Les Tricoteuses - Part Deux

[BornSicky]

new thread to discuss phonehacking scandal.

Sheep are crazed lunatics . They run wild here and are indeed capable of savaging obe to death.

Yes but is that also true of a dead sheep?
I expect Murdoch will welcome the savaging by dead sheep on these committees

Seriously, I wish we could get rid of party politics. I like a few individuals of all sides.....eg. Tom Watson, Boris ,

• will continue thinking about this whilst hoovering.......

Zombie-dead sheep are the worst!

claig, what are you on about?

Agree bk_

Yes, the Labour frontbench are the worst

'Seriously, I wish we could get rid of party politics'

You can't get rid of party politics, it's what politics is all about. It's about different visions of the future, different values, goals and understanding. Unless you prefer the "we're all in it together" world of ex-Labourites like Lord Hutton and Frank Field working with the Tories.

Agree that Blackwood was outstanding.

Erm, claig, the fantastic Daily Mail is in it. Up to its neck, according to the 2006 ICO report.

at Jon Stewart clip...

Yes, I keep hearing that the Daily Mail is in it too. Let's wait and see.

Marina Hyde v funny today in today's Guardian. Mrs M as Jackie O.

claig you are exhausting. Seriously, this 'thing' isn't about party politics. Much like the expenses scandal, it crosses party lines. Every one is implicated (well maybe not the Greens but there aren't enough of them to be affected).

Let go of you obsession. You'll feel better for it. I promise

news breaking in the guardian about High Court judge ordering Met to release info on hacking of Jemima Khan and Hugh Grant

How is it different from Wickileaks?

Harbottle and Lewis may speak about the emails. Interesting.

claig i agree Blackwood did a great job yesterday but the terminology "conservative christian" always makes me shiver a bit (as I do when faced with people who take the "hard line" in other religions). What do we know about Blackwood in terms of broadly liberal policies like birth control, divorce laws, women's rights, abortion rights, gay rights etc? Just like EM hasn't become a great labour leader just because of what he has said during the past week or so, neither will Blackwood become a contender for a top job on the Tory front benches until people know what sort of person she actually IS.

TheRealMBJ, I have no obsession with it. I joke about it, because I think they "are all in it together". You have to laugh or else you'd cry. The curtain has been drawn back on what goes on, but that's probably only a fraction of what really goes on. The newspapers are spinners just like all the rest.

bkgirl when you see how effectively politicians CAN work together on the select committees I do wonder if a rainbow government - not just the coalition - might be the way forward. There are complete twunts in each party. If we could dump them and take the best of the bunch and get them to work together maybe we might have a real consensus to face the challenges of the 21t century....

teejwood, I agree. We don't know anything about Blackwood's opinions. It is teh first time I have ever seen her. But what was encouraging is that we saw that good MPs exist, ones that we never see or hear on TV. Fortunately, there are more good MPs than teh ones we see on our nightly news programmes. There is still hope that the public may be wrong when they say that "they're all the same". It didn't look like Blackwood is.

Proportional representation! Proportional representation! Proportional representation!

Repeat after me

Proportional representation!

Agree, we need PR. But of course that died a death. Plus ca change

re: PR. We lost that battle for the time being, I fear.

Ohhh - HoC coverage just starting

Clegg looks mighty pissed off - wonder what's going on there?

sorry don't know why i bolded clegg there