@McTag,
Quote:Yes, don't confuse Justice Leveson's Inquiry (yet to report) with the earlier parliamentary sub-committee statements (bunch of amateurs), George.
That is only the simple side of George's confusions Mac.
The Committee, which is by no means composed of amateurs, heard the evidence and it was pretty damning for the Dirty Digger.
So-- in order the reduce the embarrassment to a guy who might have in the safe all sorts of stuff the private detectives had turned up, the deal was that a conclusion was reached which was extreme enough to justify the conservatives on the Committee dissenting and thus demonstrate that the vote was on party lines and, as such, not as strong a condemnation as might have been the case with a unanimous Committee coming to a slightly less dramatic conclusion.
What is emerging is that this lady using the known influence of the pre-Raphealite image of the feminine to render ex-public schoolboys into juddering mode can be traced back to the Sex Discrimination Act of the mid-70s introduced by a well known innocent at large; Michael Foot.
She did refer to "in the countryside" and at Party Conferences as venues where she had met the Prime Minister a handful of times.
Did you notice that the ceremony of lighting the Olympic torch from the rays of the sun was suggestive of how the priestesses of the Eleusinian Mysteries might well have comported themselves in the introductory rituals of that religion when greeting the applicant novices seeking initiation after their barefoot traipse from Athens?
