Comments on: Coulson-gate, day 2: Lib Dems refer NotW phone-tapping case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission http://www.libdemvoice.org/coulsongate-day-2-lib-dems-refer-notw-phonetapping-case-to-the-independent-police-complaints-commission-15612.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Niklas Smith http://www.libdemvoice.org/coulsongate-day-2-lib-dems-refer-notw-phonetapping-case-to-the-independent-police-complaints-commission-15612.html#comment-94437 Niklas Smith Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:08:57 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15612#comment-94437 Re. Mr Redfellow: It's even made it into the Swedish newspapers! Re. Stephen: <i>After yesterday’s rather rushed attempts by Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates to try and kill the story (’move along, folks, nothing to see here’ – I paraphrase, but only just)</i> Yates' performance irresistably reminds me of <a href="http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/LSE2277" title="The man with sealed lips" rel="nofollow">David Low's cartoon</a> of Stanley Baldwin with sealed lips. "If my lips were unsealed I am sure I could convince you that all is O.K." Quite. Re. Mr Redfellow: It’s even made it into the Swedish newspapers!

Re. Stephen: After yesterday’s rather rushed attempts by Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates to try and kill the story (’move along, folks, nothing to see here’ – I paraphrase, but only just)

Yates’ performance irresistably reminds me of David Low’s cartoon of Stanley Baldwin with sealed lips. “If my lips were unsealed I am sure I could convince you that all is O.K.” Quite.

]]> By: Malcolm Redfellow http://www.libdemvoice.org/coulsongate-day-2-lib-dems-refer-notw-phonetapping-case-to-the-independent-police-complaints-commission-15612.html#comment-94434 Malcolm Redfellow Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:29:34 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15612#comment-94434 Huhne's letter to the IPCC is succinct, and covers a fair bit of the ground. It deserves better coverage than it will get. For all of the local attempts to contain and smother this story, it's the only bit of UK news making it in the NY Times or the WaPo. That says something about its significance. Huhne’s letter to the IPCC is succinct, and covers a fair bit of the ground.

It deserves better coverage than it will get.

For all of the local attempts to contain and smother this story, it’s the only bit of UK news making it in the NY Times or the WaPo. That says something about its significance.

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