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Originally Posted by Flyboy
It is a bit disingenuous to assume that just because Coulson "resigned" from Number Ten, it disengages him from Cameron and this whole sorry mess. I know that is what the plan is, for everyone to resign with the hope that no one will notice, but I don't think that even the Great British Public are that naive.
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As you said, something new would have to come to light for this to seriously damage Cameron. This scandal does damage him a bit as all negative press accumulates to create a negative picture eventually, but I don't think it's much more than. It's akin to all the mini-scandals that enveloped Blair in the early years. Takes the shine off but never caused a serious problem for him.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Coulson is a red herring. He worked for the News of the Screws a long time ago and left Cameron's employ long before the current scandal blew up. We have all made bad decisions from time to time. Not everything is a critical issue, no matter how often the leader of the Opposition might claim it is.
The far more worrying issue is Cameron's long term, and continuing friendship with that nasty piece of work Rebekah Brooks, and by extension the Murdochs themselves. Still worse is the prospect that the Commissioner of the Met had concerns about sharing operational information with the Prime Minister because of the PM's social connections.
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I missed this....
Like I said previously the biggest scandal here is not the relatively begin, albeit disgusting, phone hacking allegations but the suggestion that the police were routinely bribed for information, that the leaders of Met enjoyed a close relationship with the senior executives at News International even while they were under investigation, and that these led to the police to decide against a proper investigation
twice because they feared it would harm their relationship with News International. That News Corp felt they could operate above the law, and actually did for a while, is the biggest scandal of it all and hopefully that will be outed and those involved punished with safeguards to ensure it can never happen again.
If it turns out the PM was also involved then that's even worse.