In what can only be described as underhand tactics, it is revealed that the right wing Daily Telegraph has claimed another scoop. Hot on the heels of the MPs’ expenses affair, this time they had the high ranking Liberal Democrats in their sights. Vince Cable did not disappoint when he freely expressed his concerns over the mighty Murdoch Empire taking on full control of BSKYB and uneasiness about the Coalition Government, generally.

The damage to the fragile Government by such a huge figure within the Coalition Cabinet is clear for all to see, apparently, not so for the opportunistic bunch at the top of the Tory and the Lib Dem Party. The Tories are fuming at the prospect of Vince Cable still being kept in the Cabinet with some of his powers being stripped and passed to Jeremy Hunt. This is the same Jeremy Hunt, who in the past has praised Rupert Murdoch and BSKYB. How, this decision, to pass the responsibility to oversee the process to hand total control of BSKYB to Murdoch is now almost guaranteed.

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No time has been wasted by the detractors of the Prime Minister Gordon Brown after the breadth taking spiral of incriminating episode of MP expenses scandal that three prominent members of his own Government have stuck the knife in. It has been an extraordinary few days as the public voted during the European Elections and some local and county level elections in the UK. The results of the former followed on Sunday after the polls had closed in the rest of the European Union and the results of the latter were all too obvious as Labour Party saw spectacular losses to the opposition parties with gains by smaller political parties including the far right. It seemed from the early exit polls that the far right was on the march in gaining valuable footholds across Europe with Turkey ‘bashing’ their mantra to keep Turkey ‘out of Europe’. History was made as the far right racist BNP (British National Party) won in the UK for the first time with two seats in EU Parliament.  Nothing new there then apart from the fact how similar this all chimes with the mantra from Nicholas Sarkozy during his electioneering in France and those of Angela Merkel during her election in Germany.