Vince Cable
For fumbling the biggest chance in three decades to limit the poisonous influence of the Murdoch family because he was too busy boasting to a couple of pretty girls.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:50, 8 replies)

He was even more of a mug
for thinking he even had a chance of getting one over on News International. Most of these Lib Dems have suddenly developed a massively inflated sense of their own importance/influence.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:57, closed)

It was never going to happen under the Tories
How strange that a non-pro-Murdoch minister in a Tory government was forced out after a sting by a right-wing paper. Whodathunkit???
( calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:06, closed)

You're forgetting that the Torygraph has no love for Murdoch, though.
Yes, it happens to share a certain party-political affiliation with the Sun and Times; but it's ideologically rather different, and is, when it comes down to brass tacks, still a commercial rival.

(Also, note that Murdoch only ever has political allegiances as a matter of convenience. He supported Labour between 1997 and about 2009.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:11, closed)

It's not about editorial line or commercial rivalry
It's about issues of ownership, where there might well be common ground
( calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:20, closed)

Apparently the heir apparent (James Murdoch)
isn't particularly interested in print media and would prefer to concentrate on telly/new media...so yeah, encouraging him in that direction (by allowing greater ownership of BSB) would be useful for commercial rivals. Possibly.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:24, closed)

oooh, new conspiracy theory...
Get Assange on the case!
(Darth Thump, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:11, closed)

I think it would have been better if the
pretty girls had slept with Cable for the information, we could of then seen the headline -

LAYING CABLE
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:38, closed)

He was good in Erasure though, wasn't he.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:53, closed)