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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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17:12 EST, 24 April 2012
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05:06 EST, 25 April 2012
The decision to put Jeremy Hunt in charge of ruling on whether Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation should be allowed to take full control of BSkyB – a deal with huge ramifications for the British media and public – always carried a bad smell.
After all, the Culture and Media Secretary had gone on record to fawn that Mr Murdoch had ‘done more to create variety and choice in British TV than any other single person’.
Now, however, devastating emails released by the Leveson Inquiry have revealed that Mr Hunt was not merely a sycophant: he was apparently prepared to give the Murdoch empire utterly improper access to the inner sanctum of the Cameron government.
Sycophant: Evidence shown to the Leveson Inquiry suggests Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt agreed to wave through News Corporation’s takeover of BSkyB
The News Corp lobbyist who penned these extraordinary messages to his boss James Murdoch repeatedly says he has been assured by Mr Hunt’s special adviser that the Minister supports the BSkyB deal – and can see no problem with it being nodded through.
Incredibly, senior Murdoch executives even knew the content of speeches by Mr Hunt before he had made them.
And this from a man who had promised to be impartial over a deal opposed by an unprecedented alliance of the BBC, the Mail, Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Daily Mirror, BT and Channel 4.
How unforgivably hollow that pledge now appears.
As this paper argued at the time, the takeover bid (eventually withdrawn after the hacking scandal) would have profoundly changed the media landscape – creating a behemoth that disadvantaged smaller firms, leaving consumers with less choice and inevitably higher bills.
The safest and most straightforward option for Mr Hunt was to pass this takeover to the Competition Commission to conduct a comprehensive and transparent investigation.
Revelations: James Murdoch gives evidence to the Leveson Inquiry
Instead, according to the emails, he connived to try to have the deal waved through – just as his adviser had apparently promised the Murdochs.
Shouldn’t the Minister have been standing up for the public’s interests – rather than appearing to do favours for the rich and powerful?
In truth, yesterday was a grim day for the integrity of politics in general – and the close-knit circle of ‘Cameroons’, of whom Mr Hunt is one, in particular.
Close set: It has been suggested that the Prime Minister discussed the takeover with Mr Murdoch at a dinner hosted by former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks
We already knew the Prime Minister had shown a disturbing lack of judgment in attending a notorious Christmas dinner at Rebekah Brooks’ home in 2010 when the takeover was at a critical stage.
Now we learn that at the same cosy event, Mr Cameron discussed the deal directly with James Murdoch.
The PM became too close to the Murdochs and yesterday, by releasing these emails, they wreaked what many will see as a terrible revenge for the way they were cast adrift by Ministers once the hacking scandal erupted.
Nor does this sorry saga reflect well on ex-Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, who ruled that – despite his avowed admiration for News Corp – Mr Hunt was fit to adjudicate on the takeover, once the decision had been taken away from Business Secretary Vince Cable in 2010.
By last night, there were calls from the Labour Party for Mr Hunt to resign for falling ‘woefully short’ of the standards expected of a Secretary of State.
For now, Mr Hunt has the backing of the Prime Minister. He says he won’t resign. He insists he conducted the process with scrupulous fairness. He argues that we have heard ‘one side of the story’ and that when he has his day at Leveson, a very different picture will emerge.
But surely the damage is done. Mr Hunt’s fitness for high office has been called into grave question.
And the public’s already battered trust in the integrity of our political class has suffered yet another shuddering blow.
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the biggest problem is when you change governments you dont change the staff in the departments so bad practices and advice just keep getting covered up when a government changes so should its advisers
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At 7:30 I posted that Hunt would push the blame downwards and lo and behold he did! I also suggested that the Tory supporter defence would be along the lines of ‘Labour were just as bad’ and look, out come the Tory posters who condemn one set of politicians but can’t quite bring themselves to condemn the current government. Double standards doesn’t begin to describe you, you should all become politicians yourselves!
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Now its been revealed GB was unbalanced in mind……………..you don’t say, wasn’t he part of the Scottish clan who ruled us…………..LOLOLOLOLOL
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Now its been revealed GB was unbalanced in mind……………..you don’t say, wasn’t he part of the Scottish clan who ruled us…………..LOLOLOLOLOL
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” A man who has promised to be impartial.” The problem is that the man is a shameful liar You should have attend the meeting he had with his constituents after the Expensive scandal. I would not have thought that anybody could lie as he did and ……Ninety per cent of the attendance was cheering him. To think that his name is put forward as a future PM is just frightening.
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Be a brave chap Hunt and suck it up and resign. No use blaming an aide when the buck stops with you.
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Film director James Cameron made a blockbuster out of a ship hitting an iceberg exactly one hundred years ago. David Cameron is steering his government towards the same fate. The only difference is that this time a whole nation will sink.
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Quote, an old saying.
“There Is NO Honour Amongst Thieves”
The whole stinks to high heaven, heads must roll.
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‘..There were calls from the Labour Party for Mr Hunt to resign for falling ‘woefully short’ of standards expected…’ …They have a nerve to come out with that, after they collectively destroyed the UK with their utter incompetence, and ‘low standards’.
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Obviously Blair and co are INNOCENT as the day they where born!
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