Hackergate: The questions Cameron must answer

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And of course Labour is squeaky clean in its relationships with press inc Murdoch. They are all as bad as each other – admit it!

Gosh they cannot admit that, but I think Cameron has done OK with his speech today, he states one of the primer ideologies which Newer labour should remember, your only guilty when your proved, in this country your innocent until proved your not.

With Ed Miliband employing the other Murdoch stalwart, Tom Baldwin, perhaps he ought to stop personalising this affair and prepare for the day it comes back to bite him. Which it will.

All the newspapers are bad but without a free press we wouldn’t have the MP’s expenses being exposed, resulting in the theft of £thousands of taxpayers money, or the Iraq dossier Labour lied in that resulted in thousands of people being killed overseas.

We need a free press.

The individuals involved in this phone “hacking” should be arrested, charged and banged up ASAP but to allow this to be an excuse to clamp down on press freedoms by idiot politicians from any party in not a good idea…

Those that live by the sword die by the sword.Ed Miliband recruited Tom Baldwin,whose behaviour at NI with regard to Michael Ashcroft would appear to be questionable.

William – Ed Miliband has already been questioned on R4 about Baldwin. I don’t care about this man’s drug taking but according to Ashcroft he also paid to have someones bank account to be “hacked” into.

I suspect Ed Miliband has a rocky ride ahead…

Opportunistic Miliband will look mighty foolish if he keeps trying to make a party political issue out of this. Just as with the expenses scandal, they’re all in this together.

By the way, if anyone fancies a laugh: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jul/08/gordon-brown-davidcameron

Although on balance it’s good that this lunatic is well away from mainstream politics, he did at least provide some inadvertent humour.

Selo, Anon, Ed & co – I think the cats out of the bag chaps – here we have one of the most controversial issues to engulf a PM in some time and you three can’t avert your eyes from Labour and Ed Milliband. If this article had been about Miliband appointing Coulson I wonder what line you’d be taking. No doubt highly critical of Cameron…..not. Quite what you’ve got against Ed M ….hang on…..don’t answer that.

[...] his morning press conference, journalist after journalist pressed him on the Coulson question, wanting to know What he asked him of his past; what Coulson told him; why he trusted him; why [...]

Dave,

Honestly, that’s well wide of the mark (at least in my case, as I can’t speak for anyone else).

Of course this reflects poorly on David Cameron. Everyone, except the most blinkered, would admit that. He appointed Andy Coulson and is inevitably tarred by that association. Like all politicians in recent times, he has been in bed, metaphorically, with Murdoch. Did I really need to state all that?

The reason I referred to Miliband in this thread is because of his unbelievable, hypocritical, juvenile line of attack over this issue. I am appalled. This is not a party political matter and he is trying to make out as if it is.

This is what I have against Miliband. If you admire petty politicians then of course you will be pleased with Miliband’s handling of this issue. I had actually, naively, expected better. And I stand by everything I said above: he will look mighty foolish if he keeps up the rhetoric. Already I’ve seen him skewered by Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 over his links to News International and his appointment of Tom Baldwin.

Mr Mouse, lets not forget that this is not the first time the press’s tactics have caused controversy; the superinjunction breaches (only a few of which were really in the public interest; Trafigura), and Cablegate (although admittedly Vince brought that one on himself by breaking collective ministerial responsibility to his public).

With press freedom must come press responsibility. And I’m pleased that Cameron’s saying what I’ve been thinking; we need a genuinely independent press regulator, as the PCC is not fit for purpose.

Fair enough Ed – but I think you could cut EM a little bit more slack. I know you won’t agree with me, but I think the Blair etc. New Labour project makes it genuinely difficult for Labour leaders to move in a progressive direction (i.e. reducing inequality, breaking up concentrations of elite power and wealth, putting British society before international money interests where they conflict and so on).

At least Ed raises issues like wealth inequality and alternative social models like Scandinavian rather than the usual tunnel vision of the Anglo- American approach (comments that are mostly cut out by a winner takes all/ privatisation / inevitable globalisation pushing media).

I know he’s a professional politician but I reckon his heart’s roughly in the right place – unlike some others I could mention.

I am not surprised Ed’s talking Balls & Anon E Ratface are churning out the usual dross.

Only these simpleton’s would swallow Lord Ashcroft guff.

I have noticed Kelvin Mackenzie hasn’t got around to retracting the ” Lone Gunmen ” argument he put forward on the 6th of Sept 2010, when having a pop at Chris Bryant on the BBC.