Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson: what a strange affair in Downing Street

[Nye Bevan]

My old pal Dan Levi named the Downing Street shaggers on his website last night and so since we are both being sued elsewhere (by a cesspit oil company Sefton) for libel I am happy to stand in the dock with him again and also name them. As it happens numerous other websites and folks on twitter have done the same so it will be a packed Court.

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The Government has bullied the mainstream media into silence by suggesting that revealing this may prejudice the forthcoming trials of Brooks and Coulson. Both face separate charges in relation to phone hacking. I fail to see why allegations that the two were shagging is relevant to that.

The reason the Government and David Cameron personally is terrified about this appearing is that he appointed Coulson as his spin doctor in chief instead of a safer pair of hands from the BBC on the advice of….the charming Rebekah. Rebekah was a good pal of his, lending him her horse to ride as they partied together in rural Oxfordshire. LOL. And of course Rebekah’s lawyer is….David Cameron’s big brother Alex.

Cameron looks like a buffoon with incredibly poor judgment. Chatting to Christopher Booker about this yesterday we remarked how this seemed eerily reminiscent of the last days of the MacMillan Government. An out of touch elite just cannot help but make itself look dirty and shabby as well as incompetent. While the Country faces appalling problems, Tory MPs like Patrick Mercer take bribes and then “do the honourable thing” and stay in Westminster trousering salary + expenses for another two years and Call Me Dave tries to hush up an episode which makes his judgment look incredibly poor.


http://tomwinnifrith.com/articles/3486/rebekah-brooks-and-andy-coulson-what-a-strange-affair-in-downing-street

This is the "Downing Street Sex Scandal" story that everyone in the UK is talking about but which the UK press (and most UK websites) have been bullied into not reporting. It's possible that there is a "super-injunction" in place, which prevents the affair being reported and also prevents the existence of the injunction from being reported.

[pacalo]

1. So the Downing Street affair involves Brooks & Coulson?

[Nye Bevan]

2. Yes. Everyone in the UK knows it, but nobody can say so publicly (nt)

[pacalo]

3. This doesn't make Cameron look very good.

The reason the Government and David Cameron personally is terrified about this appearing is that he appointed Coulson as his spin doctor in chief instead of a safer pair of hands from the BBC on the advice of….the charming Rebekah. Rebekah was a good pal of his, lending him her horse to ride as they partied together in rural Oxfordshire. LOL. And of course Rebekah’s lawyer is….David Cameron’s big brother Alex.

[Nye Bevan]

4. It looks awful for Cameron.

Disgraced former News International boss Rebekah Brooks intervened to persuade David Cameron to make ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson his spin doctor, it was claimed last night.
She is understood to have urged Mr Cameron to scrap plans to give the job to a senior BBC journalist. Mr Cameron was told it should go to someone who was ‘acceptable’ to News International.
The disclosure increases pressure on Mr Cameron over his close links to Mrs Brooks and the Murdoch empire.

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She is said to have told Mr Cameron that the post should go to Mr Coulson to strengthen links between the Tories and News International. He had resigned a few months earlier as News of the World editor over the phone-hacking storm.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015573/Rebekah-Brooks-vetoed-BBC-man-told-Cameron-No10-job-Andy-Coulson.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Actually, not only is not everyone talking about it, many who have talked haven't got to

talking about Brooks and Coulson yet. As an example, on a British political forum I post on (all parties - so there's Labour supporters and UKIP supporters, as well as coalition ones), there's been just 1 thread on it (started today), with 4 people posting without mentioning Brooks or Coulson. I've now posted, mentioning them - and after 4 hours, no-one's bothered to post to the thread again. Because it's not actually big news at the moment, and few think it's important if they have talked about it.

[dipsydoodle]

6. The author has used false logic

by assuming that the AG's note to the media earlier in May was connected in way, shape or form with this issue. On other blogs you'll find the suspected couple to be another.

If there is a "super-injunction" in place that's an entirely different matter from the AG's note as that would refer to specifically who the two are.

[yellowcanine]

7. Was it only those two or was it actually a threesome? Maybe that is why David is worried?