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Well, as it has come to light... Maybe they will come under inspection too?

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I believe that's one of the public enquiries announced

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In these austere times, can we afford a show trial though?

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That's what bears use!! Andrex NOTW has more going for it.

Once you've used the product, you could attempt the mirror image of the crossword printed on your er$e... I think I've got their slogan...... flexible mind, flexible body, flexible with the truth;)

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Just when you thought those hacks couldn't go any lower, turns out they bugged ET phoning home as well...

Very poor jokes aside The Sun's sub editors have walked out in sympathy, can't publish a paper without them although they may well have the first edition to see them through today.

Sub editors at The Sun have walked out in protest at the closure of sister Sunday title The News of the World, the NUJ has announced.

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/0...world-closure/

Feel quite bad for NotW 160+ years tossed away :(

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No agenda or slant in that article, eh?

btw, I agree with the sentiment of the article, just not the tone...

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This is the type of incident that i feel the union should get its self involved with. This one incident is making me think again as to WHY there are unions and WHY we do need them.

Murdock thinks he can buy his way out of this by giving money to charity

Murdock thinks he can save his senior managers

Murdock has shown he does not give a sod about his hard working staff

I say let the UNION go to war on him.

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Unions are there to serve their members first and foremost and they are not there to satisfy the whims of any one union leader in which a example of that would be Arthur Scargill.

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Indeed. As i said this incident has shown that there are reasons for unions and in this case a need for said union to give Murdock and his management an arse whooping.

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Rupert murdoch has shown here what he has always shown before and that is a utter contempt for those who work on the boiler face and as the old saying goes The fox changes his fur but not his habits.

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Indeed it is Murdoch who is credited and applauded with breaking the once powerful print unions of Fleet Street..

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It was the political will at the time that provided Murdoch with the tools. Union leadership had gone power Crazy at the time and needed reining in. Murdoch served a politcal favour at the time and has been calling in favours ever since.

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It was also technological advances that contributed to his ability to take them on..but that is a whole other story and thread..;)

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Indeed some will credit him with that and while a union supporter myself l do not like tyrannical or personality led union leaders because as l have said before union leaders are there to represent their workers and their proper rights and not themselves.