Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[DaveCinzano]

It's like superannuated wrestling, with Leveson as a Commissioner leaping into the ring to tag in from Jay onto über-heel Rupe. Somebody hand his a folding chair!

 

[Lord Camomile]

Damnit, just got back to hear people laughing! What was the funny?!

 

[gabi]

Leveson made a funny about Murdoch causing his legal team to have heart attacks when he said 'im under strict instructions not to say this, but..'

 

[Lord Camomile]

And...? What did he say?!

 

[gabi]

Just tried to lay into Paul Dacre, but was pulled back on track

 

[Lord Camomile]

Cheers

 

[London_Calling]

What rubbish acting, Rupes. I've never heard someone so obv. spounting bollocks "I should have thrown the lawyers out and spoken to Goodwin one-on-one". You utter cock. It's embarrassing to see an old man like this.

 

[gabi]

The bit where he was complaining about the paparazzi outside his house when he was with Rebekah was priceless.

 

[Balbi]

Murdoch laying into all the execs etc now - Jay's strategy has worked well. Not incriminating though, until someone else contradicts it and presents evidence.

 

[London_Calling]

Jay's spectrum (ethical > civil > criminal) indicates the start of pulling the various corp gov strands together: Act Three begins...

 

[sleaterkinney]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...l-parliament-the-truth-yesterday-7681804.html

Top civil servant was asked 10 times if the culture secretary's statement to Commons was the truth, 10 times he refused to answer...

 

[Lord Camomile]

But did he threaten to overrule him?

(I know, I know...)

 

[agricola]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...l-parliament-the-truth-yesterday-7681804.html

Top civil servant was asked 10 times if the culture secretary's statement to Commons was the truth, 10 times he refused to answer...

Hodge should have asked him whose idea it was to pick Smith as the conduit between NI and the DCMS, what he (Smith) was told to do, and by whom.

 

[London_Calling]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...l-parliament-the-truth-yesterday-7681804.html

Top civil servant was asked 10 times if the culture secretary's statement to Commons was the truth, 10 times he refused to answer...

He didn't refuse at all. He explained his /the departments position repeatedly in various ways. It's hardly his fault if Margaret Fucking Hodge wants to jump on the bandwagon and gain herself (even more) attention:

I am very sorry. These are very important matters. They are rightly the subject of interest of Parliament. That’s why the Secretary of State made a full statement yesterday and answers questions. I have come ready to speak about the Olympics. I have made clear the position set out in various statements yesterday and I think I need to stand on that without any implications being drawn whatsoever. I was not given any notice of these questions.

Yeah, fuck off Hodge.

 

[ymu]

Incisive and convincing as usual. The bone-idle comedy cynic strikes again.

 

[sleaterkinney]

He didn't refuse at all. He explained his /the departments position repeatedly in various ways. It's hardly his fault if Margaret Fucking Hodge wants to jump on the bandwagon and gain herself (even more) attention:


Yeah, fuck off Hodge.

It's not jumping on the bandwagon, he was asked to back up what the minister had said to Parliament and didn't. Are these things not important?. should he just have been asked about the Olympics?

 

[London_Calling]

Of course. That's what he was asked to do, that's what he prepared for.

That's the Public Accounts Committee. Fuck all to do with Leveson.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Of course. That's his job, thats what he was asked to do, that's what he prepared for.

His job is the senior civil servant at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport so this very much does fall under his remit, why shouldn't he be questioned?

 

[London_Calling]

Oh go away. Fucking Independent is a nonsense again.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Incisive and convincing as usual. The bone-idle comedy cynic strikes again.

indeed

 

[ymu]

Remarkable.

 

[London_Calling]

Right. Margaret Hodge.

 

[Wilf]

He didn't refuse at all. He explained his /the departments position repeatedly in various ways. It's hardly his fault if Margaret Fucking Hodge wants to jump on the bandwagon and gain herself (even more) attention:

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Evidence that words came out of his mouth isn't evidence that he answered the question. Or, to put it another way... if he did answer the question whether he approved the SPAD talking to Murdoch, what was the answer?

 

[two sheds]

He didn't refuse at all.

Errm the second quote you gave in that post explains *why* he refused. Whether he was right to refuse or not, he refused.

 

[London_Calling]

Of course he didn't answer what the self-serving, opportunist Hodge wanted him to. His answer was 'fuck the fuck off' ten different ways, which in the circs was correct.

 

[Wilf]

Of course he didn't answer what the self-serving, opportunist Hodge wanted him to. His answer was 'fuck the fuck off', which in the circs is the correct answer.

Yes, we get it - Margaret Hodge is a waste of space - but using that irrelevance to support your assertion that the civil sevant 'answered the question' rather than 'refused to answer the question' is weopons grade bollocks.

 

[London_Calling]

I didn't know there was a 'we'. Who else is in your 'we'?

She's not a waste of space

 

[Wilf]

I didn't know there was a 'we'. Who else is in your 'we'?

She's not a waste of space

You must be really bored if you want to play that sort of game.

 

[London_Calling]

Relatively speaking, she's done okay work, perhaps esp. in relation to Defence industry procurement and contracts.

The clue with regard Leveson and associated matters, however, is in the title of the Committee of which she is Chair.

 

[shagnasty]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...l-parliament-the-truth-yesterday-7681804.html

Top civil servant was asked 10 times if the culture secretary's statement to Commons was the truth, 10 times he refused to answer...

The graun gives a different slant on this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/26/jeremy-hunt-civil-servant-bskyb