Murdoch: Ouf! Is this meltdown?

[french frank]

Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks arrested and now the Met Commissioner resigns ...

Blige! (As we used to say in our village)

[mangerton]

Could we organise a sweep to see who'll be next?

[Mahlerei]

Falling like ninepins. Fascinating stuff. I think the Commons committee should shelve its hearings until the investigation has run its course. Either those summoned are likely to have been arrested come Tuesday or they'll do an Ollie North and keep schtum. Good theatre but not much else.

[Mandryka]

There has been a deafening silence from Cameron over the weekend.

Hague piped up yesterday to defend his relationship with Coulson.

Am I the only person who feels that Stephenson's resignation makes Cameron's position untenable?

[Anna]

As I said before, Brooks being arrested by appointment on a Sunday, cannot appear before tribunal on Tuesday, ditto Stephenson ....... so, nice and cosy, all in remand and cannot talk. Moi? Cynical?

[Frances_iom]

Augean stables ? - the diversion of two rivers to wash away 30 years accumulation of dung - though the originator of the scheme was not given his promised reward - 30 years of dung from the Murdoch stables seems to require a few days longer to wash away.

[Chris Newman]

As I said before, Brooks being arrested by appointment on a Sunday, cannot appear before tribunal on Tuesday, ditto Stephenson ....... so, nice and cosy, all in remand and cannot talk. Moi? Cynical?

My thoughts also when I heard the news at about 1 today.

[french frank]

My thoughts also when I heard the news at about 1 today.

The Labour people are being a bit cautious. I think there's a possibility that the police are trying to protect their case. With the eyes of the nation on the committee enquiry, they don't want anyone claiming she won't get a fair trial - should she be charged.

[MrGongGong]

So being responsible for dodgy dealings with the press is worthy of resignation (quite rightly IMV)
and being responsible for your officers murdering an innocent man on the tube gets you promotion ?

lets hope some sticks to Cameron

[johnb]

An interesting theory being propounded on Radio 4 10pm news: that the reason Paul Stephenson gave for his resignation might not be the whole truth and that there is a big question for Paul Stephenson to answer. It was Stephenson, it seems, who set the ridiculously short time-scale of a few hours for John Yates to decide whether or not to re-open the hacking investigation. This put John Yates in an extremely difficult situation and meant there was only one answer that he could give.

(I wondered something along the same lines in the earlier thread, which is now closed.)