NOW Scandal

[HelenD]

She'll float...

[Doorstop]

*trufax*

I noticed, with some mirth, she described herself and her man being charged as a "Sideshow".

The comedy just writes itself.

[pingu]

[Dot]

I wonder what Ross Kemp makes of it all?

[InkMan]

Off work with a sore back just now; was feeling a trifle sorry for oneself. Should be cheered up with Tom Watson's appearance at Leveson today.

Shuggy

[The Egg Man]

Via Twitter : http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/ ... lists.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Worrying that such a blatant attempt at intimidation would be made, even during the NOTW shitstorm

Check out this article.

A classic attempt at 'Have your cake and eat it'.

What does it say about me that I like Louise Mensch more now that I know she wrote a bonkbuster and took drugs when she was younger? That said, I still like her less than I like picking up warm dog shit with a holey dog poo bag.

Mensch 'confessed' on Question Time that, in her past, she "did serious drugs and it messed with my head."

It's hardly a revelation. Anyone who's heard her speak knows her brain is fucked.

[Doorstop]

Comment of the week!

[HelenD]

Having recently blundered into La Mensch on Twitter I can confirm that she is Up There, not Down Here.

[Josef]

Twitter is very possibly the most appropriately-named application ever.

[sandabound]

Says it all.

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[Mori]

BBC

Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges.

Eight people, including Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

[The Egg Man]

The 19 charges mentioned understates the issue. I listened to Alison Levitt QC read the names and the charges and some were facing up to 11 charges against named individuals each.

[Dot]

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to face charges over corrupt payments to public officials.

[The Egg Man]

Off work with a sore back just now; was feeling a trifle sorry for oneself. Should be cheered up with Tom Watson's appearance at Leveson today.

Shuggy

Email from Tom Watson.

Dear Egg Man,

A new non-aligned grass roots campaign needs your help. Hacked Off, the campaign for a free and accountable press has been set up to ensure the Leveson inquiry proposals are implemented.

Please can you help them immediately by urgently signing their petition calling on David Cameron not to backtrack on his promise to the victims of press abuse

Then can you forward the petition to your family and friends. We want as many people as possible signed up to the Hacked Off campaign.

The victims feel that David Cameron has broken his promises to them. And they are angry.

As JK Rowling said yesterday:

"I thought long and hard about the possible consequences to my family of giving evidence and finally decided to do so because I have made every possible attempt to protect my children’s privacy under the present system, and failed. If I, who can afford the very best lawyers, cannot guarantee the privacy of those dearest to me, what hope did the Dowlers, the McCanns and the Watsons ever have of protecting their own children and their own good names?"

Our goal - Labour's goal - is to ensure David Cameron will not get his Leveson betrayal through Parliament.

Work has already started assembling a coalition to wage a cross party campaign in the House of Commons and everywhere.

We will bring to bear every resource, call in every promise, rattle every skeleton in every cupboard. This is a step too far by Cameron. The whole country knows he doesn't have the moral legitimacy to do it. We're going to do everything we can to make sure we implement the core recommendations of the Leveson report.

Cameron wants to sell-out to Rupert Murdoch and powerful press interests because he is scared, and he is weak. But that is why he cannot succeed - because he is weak. And he is wrong.

Please sign the petition and forward this email to your friends and family

Best wishes

Tom

P.S. If you use social media, please also tweet the link or publish it on your facebook page. It would be great if you could let me know you have done this - I'm on twitter at @tom_watson

The petition is at http://hackinginquiry.org/petition

[HollowHorn]

Dear Egg Man,

Excellenty.