if he actually did do something – like undoing and repealing all the shit heaped on us during the Labour years, just maybe he will start to earn some real brownie points with the voters.
Sod it, forget me veggies again!
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Quite so, but if he actually did do something – like undoing and repeeeeling all the shit we have had heaped on us during the dark reign maybe he would earn some real browwnie points from the voters.
I dont work for Murdoch I work for you the people of Britain visit my web site it clearly says so……..would I lie?
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/david_cameron/witney
No, it’s all misspeak these days, not lying in any sense at all.
No, it’s all misspеаk these days, not lying in any sense at all.
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Now here’s the weather with Laura Tobin.
Least he hasnt let in all the foreigners like Labour did
Yes he has. Immigration is still increasing.
It’s like trying to clear up an oil slick with your bare hands.
No one said it would be easy but where there’s a will there’s a way.
I think we can conclude there is no will.
Although the issue is somewhat top of the list as far as the public’s concerned, it doesn’t factor on Dave’s radar.
Where there’s a will there’s a long lost relative looking for their cut.
I’m sorry but I need to enquire, are you on psychotropic drugs or in receipt of any mental heath care at the moment?
I think you may find the answer to that here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
I might be mistaken.
I can’t understand why everyone is pissed off with Dave. Has he not promised, a referendum on the EU, to halt immigration, not to give one penny more to the Euro zone and to tell the ECHR to fuck off?
What Heir-to-Blair says and what he does are, sadly, two very different things.
To whit: he imposed ever-increasing economy-strangling green taxes on us to force us to reduce our CO2 emissions, yet when in Washington DC he got on board the Presidential Boeing 747 for a 70-minute flight to watch a basketball match then hopped back on the Boeing 747 for the 70 minute return-flight to DC.
I think the plane was going with or without him. He might as well have a joy-ride. And the thought that the Maximum Imbecile would have been chewing his tongue and spitting blood giving it..
‘It’s not fair – I used to be PM too and I had to settle for a couple of words in the hotel kitchen – that should have been me. I saved the world you know…’
Well that makes it worth every ounce of CO2.
Well Jeremy hunt is a gonner now. Dynamite just released at Leveson.
A shame really as I quite like him.
So did the cross-dressing MI6 spy they found dead in a self-locking hold-all.
All the nice boys do.
The new MP for Tottenham
Brilliant.
This Travon…??
Maybe this Travon…?
and Cameron promised to clean up politics LOL
another lie from the spin doctor Blair Mk 11
I don’t know whether it was vanity or stupidity that caused Cameron to think that socialising with Murdoch and his disgusting entourage could be at all to his benefit.
Whatever-he is now very damaged goods indeed. He’s even made Cable look statesmanlike. The heir to Blair.
Presumably Hunt’s toast.
Let them eat pasties!
bell tolling (for someone reading this blog perhaps?!)
Bongggg! Bongggggg! Bongggggg!
If this was WWE wrestling, The Undertaker would turn up and kill Hunt and Cameron.
Hunt did incur The Wrath Of God, by recently suing Christian radio. Divine retribution?
And the old question still unanswered: did the Murdoch stable hack the phone of Hunt before the election, we should be told what dirt they might have had on him, for dirt they had.
We are definitely “All in this Together”
Hunt- never trust a Carthusian, especially the variety of scum that floats to the top.
Chris Bryant’s chum Evgeny Lebedev is making smart alec tweets about Hunt. That explains why Lebedev was treated with kid gloves by Leveson yesterday. He’s one of Leveson’s collaborators who can’t wait to get his hands on Sky.
How many times a day is Robert Jay required to mention The Guardian in order to qualify for his advertising fees?
In my considered and professional opinion based on studies of similar subjects over many years the tenor of Mr Runt’s eyes belie him to be on the borders of sociopathic insanity .
Again based on my multi year experience this marks him out as an eminently suitable candidate for a future Prime Minister.
Moddy are you asleep ? You’ve allowed shrodinger two identical insertions at 2.35 and 2.38 .