Gordon Brown gets FLAMED

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continuum

smugpolice
I think Gordon Brown is a frickin' HERO.

To take over from the delusional mass murderer that is Tony Blair and then suffer the fallout is humbling.
 
vimothy

vimothy

yurp
Interesting, what is being totally ignored in this debate. There have been wholesale procurement failures by government (not to suggest that the Army is not guilty of this as well) that don't seem to receive any coverage in the press.
 
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josef k.

Dangerous Mystagogue
This is a continuing story of high-level corruption (remember the Eurofighter?) which is completely pervasive in the UK... ministers leaving office and immediately accepting high-paying consultancies in the very companies that they used to regularly hand no-bid contracts to. Private Eye documents this quite well... the long and short of it is, is that a Tory government will change absolutely nothing... They are all in on it. The swine.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
baboon2004 said:
The more of these stories that come out, the more it makes you fear for this country after the next election. Reduce the state to the absolute minimum, aim for profit even in delivering basic services. God only knows what they'll attempt to privatise.
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"You got access to military weaponry?"

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"We practically are the military."



I refuse to believe there is anything to say about capitalism that hasn't already been said in RoboCop.
 
allegiant

allegiant

Evenly Distributed
Interesting to see that The Sun has now determined to switch its allegiance from Labour to the Conservatives. Clearly this isn't simply an editorial decision, and has most likely come directly from News Corp. (Murdoch).

Even if many observers would happily disregard The Sun and its readership as irrelevant cretins, the decision will no doubt affect a change in Cameron's perceived electability amongst the 3 million that buy it each day.

The timing of the announcement is also pretty significant, given that it coincides with Brown's "last throw of the dice" speech yesterday, and Labour's overall attempts to rally themselves at their annual conference.

Looks like Murdoch's been planning this for quite a while. Big kick in the teef for Brown.

Reuters - Sun backs Tories for election
 
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scottdisco

rip this joint please
Murdoch - master of the universe - oiled up to Blair, in return for a bit of good press got the way smoothed for lots of business, he got more than his pound of flesh off the UK body politic, a seedy if predictable move from the filthy lies-about-dying-football supporters rag

didn't News International get a lot of loosening of restrictions on them in return for chumming up to New Labour?

i may have that wrong but a UK head like crackerjack will know, cheers
 
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scottdisco

rip this joint please
priceless from Sun associate editor Trevor Kavanagh on SKY News now, being asked by his fellow Murdoch employee Dermot Murnaghan, why the change of heart on party support.

Kavanagh waffling on a load of bollocks when - to be fair - he really should just say the truth - "Because Uncle Rupert took a decision, and Uncle Rupert told me so".
 
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crackerjack

Well-known member
News International's main sweeteners from the govt came in the form of the almost zero tax it paid, an arrangement that existed under the Tories and continued under Labour (think that's been tightened a little now). Apart from that, I think it mostly relates to Sky and the gradual easing of restrictions (keep a close eye on Sky News under the Tories). Plus Labour let the bastards get the test cricket, spineless cunts.

Kavanagh is such a gutless prick. He was fuming over the 97 switch, would've gone to the Mail if he'd had an ounce of honesty.

Anyway, all makes little difference. Tories are gonna win anyway and don't need the Sun. One of the worst things that ever happened to Nu Lab was the Sun's 97 endorsement, which allowed them to claim influence in an election that was already won.

Watching The Times drift right day by day over the last year has been painful.
 
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crackerjack

Well-known member
But it was not all socialising – there was some politics. Executives at News International have been particularly exercised by the threat to newspapers posed by the BBC's website. Speaking at the Edinburgh festival in August, James Murdoch, the son of News International's founder, described the BBC's reach as "chilling". He also complained about the media regulator, Ofcom. Keen to oblige, David Cameron has promised to abolish Ofcom and scale back the BBC.
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Here's the payback.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-cameron-cosied-up-to-murdoch--son-1795742.html
 
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