His statement in the commons was an exercise in crowing, because Leveson failed to condone Jeremy Hunt and his dealings with News International. It has to be said that Politicians and the police got off incredibly lightly in the report, when you consider their was a triumvirate of self interest and criminal complicity between parts of the press, police and politicians, which lead to innocent people being victimised, abused, arrested, their privacy invaded, and nothing but lies and filth being printed about them.
Now to add insult to injury, the craven Cameron has thrown the victims of the press under the bus, purely for political expediency and personal gain. At least Milliband and Clegg, knowing full well the press will heap a bucket of crap over them at every opportunity,had the guts, and were brave enough to stand up in the house of commons and support the report.
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Now we are in a situation where any excesses, corruption or wrongdoing by the press and by any politicians, police or anyone the press considers to be their supporters will be suppressed, so as not to prove that things have not changed and the press will carry on as normal.
By refusing to implement the Leveson proposals we will end up with more corruption by police, more abuses of power by press barons and journalists and the politicians considered friendly to the press will get an easy ride and be allowed to get away with blue murder, whether it be expense fiddling, mortgage flipping (Osborne!), abuse of their position or lying to the public.
We will end up with the exact opposite of free speech, because people with power, money and influence will be able to say and do as they please with impunity, whereas poorer people, when slandered and liabled by the press, will be denied access to justice, because they cannot afford it. Allowing the press to continue to print what they like.Welcome to the country of haves and have nots. The wealth gap continues to widen.
All Leveson has proposed is that the press set up a fully independent complaints commission, that is free of conflicts of interests, and makes the press accountable for their actions, just like lawyers, electricians, television companies and doctors. That is what the majority of the general public wants. The public does not trust the press.
What we have is a craven and coward Prime Minister, who is in the pockets of the press barons, and because of political expediency and self interests, has betrayed the innocent victims of the press, as well as the British Public, leading to nothing changing. Innocent people will continue to be accused of crimes they didn't commit, parents will continue to be accused of murdering and hiding the body of their abducted daughter in a freezer and then have the private diary of the grieving mother printed for all to read, and grieving parents of a murdered schoolgirl will have their privacy invaded and blown apart and their grief intensified, because scum like the coward Cameron wants more votes and the gutter press wants to sell more rags.
Shame on you all!
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