2358 Hrs GMT London Monday 23 March 2009: KHOODEELAAR! told you so!
That the No 10 Downing Street [London SW1] propaganda units went on an overdrive during Monday as the ‘fallout’ from the ‘Tony McNulty scandal’ [as the ‘Harrow Observer’ described it after McNulty or even his ‘office’ failed to talk to them on Monday 23 March 2009 ] threatened to overwhelm Brown.…BBC News Channel fronter Sally in the evening was talking to the ‘Standards Commissioner’. Her 'interview' was broadcast AFTER Channel 4 News fronter Jon SLOW Snow had already done a plug for the Standards Commissioner between 1900 - 2000 Hrs GMT. In that Channel 4 News item they said that Brown had already written to the Commissioner. There was no suggestion that the Commissioner had not received the alleged letter from Gordon Brown. But talking to the BBC News Channel’s Sally, the Commissioner ‘let slip’ that he had yet to receive the letter. That prompted Sally to wonder interrogatively! Which the Commissioner replied to by confirming that he had indeed not received the Brown letter but had got a gist of it! Sally was too BBC-programmed to pursue the aspect any further with the ‘Standards Commissioner’. But the exchange proved one thing: that Number 10 Downing Street were caught almost unprepared by the McNulty ‘scandal’. They decided to bring the scandal to a close. At least for the time being. So they were issuing contradictory signals to the media. Which explains the contradictions evident between the Channel 4 News package and the BBC News Channel treatment of the Gordon Brown segment, in the McNulty ’Scandal-Saga’. This came about as different staffers were making up ‘policy positions’ as they fielded ,media inquiries aND RESPONDED To the media onslaught of the McNulty scandal [HARROW OBSERVER]. This also shows that the claims eventually contained in the ‘letter’ as ‘exhibited’ in the Nick Robinson package carried in the 10 O'clock bulletin had not been well-credited. What this means is that Brown REACTED to the scandal of MPs dominating the two days of political news at home. This is the opposite of Brown’s having a demonstrable record of being committed to cleaning up Parliament.... The BBC’s political Editor Nick Robinson’s suggestion that Brown had a different ethical policy distinguished from the scandals-hit MPs, is not substantiated by the evidence...[To be continued]
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