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^^^ I think that we are thankfully, passed a point where a few sacrificial lambs will abate the public revulsion of all this.
Cameron will be giving a press conference later this afternoon, that will be interesting, as he has BIG questions to answer about hiring Coulson. I would not be suprised if he started coming under real pressure to resign if he does not give previously unheard, and very persuasive arguements as to why he gave him a job, because at the moment no one can have confidence in his judgement. If he does resign there will be a general election in months for two reasons; the first being that Clegg will be de-facto PM and has no mandate to do so, the second being that the Tories could not hold on for the next general elections after all the shit they gave Gordon Brown for doing the same.
The MET will come out of this looking very, very bad I would not be surprised if there was not a massive public consultation process as to what to do about it especially after reading the article that adoubletap linked to.
I cannot believe that the public will consider the type of tabloid journalism we have become accustomed to acceptable in the future. Additionally I think that papers will be much more tightly regulated, especially when it comes to citing sources.
Oh Yeah and I think that Murdoch will be fucked by association, this will not go down well in the states, especially with his core demographic at FOX News.