Slumber Party


I had to laugh at Rod Liddle's comment piece in the Sunday Times - he right to point out the hypocrisy on the Labour benches over Rupert Murdoch and News International.

The Labour leadership only stopped sucking up to the media mogul - after his stable of papers announced they would not be supporting the Labour party - in the 2010 general election.

Up till then Labour ministers including Gordon Brown the Prime Minister - were more than happy to have a close relationship with the Murdoch family - and not just the professional kind.

As we know now the wife of Gordon Brown - Sarah - invited the wife of Rupert Murdoch - Wendi - to a slumber party at the Prime Minister's weekend retreat, Chequers.  

Now I've never been invited to a slumber party - but I imagine that not just anyone gets to go along with their pyjamas and teddy bear.           

Did Mandy take the whip?

I’ll bet any money that Mandelson’s been on that horse too, you know. I mean the one the Met lent to Rebekah Brooks and which, I would guess, she now wishes she’d eaten in a bap. If there’s an influential horse near the centre of power, Mandelson’s bound to have had a go on it.

We now know the prime minister had a ride on it but Boris Johnson didn’t. Brooks probably feared the London mayor would make a pass at it. The Labour MP Chris Bryant, who recently took over the Most Hugely Irritating Person in the House of Commons sinecure, says “horsegate” shows Cameron was “too closely entwined” with News International.

You mean unlike new Labour, Bryant, you drongo?

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