Tony & Dave Have the Same Taste in Men…
27 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
in British Politics, Scandal Tags: david cameron, News International, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Vince Cable
There have been so many memoirs published since the Labour Governmet left office in May. We have had the Journey, the third man and the Blair years. I thought no more could come out of the woodwork, until I read a piece on guardian.co.uk about “Thirty New Facts About Gordon Brown”. http://bit.ly/hHXQEx
The thrirty things were extracts from a new book by Anthony Seldon about the Brown premiership called “Brown at Number 10”. According to Seldon, (who interviewed vast numbers of primary witnesses, both members of the then government as well as, crucially, civil servants) Ed Balls said Blair made it very clear to Gordon that he had to come across as tough; the News International people would worry if he was not. That is why he did 42 days,” on the subject of the Commons vote on 42 day detention without trial.
The power of News International and the Murdoch family in this country is something we should all feel pretty strongly about, as they own one third of all newspapers in this country and are attempting to take over one of the largest television providers in the nation.
I am an avid opponent of Murdoch inc. as Rupert Murdoch is how I imagine a physical manifestation of the spirit of Satan would be, plus I don’t fancy living in an Australian dictatorship.
On a slightly more serious note, we should be learning lessons from what has been happening in Italy during the reign of Silvio Berlusconi. The Berlusconi media empire is eroding Italian democracy, propping up a truly unpleasant leader who is in power almost entirely because he owns and/or controls vast swathes of the Italian media.
The fact that Murdoch Inc. and “the News International people” have so much influence in areas of such massive important is a fact that should set alarms bells ringing up and down the land.
The Vince Cable honey-trap should have helped us all remember that Vince, unlike Dave and Co., doesn’t like old Rupert either. How Dave slapped Vince down however, is another thing that should make us all brick it, just a tad, about the extent to which Dave is Rupert Murdoch’s lap dog.
