Bully for you
Andy Coulson presided over a culture of bullying when he was News of the World editor, an employment tribunal has found today in upholding a claim of unfair dismissal against the paper.
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[Senior sports writer Matt] Driscoll was sacked in April 2007 while on long-term sick leave for stress-related depression, which the tribunal found had arisen directly as a result of bullying behaviour led by Coulson, who was News of the World editor for four years from 2003.
Where would a scumbag such as Coulson turn next for employment? Who would touch such an unpleasant shit, even with a twenty foot poll?
Coulson was appointed Conservative party director of communications in May last year.
Oh.
Posted on December 19th, 2008 at 8:09am under Tories
Maybe like attracts like:
“One financial journalist who worked closely with [Cameron], Ian King, echoes the consensus among hacks who knew him: “He was a smarmy bully who loved humiliating people, including a colleague at ITV, who he would abuse publicly as ‘Bunter’ just because the poor bloke was a few pounds overweight … He was a poisonous, slippery individual.”"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-camerons-sweet-mood-music-is-crafted-to-distract-us-from-his-real-political-beliefs-418601.html
it’s incredible isn’t it. It was when I heard about that that I realised that no matter how bad Labour get, and no matter how well the Convervatives learn to make nice noises, they’ll never get my vote. Never mind that Coulson is a renown shit, even if he was a delightful individual, hiring the bloody news of the world editor speaks volumes about their attitude to the truth.
Interesting juxtaposition of blogposts. One shows the Tories hiring a bully, an all-round shit and “poisonous, slippery individual”, thereby making themselves, seemingly, unworthy of our votes.
The other is about our renowned prime minister and leader of the Labour party who is, to put it bluntly, a murderous, lying war criminal but who will, nevertheless, be able to rely on plenty of votes from faithful labour supporters.
Problem is, Mike, that once you start addressing the Tories’ support for the invasion of Iraq, let alone their policies, you end up faced with a choice between the bad and the worse.
Vote None of the Above, Mike.
I agree with you both.
I’m certainly not planning to vote Tory but I do wonder just how many left-leaning bloggers will still end up voting Labour because the Tories are full of Old Etonians or because they hire people like Coulson and will conveniently ignore the enormity of what Blair and Brown have done over the last decade.
Sorry about the mangled syntax there but you know what i mean
Yes – but anyone wrestling with that dilemma would have had one go in 2005, plus any local elections between 2003 and the present. I suspect the number who feel they can’t keep endorsing New Labour with a vote for a candidate (no matter what their stance on Iraq, let alone anything else) is growing.
I number myself among them, having voted Labour in 2005 on the self-justificatory grounds that my Labour MP had abstained on the war and voted against the worst parts of the anti-terrorist legislation. Never again.
Some people regard this as a pedantic point, some as a constitutional one, but as it happens the only votes Brown can rely on will be cast by people voting in the constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Labour voters in other constituencies will be voting for other candidates.
(My vote, by the way, a postal one, would be in Dulwich and West Norwood. I shall not be employing it.)
ejh
Too be equally ‘pedantic’:
It’s true that Brown will be relying on his local constituents to return him as an MP.
But he will be relying on voters in a great many more constituencies if he’s looking to be returned as prime minister.
Simple as…
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Editor of News of the Screws appointed as Tory director of COMMUNICATIONS?? Wha??
The trouble is, I reckon 9 out of 10 labour supporters would vote labour if they put up a monkey as a candidate.
Surely the past 11 years should show the decent staunch labour voter that they have been s**t on as much as everyone else – except, that is, criminals, state spongers and anyone without a British passport.
Just for the one act of stopping the dividend rebate on Pensions as soon as he got into power in 1997, no one should ever vote for him again. He singlehandedly reduced the pensions of millions of the very workers who slavishly vote Labour.
Hey, the tories are no angels but Labour have taken sleaze and even criminality to a new high (low?).
The real person to blame for much of this is that great Labour supporter, sometime Labour MP and all round crook, Ján Ludvík Hoch aka Robert Maxwell, who’s wholesale theft of pension funds lead to John Major introducing ill-thought through legislation which ultimately led, amongst other things, to most private companies shutting down their schemes.
I reckon 9 out of 10 labour supporters would vote labour if they put up a monkey as a candidate.
As more than ne in ten Labour voters has in fact stopped boting Labour, this claim is necessarily wrong.
The dividend rebate was offset by a directly matching cut in corporation tax. It had no impact at all on the value of pensions; to say that it did is a ridiculous, ignorant Tory talking point.
Pensions are fucked, in the short term because of the stock market’s disastrous performance, but in the long term because people now live to 80 on average instead of 65. Anyone who blames politicians for that, rather than demography, is a stupid hack who should be pushed off a cliff.
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