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Old 17 July 2011, 02:53 PM
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Default Rebekah Brooks arrested

Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World.

The 43-year-old was arrested by appointment at a London police station and remains in custody.

She was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption allegations.
Old 17 July 2011, 02:56 PM
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No, but surely an MP should not be advertising himself so graphically for sex with people he does not know. But then my moral standards are obviously so much higher than yours.

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Firstly what business of ours is it what an MP or anyone else for that matter does in his/her private life as long as it isn't breaking the law?

Secobdly I don't think the advertising for sex bit was the issue for the press. The gay bit was!
Old 17 July 2011, 03:03 PM
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It was on a public dating forum as far as I can gather. And as he evidently wanted to keep it quiet then that would leave him open to blackmail etc.

I think he was more embarrassed about making a tit of himself than anything else as he's never tried to hide hide his sexuality anyway.

I doubt the hairy arsed miners in his constituency were impressed with him. After all if you put a sheep with a red rosette up for parliamentary election in the Rhondda Valley it would get the vote.

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Old 17 July 2011, 03:21 PM
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Firstly what business of ours is it what an MP or anyone else for that matter does in his/her private life as long as it isn't breaking the law?
Because when people in highly responsibleduly elected Government positions mix with the 'wrong' crowd, it can lead to potentially serious breaches of national security.
Remember the Profumo affair:
'In July 1961, Ward introduced her to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Lord Astor. Profumo entered into an affair with Keeler, not realising that she was also sleeping with drug dealer Johnny Edgecombe as well as Yevgeni Ivanov, a Naval Attache at the embassy of the Soviet Union.'
From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Keeler
Old 17 July 2011, 03:59 PM
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Rebekah Brooks...............sexy, or not.

I say yes.
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No!

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Originally Posted by Blue by You
Because when people in highly responsibleduly elected Government positions mix with the 'wrong' crowd, it can lead to potentially serious breaches of national security.
Remember the Profumo affair:
'In July 1961, Ward introduced her to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Lord Astor. Profumo entered into an affair with Keeler, not realising that she was also sleeping with drug dealer Johnny Edgecombe as well as Yevgeni Ivanov, a Naval Attache at the embassy of the Soviet Union.'
From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Keeler
Ron Davies!

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Originally Posted by Blue by You
Because when people in highly responsibleduly elected Government positions mix with the 'wrong' crowd, it can lead to potentially serious breaches of national security.
Remember the Profumo affair:
'In July 1961, Ward introduced her to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Lord Astor. Profumo entered into an affair with Keeler, not realising that she was also sleeping with drug dealer Johnny Edgecombe as well as Yevgeni Ivanov, a Naval Attache at the embassy of the Soviet Union.'
From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Keeler
But they weren't having a go about him mixing with the 'wrong' crowd. They were having abgo about him being gay!!!

And it is still none of our business what anyone does in their private life!
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Originally Posted by Chip
After all if you put a sheep with a red rosette up for parliamentary election in the Rhondda Valley it would get the vote.
That's the Welsh for you... as thick as two short planks!
Old 17 July 2011, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
That's the Welsh for you... as thick as two short planks!

No, no, no you don't understand. We in Cardiff are a different breed from the Valleyites, thank god

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Old 17 July 2011, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
But they weren't having a go about him mixing with the 'wrong' crowd. They were having abgo about him being gay!!!

And it is still none of our business what anyone does in their private life!
So you can't get gay spies or foriegn embassy staff?
I don't see his sexual orientation has anything to do with the security risk he poses to the country, Profumo wasn't gay (as far as I know).
The fact that he holds a senior public office and was openly advertising himself for sex with unknown people renders him liable to scrutiny as a potential security risk.
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Originally Posted by paulr
Rebekah Brooks...............sexy, or not.

I say yes.
Are you ill?
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Firstly what business of ours is it what an MP or anyone else for that matter does in his/her private life as long as it isn't breaking the law?

Secobdly I don't think the advertising for sex bit was the issue for the press. The gay bit was!
I'd agree with that except if his/her private behavior showed he was a hypocrite with his/her political policies.

Like for example if he/she was campaigning for say 'family values' but was having an affair with a married person etc.
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Rebekah Brooks and Mick Hucknall never seen in the same place at the same time.
Coincidence?
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You are on to something!!
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Originally Posted by Blue by You
So you can't get gay spies or foriegn embassy staff?
I don't see his sexual orientation has anything to do with the security risk he poses to the country, Profumo wasn't gay (as far as I know).
The fact that he holds a senior public office and was openly advertising himself for sex with unknown people renders him liable to scrutiny as a potential security risk.
Yes exactly, we are arguing from the same side of the fence. The papers were pushing the gay aspect of it not the fact he was a security risk!
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Originally Posted by Chip
No, no, no you don't understand. We in Cardiff are a different breed from the Valleyites, thank god

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Ah I see
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Yes exactly, we are arguing from the same side of the fence. The papers were pushing the gay aspect of it not the fact he was a security risk!
Gotcha

Being gay is neither here nor there really.
Rampantly gay is a different thing entirely. (so I'm told anyway )
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Originally Posted by Trout




You are on to something!!
Looks like splicers cat..

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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Yes exactly, we are arguing from the same side of the fence. The papers were pushing the gay aspect of it not the fact he was a security risk!
But he was openly gay anyway so would have had no problem with that.

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Originally Posted by DYK
Looks like splicers cat..




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When was the last time Mick Hucknall did anything artistically relevant?

Sometime sI think he's just famous for being a professional Mancunian/ManUtd fan, getting more clunge than Gene Simmons, and owning some mediocre bars in Manchester.

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Hucknall is touring with the Faces now, follow music closely do you?

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Originally Posted by Blue by You
Gotcha

Being gay is neither here nor there really.
Rampantly gay is a different thing entirely. (so I'm told anyway )
Do we have a scale of rampantness? What is the unit of measurement?
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Originally Posted by hutton_d
Not sure about units but here's a pass/fail ... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ks-i9M8LVL...1247590489.jpg ...

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I was about to ask what is RGB and then after checking out the breasts i looked a little lower.. very good.
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Originally Posted by Dunk
Phone hacking has been pumped up by the politicians to gain revenge on the media for the expenses scandal.

D
That was the Telegraph, not the Murdoch press.
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Originally Posted by hutton_d
Not sure about units but here's a pass/fail ... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ks-i9M8LVL...1247590489.jpg ...

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I saw RGB first ....










.... Really Good Breasts
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
I saw RGB first ....










.... Really Good Breasts


I was automatically drawn to the breasts.The girl in the blue pants has the best..


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