Only Clegg has the power to rid us of the mess in Cameron's mind!

On 5th September 2010, I wondered on the apparent absence of any moral compass in the make-up of Prime Minister, David Cameron, over his appointment of Andy Coulson, to Downing street, read here. That posting concluded with the following stark truths for Liberal Democrats:

Liberal Democrats not wishing to now become tarred by the same brush of sleaze, half-truths and downright untruths which the Downing Street media manipulation machine has become over recent years should quickly re-examine the backgrounds and lack of integrity and judgement that seems to be the rule among the leadership of their coalition partners as Parliament re-convenes after its long break during the past crisis ridden summer. Does the country really wish the connotation of 10 Downing Street to be set by former News of the World editor Andy Coulson? If so many former Tory Prime Ministers must now be turning in their graves.

In May this year a wake-up call to Paddy Ashdown on the Blog Orphans of Liberty, to which I at least received the courtesy of a reply, that cannot be linked at present as the site is down, but the repeat of the posting on this blog is linked here. It began as follows:

In the fraught days of two years ago, when the general election delivered a hung parliament to Britain, the crucial role played by former Liberal Democrat Party Leader, Lord Paddy Ashdown, became evident through his frquent media appearences and statements. An even more critical turning point now presents itself to this senior party grandée, and self-appointed representative of decency within Britain's system of governance.

Can Lord Ashdown still shrug off my concerns so readily today as he felt able so to do last May?

Last evening on Sky News we watched Business Secretary of State, Vince Cable, squirm on the Jeff Randall Live interview, whilst trying to defend the completely odious Lord Green whom it appears was content to oversee activities while in charge at HSBC  rightly condemned last week in the US Congress.

Nick Clegg must be woken up to realise that the connotations of linking names such as Osborne/Oleg Deripaska and Coulson/Wade will hardly sit well with voters seeking a change from the present corrupt methods of contemporary politics and an escape from being governed according to the priorities and perogatives of the messy mind inside the head of David Cameron.

All this takes on an even greater urgency when the extent of the disaster in the Euro Group is taken on board, Britain will need some right thinking individuals looking out for the nation's interests as these events unfold, as it appears ever more doubtful that this crisis is going to permit Europe's leaders and coddled fonctionaires their usual two month summer break, while matters fester and deteriorate ever further, they can hardly surely now hardly get any worse?

Hunt and officials worked to block Murdcoch's Sky bid opponents

The Guardian's most recent scoop on the crisis that is now clearly engulfing number 10 Downing Street, is linked here.

Hunt is clinging on in an attempt to defy gravity as it has been perfectly clear for the past few days that should he go, THEN MUST Cameron quickly follow behind. Looking at the facts exposed from Leveson, who can be diverted from all the evidence of Cameron's schmoozing with the powers that be at News International, THEREFORE what Hunt's task in this matter involved. Not one single word needed to be uttered to that effect!

The crucial element is the complicity in all this of all those Conservative MPs who gave Cameron their support as their leader, presumably because they hoped his vacuity and PR glitz would dupe the voters. It did not, it instead duped Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, that is the sole reason why Britain has Cameron, the creature of the EU (which apparently is all the LibDems desire,) in place as PM today.

Clegg too must have known the score, why else did he accept Coulson at Number 10, as this blog has asked many, many times?

Cameron's stain on Downing Street - Andy Coulson!

Any self-respecting Conservative Party voter should look at the output of any typical edition of the scandal sheet that appeared every sunday in Britain between 2003 and 2007 under the title News of the World, as edited by Andy Coulson and ponder what moral compass could be possessed by a Prime Minister who would appoint such a man as Head of Communications at Number 10 Downing Street, the publicly owned property assigned for the use of the nation's presiding political leader. Doubts about the judgement of William Hague, (effectively Conservative Deputy Leader to Cameron, who the Independent on Sunday, this morning reports, pushed the candidacy of this individual to the latter) now abound and seem only answerable by his resignation, yet the decision to take the already somewhat shop-soiled Coulson on board at Downing Street, was Cameron's alone, continuing the close role he enjoyed during the Tory election campaign (in which, tellingly, the country declined to give the no-mark Cameron a majority) thus contnuing the tradition of such unscrupulous media manipulators at the centre of government, begun under the serial liar Blair with Alistair Campbell. The New York Times, on page MM30 of its Sunday Magazine this morning has a pretty full disclosure of the phone bugging scandal at the News of the World which was carried on during Coulson's rule as editor. The report, running to eight pages, may be read online from this link. Quoted below is a small extract from Page 2 of the article: "... interviews with more than a dozen former reporters and editors at News of the World present a different picture of the newsroom. They described a frantic, sometimes degrading atmosphere in which some reporters openly pursued hacking or other improper tactics to satisfy demanding editors. Andy Coulson, the top editor at the time, had imposed a hypercompetitive ethos, even by tabloid standards. One former reporter called it a “do whatever it takes” mentality. The reporter was one of two people who said Coulson was present during discussions about phone hacking. Coulson ultimately resigned but denied any knowledge of hacking." David Cameron, fond of being snapped breathing germs only millimetres from the faces of his various offspring, is in reality a hard nosed political opportunist, who (as this blog has repeatedly raised in various postings) has already sold out the main firm commitment from the Conservative manifesto remaining in the Coalition Agreement, namely not to surrender further British Sovereignty to the EU, having done just that on 17th June at the EU Council. Liberal Democrats not wishing to now become tarred by the same brush of sleaze, half-truths and downright untruths which the Downing Street media manipulation machine has become over recent years should quickly re-examine the backgrounds and lack of integrity and judgement that seems to be the rule among the leadership of their coalition partners as Parliament re-convenes after its long break during the past crisis ridden summer. Does the country really wish the connotation of 10 Downing Street to be set by former News of the World editor Andy Coulson? If so many former Tory Prime Ministers must now be turning in their graves.