The Prime Minister seems to have decided he’s not going to be the first leader since 1695 to use the state to legislate the press. He just told the commons he has “serious concerns and misgivings” about using the state to underpin Leveson’s proposals. Apparently he is “not convinced” it is needed and wants to give the press the chance to implement principles of Leveson without it. It’s on…
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?
Is this another ironcast guarantee?
It was actually a good speech by Dave.
Red Ed is now using the Dowler’s as a political tool to bring about the state controlling the press.
The Dowlers and the McCanns have been used shamelessly by those seeking to control the press.
To be fair, they seem to have entered in to the discussion with gusto ! I dont know if they saw moe £ signs or what.
‘I dont know if they saw moe £ signs or what.’
Any Max Clifford involvement?
Oh well, at least we were not disappointed by Ed. Opportunistic as usual.
Did he demand an enquiry into yhe enquiry?
It seems everyone has used the Dowlers. First it was the press then a lawyer to make a few quid out of a compo claim and now Ed.
Miliband wants to gag balls (Geddit?)
How? None of you came to their defence when all these were going on.
Its like wolf crying for sheep.
RUBBISH! The problem we have got is people have broken the law and they have not been strung up. That is the problem – inner-Lahndahn corruption of the establishment it is.
Steal a bottle of water from a store during a riot and you get six months, while establishment’s criminal harrassment of innocent individuals gets nowt.
The Dowlers faced far worse treatment in a court of law under cross examination.
Why were there no reporting restrictions in place?
That said, to listen to the phone messages was criminal and should have been treated as such by the police and courts.
Red ED who’s family have lived in this country for a dogs watch, is a totalitarian,It’s in his DNA.
I agree it was criminal and should have been dealt with as such.But instead the incident was exploited shamelessly by Milliband.As you say the Dowlers faced cross examination that would have distressed me more than the phone episode, had i been in their shoes.
Maybe it was a sort of displacement as they felt guilty. with Milliband of course, it was pure opportunism.
I can understand Cameron’s concern.
LOL
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it was and as it continues remains a very balanced and realistic appraisal of the recommendations…. the realities of the actual statute detail are or could be a problem…the data protection issues also must be considered.
Whitewash r us must be in town or is it u-turns are us maybe he has spine problems.
Do they mean me?
How can you take seriously anybody with so little self-respect as to dress up like that?
x100
Does his brain fill the daft hat?
Oi, those are the CP lodge garments, I’d have you know; show some respect.
Am I allowed to call him a fucking wanker – or is that contempt of court?
Inquiry neede NOW.
just says you’re a c’unt …and sallys just a crass Hunt
I said crass c’unt
The bitch is back???????
We need a judge-led inquiry to find out if headgear like that are allowed (academic or not)
Those on the left want to control the press, everyone else wants a free press.
Control of the press is just a means to an end. We want to control your lives, your minds, your behaviour…
Control of the press would be the foundation stone of control of the internet and all it’s manifestations, the blogsphere, facebook, twitter, Huffington Post etc etc. No wonder the Left want it.
thats a very debateable contention … no-one is going to pass legislation that restricts our freedom of speech or the fundamental freedom of the press. It should be possible to expect that the press must be made accountable where they are guilty of criminal activities.
There are already laws in place to deal with such eventualities. They just haven’t been used fully.
Let’s not forget that phone-hacking happened when LABOUR were in power.
Quite. Funny, isn’t it, how the Left never mention that little fact en passant.
absolutely…today BBC was running ‘memorable moments from the enquiry’….it was sienna miller and rebeccah brooks… ‘like being chased down the road by 10 men’ and lol comments respectively … and robinson just before the debate in the HOC putting across that cameron was compromised to both sides of the issue…just creating a quite biased
piece of ‘news’.
There is nothing wrong with state control of the press. It relieves politcians of the need to waste their time speaking to low-life like journalists.
The likes of Sienna Miller and Ann Diamond really make me laugh ! if they could only hear themselves, and if they only knew what people think of them ! poor innocent (not) lambs .
Miliband wants state reg, he can fuck of as well.
Off dear, fuck off!
You can be our new spokesman.
How many times have the press said they’ll regulate themselves and then failed to implement their promises?
If Dave does control them, they’ll have only themselves to blame.
What do you mean by they? The press is the voice of the people. Do you think if the state controled the press it would allow the press to report their expense scandals, sexual misconduct or anything else that the state does not want exposing.
We had two world wars winning a hard fought freedom, it is folly to thhrow it away because a missing girl’s voicemales were routinely deleted by her phone provider.
I mean the press.
Read what I actually said, halfwit.
Dave says as long as they give a cast iron guarantee they should be given another chance just like Cyril er……………
How many times have politicians said they won’t lie and cheat the public and then gone on to do precisely that?
Your point being?
I am just asking. What do we reckon? One hundred thousand times in the last 50 years? Two hundred thousand?
Ignore the capitalist lackey Cameroon! My boy Ed will defeat the running dogs of the lickspittle press! Long live the revolution!
Common Purpose it’s like a disease, where’s a Stalin esq purge when you need it.
I never thought in the 21st Century we’d ever be entertaining the thought of the state regulating the press, with washed out “celebs” championing the cause and then to hear another CP graduate being proposed to aide the regulation it’s madness.
First the commies take over the “Environmental” agenda, then the UN, then the judicary etc etc it’s like a whirlwind of statism under the fake guise of democracy and we know best.
When will the MsM start looking into CP and it’s disciples and stand up to this forboding tyranny.
Anyhow I’m off for a coffee.
Don’t rant at the barista – she’s probably Latvian, won’t understand it and then will try for sexual harassment compensation.
Barista? The correct term is ‘cheap labour’.
Cattle prod for Tapsell
Gerld Kaufman = death warmed up
Is there some sign that he is warm. Last time I saw him he made Ho Chi Min look lively.
Was he wearing his comedy safari suit?
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Where’s Gordon?
Where’s Rolf?
Can you tell what it is yet?
Too many decrepit time servers on both sides of Commons – BIG clear out needed – Straw, Rifraff, Tapsell, Kaufman, Dobson – boot the lot out.
Should be a max 2 x 5 year terms for MPs.
How about a maximum of 2 minutes – that ought to limit the damage.
And the amount of expenses
Typical Dave. Siding with minorities again. This time it’s the minority who favour a free press and oppose state control, both direct and indirect.
Regulate. Control. We know best. Totalitarianism. Freedom is slavery. Marxism. The State is all. You will Love Big brother.
How can Shami Chakrabati remain a director of Liberty when she wants to control the press?
Woo hoo! Is there anything else that she likes to control. What a cutie!
I know, it’s beyond comedy isn’t it
We are recruiting.
Rubicon = word of the day.
Totally dominates the word cloud.
I do not think that Ruby Wax is a con.
I don’t even like guava juice
Register of Y-front interest.
hes such a tosser…slimey bastard loves the camera …and the net !
That Denise Coffey’s looking rough these days.
Lib + lab + regulating tories = Regulation of press .Idiocy
So the answer to massive failed self-regulation is
*drumroll*
very powerful self-regulation (ie. the status quo)
Legal underpinning is required to enure the press barons and their scum underlings can be
1. fined for wrongdoing
2. exposed as the hypocrites they are by
HUGE FRONT PAGE APOLOGIES
Roll On…………
Hmmm….Crossing the Rubicon, what a load of high faluting Bollocks. Have they even studied Roman History?
Cameron ducks issue, despite most of the population in favour of this? Is this true democracy? Makes you wonder what dirty the Media barons have on him, it’s pretty obvious they’ve got him and a number of other MP’s by the balls.
Free speech? This is bollocks as well – We don’t have it, we have “Paternalist justification of limiting speech” if you think we have free speech walking into a local town centre and start shouting “All *Insert ethnic Group* are parasites and we should rise up and *Insert action* them”. You would be arrested pretty quickly, and charged with Inciting racial hatred, or breeching the peace.
People who talk about free speech are deluded, we are all accountable for what we say. I believe the British Legal system is very good, the current system we have is good, we shouldn’t worry or fear because of fear mongers and people who believe in so called “Principles” when in reality legislation is a pragmatic approach.
Do you really want the state controlling what the press is allowed to say about the state?
Do you really want the state controlling what the press can print about MPs expenses?
The dowlers by the way are just mere pawns in this game, this is about the most powerful in the land.
Cameron’s instinctive reluctance to legislate is well founded at this juncture …the press have the opportunity to set out in clear terms what they intend to do to implement the recommendations.
The test that those new proposals are fit for purpose does not necessarily require legislation that could be used by future administrations to seriously affect press / media freedoms.
Putting statute in place that allows effective government control of the media is abhorant to everyone ….and David Cameron recognises that.
Good point, Green Ink. Can you just imagine what Labour would do it if was handed the power to control the press after 2015. We would never have heard of the grooming gangs, we would never have heard of the expenses scandal and Jimmy Savile would still be on re runs on BBC3.
It is not new laws that are required it is for the existing ones to be enforced.
‘most of the population’
Is the same ‘most’ the left go on about when they talk about how fucking popular their world view is, while frantically ignoring the tragically low circulation of the Guardian?
Is this the same ‘most’ who think ‘the science is settled’ regarding climate change?
‘Most’ people do not agree with the cultural Marxism being forced on us by a metropolitan, liberal elite infused media. ‘Most’ people know that if they disagree with said elite in ‘polite company’ they will be browbeaten as racist/xenophobic/homophobic/little Englanders/all the above.
So they keep quiet, allowing said media elite to dominate the ‘agreeable’ – as defined by them of course – public discourse.
If you think that process constitutes actual ‘agreement’, think again. Millions upon millions of people buy Murdoch papers and pay for Sky subscriptions. That is people exercising their free choice, a democratic ‘vote’ for the fact that they do not see Murdoch as some sort of devil incarnate. Far from it, he is someone who understands their needs and interests, and gets paid if and only if he fulfils them.
At no point in that process is there compulsion, such as in the aggressive legalese letter I got from TV licensing this morning, threatening court action against me despite the fact they do not even know my bloody name.
This whole affair is nothing more than a thrashing tentacle of the statist authoritarian left, trying to smash the country’s rigging. They do-not-give-a-damn about peoples rights or freedoms, only the extent that they can regulate and control peoples lives.
The little people need saving from themselves, you see. Otherwise they might just spend their time admiring lovely pairs of tits on page 3 instead of marching towards Hogsbawm’s golden dawn.
well that’s torn it
Ayup…Rob Wilson – Royal Mail’s largest client.
Vaz & Kaufman within 2 mins of each other – torrent of slime dribbling down the opposition benches.
Bunter Twatson, Bunter Twatson, whither art thou?
Pies ‘av come.
Unless my eyes are deceiving me the fat git isn’t even in the House. Utter cretin. At least Panty Bryant turned up to get his false accusations rammed up his arse.
Twatson called out by Andy Brigden. Good man.
talking of fat b’astards hilarious that prezza tweeted he was delighted levesen had accepted his recommendations…f’ucking priceless
Who the feck was Bill Shankly?
Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. Can I cum on your tits?
What the feck is Goodison for?
Fucking him won’t further your career, so do you care?
Has WW 3 started ?
I have “serious concerns and misgivings ‘ about what Cameron is trying to do with this report .
Is that why Mr Moribund was shaking his head ?
its birdshit boy’s twitch to avoid another dollop…unfortunately his lips swish from side to side as his sneer flashs
Is The Last Chance Saloon a gay bar?
Corbyn alert! Fire up bullshit filters.
Beard ratio approaching dangerous levels, Captain!
Jeremy Hunt looks like a ten year old boy who has got straight As on his school report.
Or a ten year old boy who has just discovered the joys of masturbation
Nice one Guido and Co, (moderated again) I see that you have already voluntarily signed up to Ofcoms see no evil , say no evil and speak no evil.
Ofcom Ofgem Ofgas whatever the off, it is always a chocolate fireguard.
Has anyone got my Yuletide log?
The fairy on the top of the xmas tree is hiding something.
…all being diverted to Gordon’s
If this report by Leveson of the Justice Department cost five million five hundred thousands of pounds and consists of two thousand pieces of paper then each piece of paper costs a lot of money .
a good deal more than your brain cell count
Does this mean that the Speccie won’t have to decamp to foreign climes and its editor won’t be thown to the lions?
Quote for it. Get paid upfront bodge it and runne
Underpinners to. Royalty since the eleventy twelfth of never say :
We underpin anything. Including the nations moral fibre
Quotes willingly supplied . Ring only on april first.
I agree with Ed.
send him your jimmy joes jimmy
6oclock news bbc….its cameron against legislation clegg and milliband for it…simplistic totally unrepresentative biased ill balanced headline
5pm gmt of course
It’s no surprise that Labour want state control of the press, they would probably secretly like it all nationalised but for a political party called “Liberal” to want to have state control of the press is a big surprise or perhaps not with that particular party.
Yup MB, the Lib Damned party seems to be transmogrifying into slime before our very eyes. That’s the problem with the national political stage, you can’t be all things to all people.
Just asking, but is there any news from Rotherham? If so, it’s got a bit ‘buried’.