murdoch rules, OK?

COMMENT

Christmas week's big story was the shock-horror drama of a politician being caught out telling the truth. The business secretary Vince Cable, reckoned by many to be the most popular politician in Britain, apparently thought the increased power being sought by Rupert Murdoch was a bad idea for our nation, he being quite powerful enough already. He also said 1 or 2 other things that were perhaps a little less well judged, like him holding some sort of nuclear trigger with which he could nuke the government. Well, he thought he was speaking privately (he checked in advance whether this was to be an off-the-record conversation, and the liars from the Daily Telegraph confirmed that it was) and in those situations you can let your mouth run a little- we've all done that.

But what disturbs me is that the story's energy has been expended on the disastrous "fall of Vince" and not on what he actually did say- that Murdoch and his monopoy building is bad for us, and bad for the freedom of the world as a whole. And how do the (tory) government respond? They replace Cable (anti-Murdoch) with Jeremy Cunt, who couldn't be more pro-Murdoch if he tried. He's gone public more than once saying how wonderful he and his organisation is. I wonder how that decision about giving him even more control is going to go now? Well duh...