John Prescott on the News of the World hacking scandal [1/2] | 6 July 2011 - Lateline

[sacsofmoney]

John Prescot looks more sad and upset than angry

[fozzyposh]

One thing Prescott said is, I feel, very true: nobody cared when it was just celebs and politicians getting their phones hacked. Why is it that we only care when its soldiers families and families fo the deceased?

The public are at fault for funding N.I by buying their papers and for not caring when the first reports came through, N.I would never have tried any of this hacking against members of the public if people has the bollox to speak out against the hacking of politicians and celebs.

[felix3840]

@fozzyposh I think the reason the public don't mind politicians having their phones hacked is because they believe, and so do I, that someone needs to keep an eye on them. They make laws, they (illegally) take us to war, they endlessly try to remove our civil liberties and they fiddle their expenses. And, incidentally, John Prescott did all of those things

But celebrities should not be hacked and Milly Dowler certainly should not have been.

[felix3840]

What Prescott is doing here is shamelessly exploiting Milly Dowler for his own ends. He has long been claiming that his phone was hacked, which is probably true. But to his dismay, nobody gave a damn. The public actually believe that sleazy politicians - and they don’t come much sleazier than Prescott - should have their phones hacked, but they quite rightly hate News International for hacking Milly’s phone. And Prescott is milking that entirely for his own gain.

[opsvideo2008]

Mr John Prescott certainly presented a very lucid picture of the whole scandal.

[unconcious5urge]

Rupert Murdoch is the Arch-Turd of the world. Not only becauseof this, but because he has been manipulating the politics of the English speaking world for decades. From what i've read he was in on the world trade centre's fall. Time for your fall Sly Morecock. Hooray!

[kelso120]

prescott is usualy a twat but he is talking the truth here, his daily rants have been comedy gold.

[ALBIONTYKE]

The only thing that has unnerved the politicians, police judiciary & media is the fact that the ordinary people of Britain have finally crawled out of their comfortable sleepy hollow's & uncharacteristicly kicked off as if they had suddenly developed a Latin temperament. The establishment are running in all directions like scared rats, because they have never in their lives seen this kind of reaction before.

[Curious2afault1]

This is HUGE news.... and 289 views? The machine at work. It's disgusting.

Here's a new clip from australian telly a few days ago.. just crazy there isnt more attention. Paul McMullan speaks of NOTW's closure - ABC News 24.. search it

[MrWarrenross]

I share your astonishment. Prescott's comments are the most lucid and powerful I have heard on the subject. I watched it on ABC's Lateline programme at the time. Murdoch has been privatising Government public relations since 1972. In 1975, he showed his future form when he ran a one month campaign to destroy a progressive Government (Whitlam). A couple of hundred people on News Limited to stop the paper delivery trucks getting out. His journalists went on strike over editorial bias.

[felix3840]

A CHALLENGE TO JOHN PRESCOTT

Last night on Newsnight, Steve Coogan - one of those, like Prescott, believed to have been phone-hacked by the NOTW - pledged that any compensation he receives will be donated to charity.

Will John Prescott make that same pledge?

Or is Prescott only interested in how much money he personally can make out of this?

[malcolmx28]

@felix3840 - The issue is not how much money anyone can make out of this scandal - the issue is what are we, the public going to do to remove Zionists from these positions of power and influence.

[MrWarrenross]

@felix3840 - Prescott's contribution to the debate is powerful and carries a serious warning for our democracies. It is not about money.

[felix3840]

@MrWarrenross Then all Prescott has to do is publicly pledge that any compensation he receives will go to charity, and his contribution will, at a stroke, become even more powerful.

Steve Coogan has done it and George Galloway has also hinted that he will give away any award he receives. So why won't Prescott make the same promise?