RizzyKing

As important as it is for the relationship between politicians and the press to be as clean as it can and i have my doubts it will ever be really clean given the two party's one being power hungry and prepared to do what it takes to get power and the other being hungry for dirt to dish. For me the most important thing right now is to clear up the police once and for all because the relationship between the met and the press is very disturbing as we cannot kick the met out at an election.

I have no doubt there is much more to come on this and by the time it is all done and dusted ed "hero" milliband won't be shouting so loud as there are as many skeletons in labours closet in all this as the tories. Cameron made a mistake in hiring coulson not argument there but remember no one gets that level of job without checks being made and those must have come up clean because cameron is not that big an idiot to have taken him on knowing he failed those checks.

We have to be careful here though because we may well lose a lot in return for this cleanup, we have to keep a free press and one that is not hindered overly by legislation. We cannot also have a situation where police and politicians are petrified of being seen working with the press in case of whatever. Proper checks and balances need to be put in to protect all sides in this without any side losing more then they have too to prevent this state of affairs happening again.

A good start is to make sure media ownage is never slanted to the degree it has been and to make sure there is even balance in the media with no one group able to ever exert on anyone influence that is detrimental.