Phone Hacking or Gagging the News? Kinnock Gives the Game Away!

What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! Most probably you can't believe the amount of news coverage and time parliament has given to the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Well an MEP suggested a little while ago that it may be a smoke screen for something else, and it seems that may be true.  Whilst phone hacking is truly shameful and should be dealt with properly, lets get things into scale.  The world is in financial meltdown because the Euro countries such as Greece are near to defaulting on their debts, bringing the world's economy crashing down, which will throw the UK as well as other nations, including America into the deepest recession ever. (it's not only the banks who lend the money in the first place who will lose billions, debts are sold on and then other institutions insure them, that's why countries like America are involved too). So what does David Cameron come back home early from Africa to debate on, yes you guessed it, the phone hacking scandal.  Media such as the BBC continually appear to censor any news about how deeply we are governed by the EU and only give very limited time to mentioning how badly the Eurozone is doing.  It would seem now that the government wants to do the same sort of censorship with the national press.  How is hiding bad news the way to go? do they think people won't notice when they can no longer afford to buy food or heat their homes because everything is sky high?  Maybe the government think a knight in shining armour is going to come along and save the Euro from the nasty dragon, little hope.  Like EU President Barroso said, there is no Plan B if the bailouts don't work.

Now Neil Kinnock has famously let the cat out of the bag by telling how the government would like to censor the press, he announced on the Today program that "the Press should be bound by the same rules of impartiality as the BBC."  Only this week the BBC announced that they would give global warming sceptics even less air time than they do now (I don't know how you can add  even 'less air time' to the 'no air time' they already gave them, but there you go!).

So looking at the whole picture and the overkill in respect of Mr Murdoch and the News of the World phone hacking, which should just have been dealt with by the police, it looks as if this is a plan to censor our wonderful free press.  What next? a total shut down of the internet? is democracy finally dead and buried?