Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned.

[dipsydoodle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14180043

[oldironside]

1. Typical comment.

"I didn't do anything wrong, but I'm going to resign anyway."

Assume for the sake of argument instead of 12 grand's worth of spa treatment, he'd got 12 grand in used fivers in a brown envelope. Same thing to my mind.

[non sociopath skin]

2. Boris's man, yes?

The Skin

[fedsron2us]

7. Johnson was definitely struggling to stay afloat at his press conference today

but at least he was here to answer questions unlike Cameron who has decided to disappear abroad for the duration. To be fair to Boris the original hacking court case in 2006 happened under his predecessor Ken Livingston who did not seem any keener to dig into the allegations about improper relationships between NI and the Met than the current regime. No one seems to have queried whether it was appropriate for Andy Hayman to go straight from investigating the Royal hacking case for the Met to going to work for NI

[tjwmason]

3. Now Assistant Commissioner John Yates too

Turning into quite some earth-quake there.

Of course, this is just the wild rantings of biased lefties who hate Rupert Murdoch for his attacks on the print-unions... ;)

[fedsron2us]

4. I see Cameron was conveniently out of the country when the storm broke

If things go on at this rate his going to wind up spending most of his Premiership overseas.

[oldironside]

5. If things go on at this rate...

... the rest if his premiership could be counted in days. :toast:

[fedsron2us]

6. It would be comforting to think the sort of cosy arrangement between the Met and NI

was an exception. Sadly even the most cursory search on Google can come up with many similar examples of such arrangements between corporations and public bodies

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce