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Originally Posted by TheDon
Firstly, Mr Alexander is only a media spokesman, he isn't privy to any of the internal communications about this, he's speaking solely as an outside observer.
If anyone is in any doubt that Mr Alexander is not privy to anything that's not public, I point you to this quote from him just four days before Mandelson dropped the disconnection bombshell:
A strange comment from a "mover and shaker" ahead of an announcement that they were looking at going further with the technical clamp down then they have ever suggested before! |
21st October 2009 - publication of James Alexander's comments on a "backdown" as previously mooted by Bradshaw and kindly linked to by yourself.
28th October (seven days after that publication date - not four) and Mandleson (who happens to be Bradshaw's superior) delivers his latest proposals which Bradshaw subsequently - and unsurprisingly fully endorses in his closing speech to c&binet.
Go figure.