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oldironside Donating Member (835 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 01:04 AM
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MPs backed down from calling Rebekah Brooks to Commons
"Cross-party committee allegedly abandoned plans to force News International chief to testify after being warned their lives would be investigated"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/10/mps-backed-down-rebekah-brooks

So, who runs the UK?



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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 04:53 AM
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1. Someone isn't doing their job.
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oldironside Donating Member (835 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 06:49 AM
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2. Because they're frightened...
... of appearing in a headline in the News of the World with the words Miss Whiplash.

Why can't they just be honest about sex? I mean, if a male MP said, "I've just paid out of my own pocket to have a large leather clad Eastern European woman tie me up and beat the shit out of me" would we think any less of him?
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 07:04 AM
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3. Hey, if it's good enough for Don Draper ....
:evilgrin:

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