Oops. David Cameron, Rebekah Brooks and the horse done bolt the story

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/02/david-cameron-rebekah-brooks-police-horse
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David Cameron's efforts to edge away from Rebekah Brooks, the fallen News International executive, came unstuck on Friday when he was forced after three days of non-denial denials to admit that he had ridden on a horse loaned to her by the Metropolitan police as a personal favour.

Cameron, who cultivates an image of middle class normality, will be horrified at the way the episode links him to a lethal cocktail of urban journalistic cynicism, patrician country pursuits, police corruption and Downing Street evasion.

For three days the prime minister's spokesman had displayed ignorance, boredom and displeasure at requests to know whether Cameron had ever ridden Raisa, the former Met police horse loaned to Brooks between 2008 and 2010.

But by late on Thursday night, Cameron's memory was refocusing. One of the prime minister's aides said: "It is highly possible that he was on that horse. It is likely that he rode that horse."

Cameron said: "Let me shed some light on it. I have known Charlie Brooks, the husband of Rebekah Brooks for over 30 years, and he is a good friend. He is a neighbour in the constituency, we live a few miles apart. I have not been riding with him since the election.
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time!!

[MichaelMcGuire]

1. A picture says a thousand words

[malaise]

2. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah hahaha- perfect

[midnight]

3. This sounds like the beginning of the end for this leader...

"David Cameron pledges to continue radical programme despite losing aide
Prime minister tries to rally party after Steve Hilton quits Downing Street, causing nervousness in Tory ranks"

David Cameron has vowed to press on with controversial health reforms, insisting he will continue to champion radical and sometimes unpopular policies after the departure of his right-hand man, Steve Hilton.

However, in a sign of irritation with Andrew Lansley's failure to make the case for change in the NHS, the prime minister pointedly neglected to mention the health secretary by name in an address to party supporters.


"We won't get there by playing safe," he said. "To be strong and fair we've got to be tough and bold."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/03/david-cameron-radical-programme-aide?intcmp=239

[malaise]

4. I'd say yes if there were no London Olympics coming up

He won't crash and burn until after the Olympics but between those reforms and his lies his government will sink him.

[Pab Sungenis]

5. It only takes one person turning against Cameron to bring him down.

That person is Nick Clegg.

And he won't do it because he knows the minute this coalition is over the LibDems will never even come near power ever again.

[malaise]

6. And Clegg is the man who destroyed the LibDems

he sold out for the old school tie and political power