U.K. election - at last a scandal?

[Quartz]

Lookee here

@The Telegraph

The BBC was last night plunged into a damaging general election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and sending them into a campaign meeting addressed by Michael Howard, the Conservative leader.

This just might be the fire that ignites the U.K. elections.

True or not, I’m hoping that sparks will fly.

[Celyn]

And Peter Mandelson is being too friendly with the “other” Microsoft man.

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It emerged in German newspaper Die Welt last week that Mandelson had enjoyed a four-day trip to the Caribbean over New Year, which he had tagged on to a working trip to Trinidad and Guyana in January.

Mandelson’s spokeswoman insisted that he had paid for the extra costs of the visit himself, and insisted that it was private. Only then did it emerge that, while there, he had met Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, during a drinks party on the billionaire’s yacht, Octopus.

The cocktail chat could be written off as an unimportant social event, except that Microsoft is currently locked in a legal battle with the Commission over its decision last year to fine the firm £497m after finding it guilty of breaking EU competition rules.

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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=436152005

[Avenger]

@Quartz

Lookee here

This just might be the fire that ignites the U.K. elections.

True or not, I’m hoping that sparks will fly.

Yeah, because what this election is crying out for is some media froth, there’s been too much serious discussion of the issues already…

[Quartz]

@Avenger

Yeah, because what this election is crying out for is some media froth, there’s been too much serious discussion of the issues already…

Hahaha!

There’s been damn-all discussion of anything. It’s as if everyone’s just going through the motions.

[guinnog]

@Quartz

Hahaha!

There’s been damn-all discussion of anything. It’s as if everyone’s just going through the motions.

Hear hear. And is some whipped-up controversy over the BBC really what we need? The BBC aren’t standing for election. I wish the Telegraph would get as excited about Howard’s vicious racism, and Blair’s lies which led us into an illegal war just so the little dickwad could cosy up to the retarded GW Bush.

Hecklers. Huh.

John

[Celyn]

System Error

Fatal Out of Democracy Error

Redo from Start.

A plague on both their houses.

[KidCharlemagne]

Is this the worst transgression by the MSM yet?

[Avenger]

@KidCharlemagne

Is this the worst transgression by the MSM yet?

By the what?

[Malodorous]

MSM = Main Stream Media

[Avenger]

Oh right. Depends what you define as mainstream I guess. And what you define as transgression…

[Domokun]

This just in, Michael Howard forgets to wash his hands! If he’d only cross the street without looking both ways then TB has it in the bag.

[Quartz]

Well, it looks like a Tory candidate is being accused of phantom postal votes.

[Quartz]

Well, the latest on the Iraq war seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons. Of course, just as this was leaked, so I expect a further leak next week taking the wind out of the Tories’ sails and exhonorating Mr Blair.

[Avenger]

@Quartz

Well, the latest on the Iraq war seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons. Of course, just as this was leaked, so I expect a further leak next week taking the wind out of the Tories’ sails and exhonorating Mr Blair.

I’m not sure what that would be a leak of? Unless it turned out that the UNSC actually had passed a resolution authorising the action and that we actually had found millions of tons of WMD in Iraq, but had forgotten about it…

[Ryan_Liam]

I wish the Telegraph would get as excited about Howard’s vicious racism, and Blair’s lies which led us into an illegal war just so the little dickwad could cosy up to the retarded GW Bush.

Another reason why I don’t think Charles Kennedy should ever get near Downing Street.