Labour get the inquiry they wanted

charles hercock

How can Coulson stay
As they say he has become the story

ollie

Come on. This entire episode is driven entirely by party opportunism - and NOTHING else. What an odious little creep Chris Bryant is.

He has a wonderful gift of dressing up deeply tribal cynicism into evangelical piety.

The Beeb must be salivating over this story.

Yam Yam

"Tom Watson quivered that Rupert Murdoch should be hauled before the Standards and Privileges committee."

The man is presumably impervious to irony.

strapworld

Well they have stopped Vaz leading this enquiry!!
Dromey and Watergate!! Shows what an intellect Harman is married to! Still we know who wears the pants in that partnership!

I cannot recall this prune speaking up against anyone in Number 10 and peerages when he was Treasurer of the Labour Party! What a man of straw he is!

Coulson could, though,grab the moral high ground and stand down whilst this issue is being 'investigated'.

The News of the World will be on Red Alert now for any Labour MP acting dishonourably!!
Interesting Times.

PS. Does this mean Fraser Nelson will be investigated?

Tankus

I'm just watching the FIRST debate in the house on UK forces in Afghanistan , there's about 10 labour MPs on the benches and only about 40 in the whole house , and yet Coulson and NOTW had a full house only minus Gordon bloody Brown it seemed...

This just shows that most of our MP's are an utter bunch of self serving f'ers, with very little care or consideration for our country.

UTTER DISGRACE

Dorothy Wilson

ollie: What odious little creeps the lot of them are- and hypocrites to boot. And you are right about the BBC. They devoted 20 minutes of the World at One to this story.

Dorothy Wilson

charles hercock: well, Blair stayed when he was the subject of a police inquiry into cash for honours.

Dorothy Wilson

PS: Have we given up the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty?

PeterR

With the country in the middle of a major financial crisis, brought about by a combination of politicians and inept bankers, has parliament really got nothing better to do than hold an enquiry into whether some of their mobile phones have been tapped? In any case they should also concern themselves with whether their land lines have been tapped, I'm told that is much easier to do.

Many of our MPs possess a vastly inflated view of their own importance.

Cjamesk

Dorothy the Labour mantra is Guilty until proven innocent, it's a disgrace that this chamber debate drew more "honourable" members than the debate on Afghanistan.

Self serving is too far a word removed, I don't like Murdoch but I hope he hits Labour with both barrels and the Beeb.

Phil

Dorothy - "Everyone is innocent unless proven guilty" but the BBC and the Guardian have one exception "unless, however convoluted the association, they are in any way targetable as supporters or in some way connected with the Tories.

adrian harper

yes the tories were never guilty of blatant tribalism were they ? lol
re dorothy "innocent until proven guilty"
i don't remember tory supporters pulling any punches when labour were in government.

Woody

It was interesting seeing Chris Bryant and Simon Hughes sat in the HoC having a tete-a-tete yesterday - I wonder why?

London Calling

Please note…your call maybe recorded and be used for training purposes alternatively your call may be recorded without your knowledge and used for anyone’s guess depending on what information is obtained…

Don’t panic…National Security isn’t half as important as secrets, lies and what’s for dinner darling?

Coulson looks like a snake in the grass….Labour got their way? Good….

Liz Brown

Does anybody outside the Liebore Westminster crowd give a toss about any of this? No questions asked at PMQ yesterday re malpractice of the Inland Revenue. Soldiers being killed in an illegal war, people losing their homes and jobs - all thanks to the thanks to the useless bunch of Liebour idiots and they whinge on about phone tapping by the NOTW. Time they got real. I really am not interested

rumpo

Oops. Wave Bye Bye to your dirty tricks master "Dave".

denis cooper

Tankus -

"This just shows that most of our MP's are an utter bunch of self serving f'ers, with very little care or consideration for our country."

How can that be so, when they were all carefully pre-selected and selected as official candidates for their parties, without which recommendation to the voters none of them would ever have been elected?

It might be concluded, therefore, that each of the political parties themselves must be controlled by an utter bunch of self serving f'ers, with very little care or consideration for our country, but how could that possibly be true?

After all, the leaders of two of those parties, plus clutches of other party oligarchs, are now ministers in Her Majesty's Government, and surely it can't be the case that we've allowed an utter bunch of self serving f'ers, with very little care or consideration for our country, to rise to such elevated positions?

Norman Dee

At the root of this drive by the BBC and the Guardian is there intense jealousy of Richard Murdoch. They see the power he has and they want to do the same, why should this oik from down under influence and control British life, thats their job ! Especially as he is rich and in their world only they are supposed to have big wage packets. His dislike of their marxist philosophy doesn't help either.

Tarka the Rotter

Can we also have an inquiry into the appropriateness of posting pictures of yourself on a gay website wearing only your underpants when you are, in fact, a public servant? Can we also have an inquiry into Damian McBride et al? Can we inquire why the former Prime Monster is tapping away on his word processor up in Kirkaldy whilst drawing a salary for a job he is not doing?

Tarka the Rotter

@ London calling

"Coulson looks like a snake in the grass…...."

We all know where Chris Bryant keeps his snake... and so do thousands of Gaydar customers...

Fitalass

I thought that it was the Westminster MP's who got the inquiry into the media they wanted today?
I think there are still festering wounds from the expenses scandal.

Holly ......

Charles hercock.
Going by the interview with Kay Burley on Sky news,Chris Bryant attacked Kay for suggesting such a thing,calling her 'a bit dim',and Adam.
This is no longer just about Coulson,Labour see a chance to reel in the freedoms they enjoyed whilst in government.
The story will become, over the next few weeks/months.....the newspapers themselves.
Will they take this lying down?
Labour bent over backwards to stop the expenses coming to light on privacy stuff,without the newspaper,we would NEVER have found out what the troughing dogs were doing.
If illegal practices are used,procecute...
Which is what happened at the NoTW.
So you see Charles,Coulson is no longer the story for the likes of Chris Bryant,that story was getting nowhere.
Oh no Bryant has bigger fish to fry...the newspapers.

AndyLeeds

A complete waste of Common's time, but nothing new in that. Nor is there anything new in the allegations - and that is all they are - in the New York Times. If the Labour Party are saying Andy Coulson knew of phone tapping and sanctioned it then they should bloody well prove it - NOW.

If there is to be an investigation then let it be wider. Lets see what the Mirror, Guardian, Observer and the BBC get up too also. That would be fun.

Paddy

Don't mind us.

Let the country go to the 'dogs' so long as labour get their enquiry.

Watching the reporter who is making NOTW allegations - Coulson has nothing to fear.

A drunken idiot!

JohnAnt

Remind me - why is it a greater 'threat to democracy' for MPs to have their answerphone messages listened to, rather than when it happens to the rest of us?
These Westminster wimps - they are so up themselves.

TrevorsDen

"your call may be recorded without your knowledge and used for anyone’s guess"

You do not seem to be understanding the issue.

No telephone calls have been recorded. All some NOTW reporters did was what anyone could do - they rang a number and when it went to answer-phone they accesses the code to listen to the messages. 0000 unless you change it.

Its not certain that this is breaking the law - what law?

alexsandr

Trevorsden. You have to wonder about the intelect of some people who are supposed to be running the country that they cant change the password on their answering service.. I bet their email password is still 'password' too