Cardiffdaffs
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Utterly depressing all round all this. A massively hypocritical “newspaper” bent on destroying the BBC and at the same time diverting attention from the real issues this country has.
It appears The Sun’s claims
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The Sun is owned by News Corp, a public company.
How do you explain to its shareholders that they should lose money for a political ideology?
Just because the Sun is a loss maker, doesn't mean newscorp is ... I think most people with any serious investment or control of the Sun consider it a small price worth paying for furthering their agenda.
1finny
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Just reading that they appear to be changing their stance on this story.
They are going to be claiming this was only ever about protecting a young man from drug abuse being funded by a BBC star.
Funny that their original front page was all about 'sordid images' being traded - that's quite a subtle reference for their concern for a young man on drugs.
This whole thing is starting to seem more and more like Murdoch dropping a mega faux outrage bomb with the intent on trying to do as much damage to the BBC as it can whilst at the same time distracting us from lots of things we should be talking about. At this stage it really wouldn't surprise me if half of the memes being circulated were created in a back room of the sun offices.
spanishman
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I am sure that Johnson's phone, illegal laws and various other things will be masked by this story. A good time to bury bad news.
TeaCider
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So the sum of it is that Huw Edwards spoke to some people on dating apps, and paid for photos.
Nothing illegal.
The worst of it seems to be that he's arguably been unfaithful to his wife.
Glad that's dominated the news cycle for 5 days, when far more important things are happening in the world.
Nothing illegal.
The worst of it seems to be that he's arguably been unfaithful to his wife.
Glad that's dominated the news cycle for 5 days, when far more important things are happening in the world.
Fattyfoggon
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also reporting he is in hospital "suffering from serious mental health issues" I have no idea what has gone on but feel for him and his family after been hounded by the Sun and Co
Quicksilvera
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I hope Huw gets the help he needs, the last thing we need is the media baying for blood.
Foggysfplandiet3
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You mean like so many people on this forum were baying for Leon Brittan’s blood when Tom Watson and Carl Beech made claims about him that turned out to be untrue?
This board hasn’t changed one bit, it’s as two faced and as hypocritical as ever. Cheerio.
This board hasn’t changed one bit, it’s as two faced and as hypocritical as ever. Cheerio.
atypical_boro
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This is true, though the moralistic debate about the £35k for crack cocaine stuff will continue to swill around.
What I don't get is why he put his face in these photos? Imagine how easy it would be to deny it was him if he hadn't, the mother would never have known either. Strange decision.
Anyway, hope we don't have another Flack situation.
WeeGord
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I'm not defending anything to do with Leon Brittan, but the allegations against him were far, far more sinister and there was also famously a lost dossier in which there was supposedly many allegations and potentially evidence.
TeaCider
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What's the debate?
He's not the one who was allegedly buying crack cocaine.
There's no indication, that I've seen, that he was even aware that the person was allegedly using the money for drugs.
Quicksilvera
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Not sure if this was aimed at me but I find this place to be one of the most level headed forums on the internet.