Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
From Toby Helm:
More nails in the coffin of Osborne's ambitions to lead the Tories next...
Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"
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elbows
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From Toby Helm:
More nails in the coffin of Osborne's ambitions to lead the Tories next...
Yes, that was always going to be a challenge but now it seems implausible. Think it may have been a wikileak that pointed out that Osbornes voice is a barrier to achieving that office.
As for the coffin, I think Michael Howard is still using it at the moment.
Heaven forfend! There is no such person. Anyone who tells me, wonderful as I am, any different will get a bunch of fives...
<rants for a further five minutes>
<muffled sounds from inside gimp suit>
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Damn. My career as a political analyst remains tantalisingly out of reach
It's not implausible, but he's a weaker candidate than he was, as this Torygraph piece that went up last night summarises rather well. Being a bit overtaken by events, though...
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
That piece reads as if they got one of Cameron's SPADs drunk and listened to him or her ramble on. I mean Phillip Hammond is seen as someone with “not sufficient bandwidth”? FFS.
It is a bizarre phrase, isn't it? Probably correct about Hammond being too dull for the top job, though...
Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
From the Daily Heil for all those who missed it as I had. Cue comedy piano tinkling and bassoon trumping aaaaand read:
HE 'HID BEHIND A TREE' TO DODGE MEDIA AT MURDOCH DRINKS PARTY
Mr Hunt reportedly hid behind a tree to avoid being spotted by journalists at a party attended by News Corp's James Murdoch.
He had seenreporters at an evening event in May 2010 and decided to make himself scarce, the inquiry into press ethics heard.
He said that he thought 'this is not the time to have an impromptu interview and so I moved into a different quadrangle'.
Former Wall Street Journal journalist Iain Martin has described how he saw Mr Hunt hide.
Mr Martin said: 'He was heading in my direction, towards the Murdoch drinks party.
'I don't know whether he saw me, or if something else diverted him, but he suddenly changed direction and darted to the side of the square and over towards a large tree.'
Mr Hunt said today: 'There may or may not have been trees.'
The light-hearted exchange came at the start of a gruelling day of questioning for Mr Hunt, who is fighting to save his ministerial career after the close links between him and the Murdochs were revealed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152558/Jeremy-Hunt-sent-great-congrats-text-James-Murdoch-hours-charge-BSkyB-bid.html#ixzz1wRwLa9hE
HE 'HID BEHIND A TREE' TO DODGE MEDIA AT MURDOCH DRINKS PARTY
Mr Hunt reportedly hid behind a tree to avoid being spotted by journalists at a party attended by News Corp's James Murdoch.
He had seenreporters at an evening event in May 2010 and decided to make himself scarce, the inquiry into press ethics heard.
He said that he thought 'this is not the time to have an impromptu interview and so I moved into a different quadrangle'.
Former Wall Street Journal journalist Iain Martin has described how he saw Mr Hunt hide.
Mr Martin said: 'He was heading in my direction, towards the Murdoch drinks party.
'I don't know whether he saw me, or if something else diverted him, but he suddenly changed direction and darted to the side of the square and over towards a large tree.'
Mr Hunt said today: 'There may or may not have been trees.'
The light-hearted exchange came at the start of a gruelling day of questioning for Mr Hunt, who is fighting to save his ministerial career after the close links between him and the Murdochs were revealed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152558/Jeremy-Hunt-sent-great-congrats-text-James-Murdoch-hours-charge-BSkyB-bid.html#ixzz1wRwLa9hE
elbows
Well-Known Member
Undead story is revenant.
The night I saw Jeremy Hunt hide behind a tree before dinner with James Murdoch April 25th, 2012
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
She must be the preferred choice to speak today - shes now on BBC News saying that the evidence thus far showed that Hunt clearly put up strong divisions between what he privately felt and what he did, blahblahblah.
She's being sacrificed by Central Office to be tainted by association? Oh good!
Actually, they were interviewing civil servants off the record. That would be a very relevant assessment from an official: translation - "He can't or won't take in information at the rate we supply it".
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
No, no, no!
He hid behind a tree in a quasi judicial capacity!
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
No, no, no!
Quasi-deciduous then?
elbows
Well-Known Member
Not been so much fun in recent hours but still some stuff emerging that doesn't help number 10 
The Guardian's deputy editor, Ian Katz, has just tweeted:
The Guardian's deputy editor, Ian Katz, has just tweeted:
Cam has consistently said he hd nothing to do with BSkyBhandling but Hunt concedes No 10 began communicating with DCMS after Dowler story
— ian katz (@iankatz1000) May 31, 2012
— ian katz (@iankatz1000) May 31, 2012
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
...and that goes for the claim that Coulson was in no way involved as well.Not been so much fun in recent hours but still some stuff emerging that doesn't help number 10
The Guardian's deputy editor, Ian Katz, has just tweeted:
Cam has consistently said he hd nothing to do with BSkyBhandling but Hunt concedes No 10 began communicating with DCMS after Dowler story— ian katz (@iankatz1000) May 31, 2012
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
He probably is the "the most decent, straight and honest person" that he knows...
There's the Mail's headline sorted for the day when Hunt is eventually given the heave-ho
sleaterkinney
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She seems to be "on message" to an almost psychotic degree. She thinks if you shout it loud and strongly enough people will believe it, regardless of whether it's true or not.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Wasn't Coulson gone by then?
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