Sabrina
3rd June 2013, 07:21
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334483/No-10-rocked-secret-love-affair-Stunned-PM-holds-crisis-talks-fears-tryst-blow-political-agenda-water.html#ixzz2V2I8CJem
So said a teasing article in the UK's Mail on Sunday yesterday. So what's it all about? Is it newspaper owners targeting Cameron after looking to set up an independent press regulator after the Leveson enquiry? (The Sunday Times, Telegraph and BBC have mounted a sting operation with members of the House of Lords on cash for lobbying recently). It's the Bilderberg meeting in the UK week. Any or no connection? Grand distraction or plan to hole Cameron? Samantha and Boris or News International's Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are doing the rounds online (and their trial is coming up - could this speculation mess it up?)...Rebekah is a neighbour and mate of Cameron's. Boris is an outside favourite to be next PM. And is Samantha Cameron's handler anyway? Or is it someone else. Answers on a postcard please.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/02/sex-scandal-engulfs-10-downing-st-as-feral-press-bites-back.html
Sex Scandal Engulfs 10 Downing St. As Feral Press Bites Back
by Peter Jukes Jun 2, 2013 5:50 PM EDT
Accusations of sleaze have mounted since Cameron approved an independent press regulator in response to the Rupert Murdoch hacking scandal. Peter Jukes reports.
Allegations of a secret, now-concluded “affair” that reportedly left Prime Minister David Cameron “stunned” and threatened to derail the government’s agenda were published by the Mail on Sunday. “This revelation is dynamite. None of us could believe it when we first heard it. Then we just thought, “What a complete mess”,” a source told the Mail. “Such disclosure could ‘blow out of the water’ any major political set pieces planned by No 10” according to the newspaper. Citing “legal reasons,” the paper describes the affair’s participants only as “middle-aged figures” whose relationship has now concluded.A Downing Street spokesman denied any “crisis talks” but not the rumour itself. Coming on the heels of the resignation of Conservative MP Patrick Mercer last week following a cash-for-questions investigation by The Telegraph and the BBC’s Panorama, and the arrest of Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans last month over allegations of sexual assault, Cameron’s administration has been beset by mounting accusations of sleaze.
Ever since Cameron approved earlier this year the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson to set up an independent press regulator under a Royal Charter, he’s suffered a torrid time at the hands of Britain’s famously feral press.
The Leveson Inquiry into press ethics was set up after the hacking scandal engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News International and led to the resignation of senior executives, and the arrest of nearly a hundred News International journalists and their informants. The high profile trials of senior executives, including Cameron’s neighbour and friend Rebekah Brooks and his former press supremo, Andy Coulson, are due to begin in September, and are the focus of intense pre-trial hearings.
Last year Cameron’s coalition experienced a series of crises, mainly due to Britain’s sluggish economy and mishandling of government policy. But his close circle was also the target of a number of investigative stings. The Sunday Times produced an undercover scoop claiming a Tory party chairman offered access to senior ministers in return for party donations—a claim which is disputed and now subject to legal action. Meanwhile the daily tabloid Sun claimed that his chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, had called police officers guarding Number Ten “plebs”. Mitchell resigned his post, but that allegation is hotly disputed, and is currently the subject to a police investigation. A source close to the scandals last year told the Daily Beast that senior newspaper editors had been given a blank cheque by proprietors to target Cameron and his circle since the Leveson Inquiry and hacking scandal broke.
In the light of forthcoming trials and royal charter legislation, the timing of the new media-fuelled rumours appears highly suspicious. Not only do they destabilize Cameron at a difficult time when he’s low in the polls, and his right flank is threatened by Tory rebels and the rise of Nigel Farage’s UK Independence party, but legally questionable revelations could undermine forthcoming court cases by publishing material which has not yet been called in evidence, and lead to trials being abandoned for technical reasons.
It looks like a high-stakes game of chess is being played at the highest levels of media and politics, but mainly behind the scenes. Once again, the British press looks less like it’s holding politicians to account, and more like it’s holding them hostage .
Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long.
Peter Jukes is an author based in London. His second nonfiction book, Fall of the House of Murdoch, which puts the current scandal against the half-century rise of News Corp., was published by Unbound earlier this year.
For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com.
.and
http://cryptome.org/2013/05/acrb.htm
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks Affair
A sends:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334483/No-10-rocked-secret-love-
affair-Stunned-PM-holds-crisis-talks-fears-tryst-blow-political-agenda-water.html
David Cameron has held crisis talks at Downing Street after being told of allegations of a sensational love affair which has potentially significant political implications for him.
For legal reasons, The Mail on Sunday cannot disclose the identities of the people involved or any details of the relationship – even its duration – other than that they are middle-aged figures. The affair has now concluded.
But this newspaper can report that when aides told Mr Cameron the identities of the alleged lovers he was ‘stunned’, and, according to sources, ‘immediately realised the importance of the story’.
The Prime Minister and his aides also discussed the possible fallout should details of the affair become public – and how such disclosure could ‘blow out of the water’ any major political set pieces planned by No 10.
One senior source told this newspaper last night: ‘This revelation is dynamite. None of us could believe it when we first heard it. Then we just thought, “What a complete mess”.’
_____
No names, but infamous blogger "Guido Fawkes" (Paul Staines) just couldn't resist planting a clue:
http://order-order.com/2013/06/01/sunday-sleaze-special-2/
which includes a graphic of the Mail on Sunday front page splash
http://orderorder.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/acrb.png
Image name "ACRB" = Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks
and
http://www.aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/secret-love-affair.html
According to the Daily Mail:
The UK's Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, has been rocked by a secret love affair.
1. The lovers are "middle-aged figures."
2. The affair "has potentially significant political implications for Cameron".
3. The affair "does not involve anyone serving in the Cabinet."
In 2002, it was revealed that former Conservative Prime Minister John Major had had an affair with a Jewish mistress, Edwina Currie.
Recently, Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, a Conservative MP, was arrested following allegations that he raped a young man.
David Cameron comes from a distinguished family and should be able to cope with any crisis.
David Cameron's wife is Samantha.
Samantha's stepfather is Viscount Astor.
David Cameron's mother, Mary Fleur Mount, is the second daughter of Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield is David Cameron's father-in-law.
He can trace his bloodline back to the Knights Templar.
David Cameron's chief rival is said to be London Mayor Boris Johnson (left)
David Cameron's great-great grandfather Sir Ewen Cameron helped the Rothschilds sell war bonds during the Russo-Japanese war.
So said a teasing article in the UK's Mail on Sunday yesterday. So what's it all about? Is it newspaper owners targeting Cameron after looking to set up an independent press regulator after the Leveson enquiry? (The Sunday Times, Telegraph and BBC have mounted a sting operation with members of the House of Lords on cash for lobbying recently). It's the Bilderberg meeting in the UK week. Any or no connection? Grand distraction or plan to hole Cameron? Samantha and Boris or News International's Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are doing the rounds online (and their trial is coming up - could this speculation mess it up?)...Rebekah is a neighbour and mate of Cameron's. Boris is an outside favourite to be next PM. And is Samantha Cameron's handler anyway? Or is it someone else. Answers on a postcard please.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/02/sex-scandal-engulfs-10-downing-st-as-feral-press-bites-back.html
Sex Scandal Engulfs 10 Downing St. As Feral Press Bites Back
by Peter Jukes Jun 2, 2013 5:50 PM EDT
Accusations of sleaze have mounted since Cameron approved an independent press regulator in response to the Rupert Murdoch hacking scandal. Peter Jukes reports.
Allegations of a secret, now-concluded “affair” that reportedly left Prime Minister David Cameron “stunned” and threatened to derail the government’s agenda were published by the Mail on Sunday. “This revelation is dynamite. None of us could believe it when we first heard it. Then we just thought, “What a complete mess”,” a source told the Mail. “Such disclosure could ‘blow out of the water’ any major political set pieces planned by No 10” according to the newspaper. Citing “legal reasons,” the paper describes the affair’s participants only as “middle-aged figures” whose relationship has now concluded.A Downing Street spokesman denied any “crisis talks” but not the rumour itself. Coming on the heels of the resignation of Conservative MP Patrick Mercer last week following a cash-for-questions investigation by The Telegraph and the BBC’s Panorama, and the arrest of Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans last month over allegations of sexual assault, Cameron’s administration has been beset by mounting accusations of sleaze.
Ever since Cameron approved earlier this year the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson to set up an independent press regulator under a Royal Charter, he’s suffered a torrid time at the hands of Britain’s famously feral press.
The Leveson Inquiry into press ethics was set up after the hacking scandal engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News International and led to the resignation of senior executives, and the arrest of nearly a hundred News International journalists and their informants. The high profile trials of senior executives, including Cameron’s neighbour and friend Rebekah Brooks and his former press supremo, Andy Coulson, are due to begin in September, and are the focus of intense pre-trial hearings.
Last year Cameron’s coalition experienced a series of crises, mainly due to Britain’s sluggish economy and mishandling of government policy. But his close circle was also the target of a number of investigative stings. The Sunday Times produced an undercover scoop claiming a Tory party chairman offered access to senior ministers in return for party donations—a claim which is disputed and now subject to legal action. Meanwhile the daily tabloid Sun claimed that his chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, had called police officers guarding Number Ten “plebs”. Mitchell resigned his post, but that allegation is hotly disputed, and is currently the subject to a police investigation. A source close to the scandals last year told the Daily Beast that senior newspaper editors had been given a blank cheque by proprietors to target Cameron and his circle since the Leveson Inquiry and hacking scandal broke.
In the light of forthcoming trials and royal charter legislation, the timing of the new media-fuelled rumours appears highly suspicious. Not only do they destabilize Cameron at a difficult time when he’s low in the polls, and his right flank is threatened by Tory rebels and the rise of Nigel Farage’s UK Independence party, but legally questionable revelations could undermine forthcoming court cases by publishing material which has not yet been called in evidence, and lead to trials being abandoned for technical reasons.
It looks like a high-stakes game of chess is being played at the highest levels of media and politics, but mainly behind the scenes. Once again, the British press looks less like it’s holding politicians to account, and more like it’s holding them hostage .
Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long.
Peter Jukes is an author based in London. His second nonfiction book, Fall of the House of Murdoch, which puts the current scandal against the half-century rise of News Corp., was published by Unbound earlier this year.
For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com.
.and
http://cryptome.org/2013/05/acrb.htm
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks Affair
A sends:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334483/No-10-rocked-secret-love-
affair-Stunned-PM-holds-crisis-talks-fears-tryst-blow-political-agenda-water.html
David Cameron has held crisis talks at Downing Street after being told of allegations of a sensational love affair which has potentially significant political implications for him.
For legal reasons, The Mail on Sunday cannot disclose the identities of the people involved or any details of the relationship – even its duration – other than that they are middle-aged figures. The affair has now concluded.
But this newspaper can report that when aides told Mr Cameron the identities of the alleged lovers he was ‘stunned’, and, according to sources, ‘immediately realised the importance of the story’.
The Prime Minister and his aides also discussed the possible fallout should details of the affair become public – and how such disclosure could ‘blow out of the water’ any major political set pieces planned by No 10.
One senior source told this newspaper last night: ‘This revelation is dynamite. None of us could believe it when we first heard it. Then we just thought, “What a complete mess”.’
_____
No names, but infamous blogger "Guido Fawkes" (Paul Staines) just couldn't resist planting a clue:
http://order-order.com/2013/06/01/sunday-sleaze-special-2/
which includes a graphic of the Mail on Sunday front page splash
http://orderorder.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/acrb.png
Image name "ACRB" = Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks
and
http://www.aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/secret-love-affair.html
According to the Daily Mail:
The UK's Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, has been rocked by a secret love affair.
1. The lovers are "middle-aged figures."
2. The affair "has potentially significant political implications for Cameron".
3. The affair "does not involve anyone serving in the Cabinet."
In 2002, it was revealed that former Conservative Prime Minister John Major had had an affair with a Jewish mistress, Edwina Currie.
Recently, Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, a Conservative MP, was arrested following allegations that he raped a young man.
David Cameron comes from a distinguished family and should be able to cope with any crisis.
David Cameron's wife is Samantha.
Samantha's stepfather is Viscount Astor.
David Cameron's mother, Mary Fleur Mount, is the second daughter of Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield is David Cameron's father-in-law.
He can trace his bloodline back to the Knights Templar.
David Cameron's chief rival is said to be London Mayor Boris Johnson (left)
David Cameron's great-great grandfather Sir Ewen Cameron helped the Rothschilds sell war bonds during the Russo-Japanese war.