(not satire – it’s the Telegraph!)
In a perfect illustration of the sad state of the UK today, we’ve got corrupt newspapers breaking stories about corrupt MPs in order to distract from stories about their own corruption.
Don’t get me wrong – I think it’s great how Tory MP Malcolm Rifkind and Labour MP Jack Straw have been caught red-handed accepting money from lobbyists.
Labour has even suspended Jack Straw MP, which is also good. Although, it’s a pity it wasn’t for his role in the Iraq War, or indeed for this:
Jack Straw on child abuse: “The terms of the agreement did not include an apology”
However, I hope it’s not only me who sees the irony in the fact that it was the Daily Telegraph – along with Channel 4’s Dispatches programme – which broke the story?
Because considering the Telegraph has just been caught red-handed blatantly suppressing articles on its pages in order to placate its advertisers, we could say this is a case of a money-for-NO-questions newspaper attacking money-for-questions MPs.
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By the way, anyone looking for an easy part-time job:
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
How to Dig a Hole – by the Daily Telegraph
How Telegraph execs tried to stop Tom Watson MP’s inquiries into paedophilia
Daily Telegraph dramatically accused of “fraud” over HSBC bank coverage
(Facepalm) Daily Telegraph: tax dodging Monaco Tory billionaire hates Labour
Meet the Telegraph journalist on a one woman campaign to smear the NHS
This Telegraph article about Emma Watson has just murdered satire in cold blood
Daily Telegraph uses death of baby and outright lies to smear NHS
The Telegraph lied. Here’s their apology to Margaret Hodge MP
Daily Telegraph on racism – it’s just self-pitying b*ll*cks!
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And covering up the fact that it had two paedophile journalists on board as well
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/01/its-poverty-not-race-that-ought-to-concern-us-more/
Don’t know if you saw this a while ago?
Blimey has the Speccie been taken over by communists now!?
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Aha. The link in that Speccie piece on poverty now reports this
“page not found”
Ah normality has returned to spectator land
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Thing is that piece about poverty should concern us appeared in guess where?
The Faily Torygraph
Whatever is going on at that place?
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“botha couple of crooked mossad jewboys on the take malcolm Rifkind knoewn as ” malcolm the poof ” is in charge of the JIC or joing intelligence committee the highest security position in the land and ideal to sell us out to his mossad controllers, this means every intelligence operation carried out by us is compromised and many have been seized while on foreign soil some killed some tortured and some turned. this pair should be shot”
That was posted on another blog about straw and rifkind
Thing is should an admin
Pass this with that racial epithet in it?
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Agree with bobchewie that those two should be shot or in a civilized world ‘slung in jail for rest of their lives’ ,,many others as well who have been forced into ‘our’ ruling elite by greed and power obsessed lunatic aliens.
Gotta hand it to tom though as well for the headline lol spot on 🙂
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Will all this stuff permeate through to the great unwashed – i.e. the electorate, who probably think the Barclay twins own Barclay’s bank and tax avoidance is something benefit claimers do by not earning enough!
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Daijohn you raise a good point there I wonder how many people would recognise Iain Drunken Schitt if shown a photo of the deranged psychopath?
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal.
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The Daily Telegraph was coming under unprecedented public scrutiny last week over its executives trying to stop an MPs questions into Paedophilia in Westminster, and then about removing, from the Internet, a previous report about HSBC and a large hole in its finances. One of the newspapers esteemed political writers then suddenly resigns and writes a scathing report about the newspaper. Almost the next day, another story emerges that The Daily Telegraph’s owners, the Barclay brothers, had received huge loans from HSBC to fund one of their failing companies. It seemed as if the Telegraph was on a downward spiral of negative publicity. However, by the Monday of the following week all the attention was transferred onto corrupt politicians- as Tom Pride succinctly puts it- politicians getting paid for questions rather than getting paid for not asking questions (about Westminster paedophile allegations).
All this “coincidence”, makes me wonder how long Channel 4 was sitting on this information about Rifkind and Straw (we haven’t been told when the ‘sting’ took place nor the name of the Chinese company they are claiming is fictitious). I also question whether the Daily Telegraph was involved in the sting at all, as in my mind its far more likely that Channel 4’s Dispatches programme already had the information, perhaps for some time, but agreed with the Daily Telegraph to stamp their name on the report in order to take the attention of the allegations relating to HSBC, and to give the public the impression it was on the side of revealing the truth rather than trying to cover it up.
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Roadrunner: A view through the cynical looking glass, but the logic and persuasiveness is undeniable. I await Private Eye’s interpretation perhaps.
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