The Sunday Times drops its paywall to share its readers delightful views on Gordon Brown:
The most frightening thing about all of this is that this man lead our country. Next we will see him fighting off imaginary attacks by aliens [...]I always feared that dark forces who want to gag the press, would seize this opportunity. Those who benifited, ordered, turned a blind eye, or were ultimately responsible for the excesses at the NOTW must be brought to justice to prove our system truly is by the people and for the people.But those who would use this to create a vacumn in which they can hide their dirt must be challenged. John Ford, Fleet
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:10 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of bummed that this Jonnie Marbles guy got in there with the cream pie first when poor old deathdr0ne had spent just fucking ages at home making his own.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
J Marbles is back tweeting.
I really hope there's no long term impact on letting the public in on committees - it's one of the joys of parliament - I can't remember the last time something like this happened actually inside the commons. 2004?
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
Whoda thunk The Sun would lead with this today?http://www.frontpagestoday.co.uk/frontpages/archive/The_Sun_20_7_2011.jpg
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:55 (twelve years ago) link
Not the most "humiliating" tho.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
ugh why isn't he being held and tortured in isolation? where is our oppressive police regime when we need it?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
NEWS CORP BOSS RUPERT MURDOCH, 80, :(, TELLS HACKING COMMITTEE MPs-
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
Would take a pie in the face from Jonnie Marbles every day rather than hear from cunts like Milo Yiannopoulos ever again.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
steve bell's shite
― conrad, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
Alternate pie content?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
More proof that the real news is far stranger than anything fiction can come up with (from last month)...
Tory MP Louise Bagshawe secretly marries Metallica manager Peter Mensch
Louise Bagshawe, the author and Conservative MP, has married Peter Mensch, the rock promoter, in a ceremony that she kept secret even from her children.By Tim Walker 6:30AM BST 03 Jun 2011In what could be the plot of one her bestselling "chick lit'' novels, Bagshawe married the American 19 years her senior during the parliamentary recess.The wedding in New York was kept secret even from her children. "I am very happy," she tells Mandrake. "It was a small, private ceremony in Manhattan and I'm back at work next Tuesday."Bagshawe captured Corby for the Tories last year, while Mensch, 58, manages rock bands including Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snow Patrol."It will have to be a long-distance relationship to start with," says the MP, who has homes in London and Northamptonshire, while her husband lives in New York. "Our work is important to both of us, but we will get together as often as we can. Peter does a lot of business in London."Bagshawe, whose books include Passion, Glitz and Career Girls, first met Mensch, a divorced father of teenaged children, in Oxford when she worked in the record business.
By Tim Walker 6:30AM BST 03 Jun 2011
In what could be the plot of one her bestselling "chick lit'' novels, Bagshawe married the American 19 years her senior during the parliamentary recess.The wedding in New York was kept secret even from her children. "I am very happy," she tells Mandrake. "It was a small, private ceremony in Manhattan and I'm back at work next Tuesday."
Bagshawe captured Corby for the Tories last year, while Mensch, 58, manages rock bands including Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snow Patrol."It will have to be a long-distance relationship to start with," says the MP, who has homes in London and Northamptonshire, while her husband lives in New York. "Our work is important to both of us, but we will get together as often as we can. Peter does a lot of business in London."
Bagshawe, whose books include Passion, Glitz and Career Girls, first met Mensch, a divorced father of teenaged children, in Oxford when she worked in the record business.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
Passion, Glitz and Career Girls
is this from a chick-lit title generator? jesus.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
That's three books, rather than one, right?
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
Well, they're all the same book really.
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
You've read them!?
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of Mensch, has her face off with Piers Morgan been posted yet?
http://gordonsrepublic.brandrepublic.com/2011/07/20/latest-on-the-news-international-hacking-scandal-liveblog-2/
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:34 (twelve years ago) link
Genuinely surprised she's not published by HarperCollins.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't watched, but, she's wrong, isn't she? at least in going as far as filling in the blanks in her account of morgan's book - like it does not say that afaic, however true it is.
also, good start dave!People want this because they want the government to be able to focus on the issues "that matter more".
should probably understand at some point that this is a v significant thing that matters to people
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
Cameron's Cuties - Part 1
Louise Mensch couldn't even win the Cameron's Cuties poll tsk tsk
― Wavey Grave-Shit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
but, she's wrong, isn't she? at least in going as far as filling in the blanks in her account of morgan's book - like it does not say that afaic, however true it is.
Guido's twttier feed yesterday heavily implied that they fed her the information…
― carson dial, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
now there's a news source you can trust
― Wavey Grave-Shit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
ed should read out a list of those who've mentioned warning, or been alleged to have warned, cameron about coulson, as a human being/as someone who presided over phone hacking/as someone whose hiring policies were kinda controversial, in the face of DC's innocent demeanour; ashdown, someone at buckingham palace, clegg, rusbridger & others from fleet street. it's wilful blindness all over again.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
11.56am: Cameron has finished.
Got excited there.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
wd be okay with some unfunny twat pie-ing Dave today if they want to have a go
― Wavey Grave-Shit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
lol. also i should be in government, Miliband runs through warnings about Coulson that Cameron has received or could have received, and media coverage such as the New York Times investigation into phone hacking.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
he already has p fluffy hair today
cameron landing better blows re: blair/brown's closeness to newscorp than e-mili did re: anything
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
gosborne looks distinctly green around the gills, clegg staring off into the distance
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
dc is sorta invoking the authority of brooks & yates in his speech more than i'd think he'd want to?i'm only reading about this so don't know how it's coming across.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Whatevs, Blair/Brown did not hire an editor the entire country associated with phone hacking.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe how many times he's been able to bat off 'concerns, what concerns?' with references to conspiracy theories, bigger problems etc. at the very least he has a malfunctioning government.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think there's anything "whatevs" about blair and brown's role in any of this.
BAM tom watson!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
MichaelLCrick At PM saying no new info in NYT article, Ben Bradshaw puts fists in air, gestures throat cut, and mouths "finished" 2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
i think Blair's silence over the last couple of weeks has been instructive. "the other boys did it too" is never gonna wash as an excuse while you're the guy at the wheel tho
― Wavey Grave-Shit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
oh absolutely, everyone is as complicit
#allinittogether
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
"the other boys did it too" is never gonna wash as an excuse while you're the guy at the wheel tho
otfm. also suzy otfm about the difference between sucking up to the murdochs and actually letting them plant a criminal on your staff.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
... is the point, yes.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
i think nick raynsford just said the civil service was bugged??
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, every tory troll everywhere is repeating the party line - "But Blair did it first!" - but Cameron hasn't (as far as I know) even apologised for employing Coulson yet? In fact I'm pretty sure he went with, "I make no apology..."
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
My idealist heart wants this to show the everyman Sun etc reading person the shit these guys pull, and have people THINK about what theyre spewed at by media with an agenda. I really, really have hope this is the only chance for change there. I'm hoping against hope tho arent I?
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp Also I don't remember any of them complaining about Blair and Brown's closeness to NI back in the day, even after the royal phone hacking. In fact iirc it was pretty much only lefties who have consistently attacked all government's closeness to Murdoch. And possibly P Hitchens.
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
mulcaire is off the payroll now. does that mean they've found another way to keep him on the payroll? or was offing the whistleblower warning enough?
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
No they didn't complain, because they wanted their friend back.
Now their friend has been seen eating bogeys, they are all "you liked them, you were their bestest friend" and "Mary told you he eats bogeys and you still invited him for tea" and so on.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
Ahh, I hadn't read the latest - "Of course I regret, and I am extremely sorry, about the furore it has caused." said Cameron over hiring Coulson. So it was the furore, not the hiring. I can't understand why, from a political pov, he doesn't just apologise. Then EdM couldn't keep asking him to do it. What harm would it do?
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
god i hate that new way of 'apologizing': i'm sorry *if i upset anyone'; i'm sorry *for the furore [ie your reaction]* etc.
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
That is not a new way of apologizing. Now, how many questioners have asked Cameron the name of the outside company which vetted Coulson?
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm sorry, but I'm not going to apologise."
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
surely answering a question with an "ugh" then sitting back down isn't permissible!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
1357: Echoing the words of his predecessor Margaret Thatcher, at one point in the debate David Cameron says: "I'm enjoying this".
I remember when she said it (as in the exact moment), I thought to myself "she's over! She's completely done!"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Miliband got in a top zing: said Tom Baldwin was vetted properly and oh BTW what about his former line manager, Michael Gove.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link