Les Tricoteuses - Part Deux

[BornSicky]

new thread to discuss phonehacking scandal.

notice that watson's nipped out for a wee before RB takes her place at the table!

If the payments were so large that they required the CEO of NC (that is JM's position isn't it?) to sign the cheques/authorise the bank transfers then he would have also seen the backing documentation and had a full explanation as to what they were. The agreement with their bankers will specify that payments over £x have to be authorised by the CEO, the fact that it is the CEO signature needed and how much x is would have been set by NC, not the bank as a means of preventing fraud. So clearly if these payments were big enough to require his signature then they were out of the ordinary compared to routine payments and he should have queried why. If he allowed 'minions' to hide things from him he should be sacked for incompetence.

Yes but sums like that are chicken-shit to them, londonone

As you have pointed out in other issues.

Don't be embarrassed Londonone. Spelling maybe isn't your strong suit. It doesn't always mean a lack of education.

Don't let it distract you from expressing slavish devotion for all things Murdochian.

tomwatson - a man who has never, as far as I can see, done any sort of a real job.

YY Nancy pointless, do some of these MPs even know why they are there?

Claire

Some of the questioning is very poor.
We've seen some good MPs and some Labour MPs.
Aprart from teh excellent Tom Watson.

When has any MP done a 'proper job' ?

I don't see how he can sign off a payment for 1m without looking.

I'm the assistant to a CEO of another VERY large company, and I'm telling you now that there is NO WAY that a payment of that amount would go under the radar. 10k, 50k, even 100k maybe. But not 1m.

Even in a corporation of that size, 1m is a huge amount of money! And if he says he signed it without even looking, he is either lying his face off or really really fecking stupid and shouldn't have been given the responsibility of the job.

Its getting a bit boring now. Want to see the flame haired temptress.

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(I can make more sense of it that way than wading through the actual Qs & As

Nancy66 - you are not alone (but don't tell anyone!)

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Yes mrsdb - that was the point I was making.

Frilly - I am not sure why you are attempting to make personal insults do feel free to stick to the point! If you want to get into an education pissing contest I suggest this probably isn't the thread but my spelling is fine thanks! My keyboard on the other hand is fucked!

Alan Keen. Now I know why I don't vote Labour.

Thank you, Ponders

Damn. Forgot to add and

Oddly I find myself agreeing with NormanTebbit on p.2 of this thread. The jacket and blouse don't go together. Looks like she's had to have a rummage through a charity shop in a hurry.

He's slapping the table again!

MrsDB, my old maths teacher was an MP, is that a proper job? Granted he isn;t one now, maybe thats why!!

This MP is absolutey dreadful though. Making me cringe.

The MPs are so weak, the HA Select Committee was much better.

"Editor in Chief of Guardian Newspapers Alan Rusbridger tweets: James M : I was 'surprised and shocked' we were paying Mulcaire's fees Doesn't read the Guardian then"

Snigger.

Sheridan was the worst. Ranting buffoon

Yes, teaching would be classed as a 'proper job' !

Did used to be a vocation, though.