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What links Gazza and the Labour Party?

Michael Crick | 19:27 UK time, Sunday, 16 January 2011

I see that Paul Gascoigne is suing the News of the World over allegations that the paper hacked into his phone message.

And who is Gazza's solicitor? None other than Gerald Shamash, frequent solicitor to the Labour Party and several of Labour's disgraced MPs.

I wonder if Labour is quietly encouraging celebs such as Gazza to sue the NoW to keep the story going, and keep up the pressure on Andy Coulson, the paper's former editor who is now David Cameron's Director of Communications.

If so, it may make any Labour reconciliation with the Murdochs a lot harder.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    THAT WOULD BE CONSPIRACY THEORY GUMSHOE

    I couldn't possibly comment.

  • Comment number 2.

    Blimey ....I thought Mardell`s stuff about Palin was scraping the bottom of the liberal barrel of feeble ideas....but this takes the biscuit!

    Who is ever going to give a stuff about our apology for a Labour Party and Ed Moribund anyway?

    Let`s just cut to the chase by commissioning a political X Factor show.... and privatise Westminster (with its entire contents) to whichever branch of organised crime has been running it recently.

  • Comment number 3.

    Labour kick the a*se out of it?? Perish the thought....

  • Comment number 4.

    gaza probably doesn't know what day it is? never mind being in on a james bond plot?

  • Comment number 5.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 6.

    why would anyone want to listen in to Gazza's phone calls? He had a fantastic talent and wasted it, such a shame but listen in to phone calls?it just goes to show how desparate NOTW were....

  • Comment number 7.

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  • Comment number 8.

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  • Comment number 9.

    Looking over Mr. Gascoigne's 'body of 'work'' these last few years, and the ongoing efforts of the ex-government of all talents, one must confess other shared features sprang to mind first.

  • Comment number 10.

    I wonder how many interpreters the 'Boss of the Hackers',now working in Downing Street employed to make sense of Paul's command of the English language. 'Larn yorsel Geordie' an excellent publication, would have been helpful.

  • Comment number 11.

    What an excellent idea - encouraging my celebrity friends, victims of Cameron's King of the Hackers, to sue the NoW in order to prevent any reconciliation with the 'rodents'.

  • Comment number 12.

    I think Michael is correct. Labour have moved into an all out negative politics, aggro full-on, anti-coalition mode, and are calling in all their allies to assist, including Oscar winning lefty Colin Firth who nearly had me drowning my DAB radio in the bath when he was 'guest (of the Unite union)presenter' on the Today programme during the festive season.

    Why the establishment try to have us respect the views of people who's only claim to fame is that they make their living pretending to be other people will remain a mystery to me until the day I die. The one positive legacy JR left behind in my mind, having watched many of his Friday night shows is that he exposed the inverse relationship between the intelligence of an actor and the accolades they are accorded. If you think about it it makes sense- if there's next to nothing there to start with then it's easier to immerse your brain in the personality of someone else you're being paid to pretend to be!

    Thanks Jonathon, for what it's worth I miss you already.

    As for Labour and their masters the TUC, their tactic will work with their creations, the people they have infected with their 'culture of entitlement' ever since World War 2. Add in a healthy mix of the politics of envy, the politics of denial, and a healthy dose of alarmism, and you have the perfect camouflage to hide the truth.

    The truth is of course that they don't have a clue what to do next. They're waiting for us to tell them what they believe in! The only exception is their deep careerist belief that they should be in power. Left, Right, Centre, Labour can do it all! Whatever you want, even unnecessary wars if the country is incited to feeling bellicose, just as long as it's them in power (and the Unite union pulling the strings of course)!

  • Comment number 13.

    TMR...you are a star!

    If they are all waiting for us to provide the ideas why not propose to them that we have a government of national unity ....where all the MP`s simply serve their constituents/constituency rather than these discredited parties (which are indistinguishable anyway!)

    The actual government could be chosen on personal suitability and knowledge from the MP`s we vote in....and they could go down to the US Embassy for detailed instructions .....and all that melodramatic adversarial Punch and Judy "party politics could be over for good.

    None of them would have to pretend to believe all the party rubbish they spouted before and many might prefer loyalty to their constituency after years of having to close their ears to our requests.

    Democracy might then become much more interesting to the public as all the falseness and dishonesty and theatricality became unnecessary.

    Time for my medication methinks!

  • Comment number 14.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 15.

    I see the moderators are sensitive about our learned friends. Understandable, I suppose.

    An old friend of mine who knew the young Gazza is not surprised at the circumstances of the older Gazza. His stories about the young Gazza could have saved the NOTW a fortune but he has good reason not to like the gutter press.

    What happened to the saying `the yellow press'?

  • Comment number 16.

    Good point Stan...why isn`t there a Private Eye-type broadcaster in the world to get under the surface of the half truths and fibs and distraction reporting that mainstream broadcasters seem obliged to dish up to us?

  • Comment number 17.

    Gazza is a simple lad, and the Labour party is full of clever people. They will use anyone who evokes sympathy and sad old Gazza does just that. Cynical, disgusting, but typical.

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