How Sez Sees It

I was going to do this blog about the committees meeting today, but I think that things have changed somewhat and so I am going to do things a little differently now. I want to start by getting the events of the pie/shaving foam attack out of the way.  I am hardly Rupert Murdoch's biggest fan, but the man was there to answer questions to a serious parliamentary commission and on top of that is a man in his 80s.  He does not deserve to be hit in the face with shaving foam or whatever it was, by some dick who thinks it is big and clever.  In fact this could have been detrimental.  As US citizen's Rupert and James Murdoch did not have to even be there and could have refused to come back after the interval.  On top of that people will have some sort of respect for both of the Murdochs for coming back.  I want to state that no matter what I say today in this blog I could never condone the behaviour of the man that did that act. Ok, on to the other stuff. ...

Just a quick update.  The Assistant Commissioner to the Met, John Yates, has resigned over his failings as part of the Hackgate scandal.  It is currently unclear whether he was pushed politically or this is a case of him going of his own free will, however, he is going to be held accountable for his actions either way and that can only be a good thing.  The big question will be over how many more people will have to jump ship.  This is the most exciting thing to happen for a long time. The reason it is so exciting I think is that it encompasses many areas of life.  Politicians, police officers and media moguls have all been drawn into this issue and it is so widespread that it makes for exciting reading and times.  People we are supposed to be able to trust have come under the spotlight as bad boys and girls and this is something that people want to read and hear about.  I for one am guiltlessly engrossed.

Today Rebekah Brooks has been arrested.  This is a good thing as if it is proved that she was responsible for allowing and enabling the hacking by News International papers then she does need to be held to account. There is one issue that is not really an issue though.  Thoughts being bandied around at the moment suggest that she was pre-warned by the police that she was going to be arrested and this gave her a chance to resign.  I am not so sure about that.  It was a pre-arranged arrest so it is hard to tell what she knew. As far as I can see the only problem is that over the next week she is due to stand before the select committee and this may effect two things.  The first is that she may not be able to appear now as she has to give information to the police over the committee.  If she does appear then the second problem is that she may be restricted over what she can say to the committee because anything she says could go for or against her in the p...