Rebekah Brooks overload...

[bernard72]

"when Coulson and Brooks are sent down"
Sounds like we don't need a jury.

[Peter]

bernard72 wrote:

> "when Coulson and Brooks are sent down"
> Sounds like we don't need a jury.

I think that decision has already been made. It's just a show trial.

[number 6]

Her hubbby "champagne" charlie brooks used to employ one of the biggest cheats in racing to ride his horses,a conniving pair they were back in the day charlie brooks used to train.

[frankthring]

I liked your NOW headline for the trial, David. Very funny ! I hated that damned paper all my working life. I saw friends (in our biz 20 yrs ago) hurt by its shoddy "revelations". Britain is a slightly cleaner land without it. Brooks, Coulson and Co have the right to a fair trial. If they lose it will be, I feel, splendid justice.

[David Johnson]

"I think that decision has already been made. It's just a show trial."

Yes indeed.

"Then News of the World editor Andy Coulson told a senior journalist investigating an exclusive story on television celebrity Calum Best to "do his phone", a court has heard. Mr Coulson emailed the instruction to his then head of news, Ian Edmondson, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said."

I assume that what Coulson meant was that his head of news should superglue Best's handset so he couldn't send any more tedious texts. Right?

And obviously having appointed Coulson as Media Director and given him access to classified information without ensuring Coulson had the necessary clearance, Call me Dave will be absolutely delighted if Coulson is convicted because then the general population can consider Cameron even more of an idiot than they already do and Cameron can look forward to apologising to the House of Commons for his idiocy.

[planeterotica]

I bet the Lezzies in Holloway are fingering themselves like fuck awating a fresh from the market bit of ginger !drool!

[max_tranmere]

I wonder what the outcome of this will be, some well known names who go to prison seem to get special treatment: the MP's who were jailed over the expenses scandal and Chris Huhne and his wife recently too. They get a sentence and serve less than half, and in the case of Huhne and his wife end up panellists and interviewee's on news programmes still - like nothing happened. Then there are people like Jonathan Aitken, the former Tory minister who got 18 months for perjury, he served half his sentence but was ostracised and frozen-out by all his former colleagues afterwards. He also went bankrupt and came near to killing himself. Brooks and co aren't politicians but are kind of 'society people'. I predict short sentences, them having to serve about one-quarter of them, and after they are released they'll still be seen as big-nobs and will be appearing on TV and in the press as if nothing happened - like Huhne and his wife.

[max_tranmere]

Let's hope there really is no escape for Cameron over this. There are two things I think Cameron genuinely regrets: one is the existence of that photo of him, Boris Johnson, and numerous other toffs when they were all about 19 and members of the Bullingdon club; and the second is his association with Andy Coulson. If he and his inner-circle can't keep this off the front pages when they are all sentenced there will have to be some kind of 'damage limitation' exercise put into place, one thing they might be planning to do is to say Cameron was 'poorly advised' over the decision to employ Coulson, therefore blaming the creation of the Cameron/Coulson association on someone else. He is genuinely stuck with regard to his association with Rebekah Brooks though, texting each other with 'lol' on the texts and hanging out together in Chipping Norton. He is screwed as far as that's concerned and will just have to weather the fall-out when she is sentenced.

[max_tranmere]

' "when Coulson and Brooks are sent down" Sounds like we don't need a jury.'

It seems inevitable they will be jailed.

[David Johnson]

You need to remember there is a hell of a difference between taking someone's speeding points and running an organisation in which phone hacking of murdered teenager's mobiles and the like was endemic, in addition to bribing police officers and prison staff.

If Brooks and Coulson are found guilty, then I suspect that they will held in nothing but contempt by the vast majority of right thinking people. Personally though, I would pay money to see Coulson and Brooks on the same chat show as the Dowlers.