(Sorry, it's the only YAY animation I have to hand :p)
Excellent news, nay? I'm too lazy to write a long-winded response to this news and I made a video just to prove own lazy I am about it. However it is good that at least David Cameron has finally got Murdoch to pull his BSkyB takeover... after Ed Miliband forced him to push Murdoch onto the sword. Hell, apparently even Nick Clegg has decided at the last minute to grow a pair, even going as far as to threaten to split the coalition should the BSkyB takeover bid not be blocked.
David Cameron can't even get back on track now because he has to face the frankly humiliating fact that it was the opposition, not the government, who forced the issue of blocking the BSkyB takeover. Not to mention his terrible judgement in appointing Andy Coulson as his press officer. Cameron's answer was to get Jeremy Hunt to write a letter to Ofcom. Ed Miliband's, the most unlikely heavyweight in this whole story, answer forced a vote in parliament for the bid to be blocked. Furthermore all of Labour, all the LibDems and a good portion of the Tories agreed with him!
I suppose it was easier for Ed Miliband to jab knives into Murdoch because he has never had to deal with him. The last time the Labour Party were well and truly connected to Murdoch was back in Tony Blair's era. Gordon Brown met with Rebekah Brooks but everyone knows that he was not friend of the tabloids and was not prepared to pander to them. What has been revealed now about their - what can only be described as - revenge for his choice not to arse-lick like Blair had, was to hack his phones and steal his son's PRIVATE health records. Now, I don't care what you say, that's illegal.
Cameron is too close to Murdoch and, unlike Blair or Thatcher, IS (or WAS) completely reliant on his support, which ultimately failed to win him a majority in parliament. Had Murdoch not chosen to back Cameron, Labour would probably have won the last election without having to form a coalition with anyone. They'd have lost a chunk of their majority... but they'd have still had a majority. Even with Murdoch's aid and Ashcroft's money, everyone knew even before the election that David Cameron wasn't going to win the election. Most people were hoping for a coalition between Labour and the LibDems.
Not surprising when all the LibDem voters are apparently saying they'd vote Labour now. I dread to think what would happen if there was an election tomorrow. Cameron would lose a chunk of the larger minority he'd have, a good chunk of the LibDems would vote Labour... but we still wouldn't have a majority government (although I suspect Labour would probably have the largest minority). It really is a good argument for proportional representation.
But there won't be an election called for at least another year. Even if the LibDems do pull out - as I suspect they will soon - Cameron will still struggle on with a minority for another year before he'd give up. If in that time then Murdoch sells off his papers and flees, it'll be interesting to see how the election would run without cringy front pages like this which makes you ashamed to be British:
Incidently I found this image by typing "cringe sun front cover" into Google.
