NEW #Leveson inquiry says it did briefly discuss emergency hearing over Mail on Sunday story this week – but quickly decided against.—
Josh Halliday (@JoshHalliday) June 19, 2012
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UPDATE: According to the Guardian “Leveson believed an emergency hearing would bring “unnecessary cost” to taxpayer and core participants so decided against it.” Not because it was absurd over-reaction then…
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Stop it.
Im afraid Brian is a fool, this whole enquiry is a farce.Why are we harassing the PM etc ?
Lies. Lies. Lies. And more Lies.
What the fuck are you doing posting on this shite?
Get back to work. Otherwise, I’m sending Samantha over.
You will be hearing from my lawyers sir.
It’s my real name. Check my birth certificate.
I’m working on our next manifesto now.
I see we have two number ones. Is this the coming of the rapture?
I am listening to the Black Eyed Pe/as!
What the Hell is going on?
It cant be the rapture as Im still here.
Ive got a number 2 in my panties
Who’d a thought he was a Brian !!
I’m Bwian.
Angela Merkel?
I would!
Brian is absolutely and wholly and completely right. The public should never have been allowed to know about expenses paid within Westminster. The free press must be stopped before it gets worse. Och Aye!
Someone put the poor fucker out of our misery.
He called Gordon to the enquiry, what the fuck did he expect?
Angela Merkel thinks I’m at work.
The arrogant git was totally out intellectualised by Michael Gove and this is his petulant response.
He now knows he is not as clever as he thought but the arrogance still shines through.
He attained his lofty status during the rein and by the gift of Blair and then Brown. It shows !!!!
rein? Do you mean reign perhaps?
Are to Gove or just his lacky?
“are to Gove” dont you mean “are you Gove”?
Don’t you mean ‘fascist’ instead of ‘facist’?
Tee Hee………
What’s a pedant facist?
Dobbie says:
June 19, 2012 at 2:59 pm
rein? Do you mean reign perhaps?
Are to Gove or just his lacky?
A simple typo you pathetic moron
People used to outintellectualise me.
I simply made sure they had no eyes left and made sure my staff were really well paid
Which is why he’s closing the lid on Motorman which arguably, by implicating virtually the whole of Fleet Street, is a far more serious matter than the witch hunt currently being organised against NI. Oooooops I forgot – burying bad news under a Labour Government is good anything however remotely to do with the tories,including a scandal which happened under Labour’s regime, is a hanging offence.
We need an immediate and full investigation into the whereabouts of the missing number 2 post on this blog. We shall start one straight away and in around 5 years and millions of tax payers money we shall have the recommendations from the appointed Judge.
We shall then rewrite mathematics so that all occurrences of the number 2 are obliterated.
I love the irony of him wanting to censure a minister who dares to say that the enquiry is becoming an enemy of free speech. Brilliant. Sheer brilliance.
It’ll be Dave (or Guido). You’ll be sorry.
Not that he’ll appreciate the irony. Lefties don’t do irony (or morals, or applying laws and standards consistently, or humour, etc).
It is way beyond irony, it is pastiche.
no one in this country is held to be above the law (look out for others to supply names , details of those who are or consider themselves above) and equally judges are not above criticism, comment and reproof
(look out for others to supply names , details of those who are or consider themselves above)
Anyone who can put MP as their title.
Spoken like a true trooper.
It was just like this at the Inquiry into the Titanic although it did help that the Captain had gone down with the ship.
Above the law.
Judge Dread
Harry Calaghan
Charles I
Dr Octopus
Tony Blair
Law is a social construct
At last! A soul mate. (B£iar hater).
The problem is not Leveson or Gordon Brown.
It is that Mickey Grove character.
I mean to say just because he can count from one to ten in Latin he seems to think he is in someway superior to the rest of us.
Latin is a dead language so I cannot see it creating two million real jobs.
Anyway this is how they think in the Colliers.
I think Mr Grove better stay out of Clydach unless he wants an Ed Milliband non NHS nose job.
Just trying to help.
Nil illegitimi carborundum
Roman numerals only go up to 999,9999.
They reckoned they wouldn’t need a million of anything.
Like the Greeks then. It’s Gove innit? (not Grove).
Salve ! They figured without Labour’s spending then, didn’t they !
Jesus even people who live in clydach keep out of clydach, had any good murders lately
I can’t believe this show trial is STILL going on.
Who the f**k cares?!
I do
So “Leveson believed an emergency hearing would bring “unnecessary cost…”, what bluster, I think the word “unnecessary” covers it, Is his one of the finest legal minds of our times?.
‘Is his one of the finest legal minds of our times?’
if it is that explains why our legal system is in such a mess.
I’m going to do Leveson the musical. It will run for 30 years to sell out audiences
I think you will find it is the tribunal that has sold out to the BBC/Grauniad axis of grinding axes.
BBC News sit is attributing Guido: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18506001
Welcome to all you BBC loving link clickers. Be aware – this ain’t the fucking Guardian
I suspect there are a few pay days in all this.
It’s just Leveson getting into the Olympic Spirit.
The original Greek messenger at Marathon popped his clogs after delivering his message, but Guido is made of stronger stuff. When he reports of receiving a bullet in the mail, then is the time to worry.
Modern day Political exposure is a marathon in itself when the division of opposing forces has become lost in the mists of time.
Having printed off the text of the bbc piece – something to note.
“Mr gove told a press gellery lunch in Febrary that there was “a chilling atmosphere towards freedom of expression which emanates from the debate around Leveson” [end quote of bbc piece.
“Freedom of Expression” – is what we the public are entitled to cite when Ministers MP’s and judicials clearly have no intention to be totally transparent and open with regard to what is “Clearly in the Public Interest”.
Freedom of the press is not Freedom of Expression – and as for the claims of “a free press” oh please DA-Notice me now.
Legals, cops, the cps et all – have for years claimed that certain things will not be revealed – ‘because it’s not in the public interest’. Yeah right – it’s not in the interest of those concealing multiple crimes that the public should know that its them lot who’ve been at it for decades. It’s called a “Closed Shop”.
Any news on The Chilcot Inquiry or has it all been accidentally shredded?
Im afraid a senior civil servant has lost the Chilcot enquiry along with some CDs of confidential data. Lessons have been learned and its time to draw a line in the sand and move on.
I think someone is pulling your plonker my friend.
It is impossible for any USB stick or CD to be lost.
After the Darling debacle Dave Cameron got straight on the job and was talking about banning taking any such objects off the premises.
Things can of course still be mislaid but they will always remain to be found within the office building.
This is simple Conservative efficiency.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17582542
The things that appear on memory sticks at the most inconvenient moments…
LOL to quote …
For four years now Europe’s one-dimensional obsession with public debt meant it took its eyes off the seismic tremors in banking and quite failed to grasp the underlying structural problem: how to achieve growth within the current euro
Is that 0% growth you are talking about?
Drivel from a man who destroyed our pensions, sold the nations gold, wrecked the currency, impoversihed the poor and stole from British taxpayers who are not yet born?
The man would be a laughing stock if he had not destroyed the lives of so many people.
He should at least face Inquiry for gross incompetence in public office – maybe then the public would have some faith that they are not above the law.
Is that the same gordon brown that said he’d cured boom and bust?
british jobs for british workers. oops not now we are in the EU
French jobs for British Workers perhaps.
I want one of those. In Brussels.
Piece-work not enough for you Tone?
No more of that boom and bust now.
No, I think it is another Gordon Brown.
Interesting Article Gordon, so you don’t agree with Barroso then. The Euro’s problems having nothing to do with America and all to do with Barroso himself.
“For four years now Europe’s one-dimensional obsession with public debt meant it took its eyes off the seismic tremors in banking and quite failed to grasp the underlying structural problem: how to achieve growth within the current euro. In the four years since American and British banks recapitalized, added capital (around 4 percent more) and wrote off bad debts (an equivalent 4 percent write-off), Europe has vacillated. Its euro-area bank recap added only half a percent of new bank equity – and an even smaller write-off of toxic debts. Now, we must look for a bank recapitalization of anything between 200 billion and 500 billion euros.”
Oh and as for ‘last chance’ gordon has his two years ago . We’ll not be giving him another.
But isn’t that a picture of Sarah and Gordon Brown?
A lovely pair.
I have saved the World.
I blame the bloody bankers. Watched over by sleeping useless politicians.
But I can save the world even better with Eurobonds.
I have some gold chocolate coins left over from Christmas.
Can they be of any use?
I’ve got old monopoly money left over from the game which is mostly now lost. I suspect it’s worth more than these eu bonds thingies they keep talking about.
Gold ?! Sell !
If Leveson so worried about cost why doesn’t he just issue the report he had planned all along based on his prevconcieved prejudices – rather than pretending to listen to the expensive drivel from his “inquiry”?
Worth a reprise it’s quite catchy.
the northern rock, ireland and spanish problems could have been stopped before they started if politicians had put pressure on banks not to lend so much on houses and insisted on 30% deposits and not in the case of northern wreak given 120% mortgages. The politicians were only too happy for the public to get a temporary feel good factor to vote them back into office.
‘Things can only get better’ under Liebour. After all, Gordon abolished Boom and Bust in 1997.
Would that be Liebour you are referring to ? Why didn’t the tories twig it then?
A few of the tories did and even a few labour politicians but no wanted to listen to hearing bad news and warnings about the economy as thwe mangic money tap kept spewing money for all the pet projects.
A well know fund manager (called Dr Doom) at the time of the dot com boom said it would end in tears at the time he was derided but after he was sacked the markets tanked. Also warren buffett never invested in dot com shares as he did not understand them, so he kept to things he did understand (he seems to have done quite well) even lent goldman sacks a few billion.
http://gordonbrownmp.org/wp-content/gallery/test/web.jpg
Here’s a question worth asking. How many Greek nationals and their spouses have applied for National insurance numbers in the UK in the few last months?
You cannot fool me with your trick Questions.
The answer is ‘none’.
Greeks do not bother with National Insurance and taxes.
Not forgetting those that will be beginning to claim from the public purse here.
most of the smart greeks did it years ago and got second homes in monaco switzerland or the Uk.
knowing thier gov was pants they also moved their money off shore as well.
I would have done if i was greek
I think in the interests of the vast majority of EU citizens free movement of Greek citizens should have been suspended upon the first tranche of EU bailout money being handed over.
Perhaps the initial oversight can now be corrected?
I’m not Greek but I I have bought Sovereigns and American Silver Eagles in case my bank wishes to repossess my meagre savings.
Lord Justice leveson when asked to comment on the Emergency Hearing replied.
Mental Mental Chicken Oriental
The bbc reported that it was a deep and thoughtfull reply