Question Time - Hugh Grant - NoW Closure 'Cynical Manoeuvre' [07.07.2011]

Question Time came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July.

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David Dimbleby was joined by the Employment Minister Chris Grayling, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and the veteran Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams.

The actor Hugh Grant also joined the panel alongside the broadcaster and columnist Jon Gaunt.

Actor Hugh Grant has told a BBC Question Time audience that he believes the closure of the News of The World, amid mounting pressure over phone hacking allegations, is a cynical management manoeuvre.

Mr Grant exposed the scandal when he recorded a conversation between himself and former features editor Paul McMullan, in which the journalist revealed details of phone hacking by the media.

Thanks to the BBC.

Thursday 7 July 2011

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  News & Politics

[TheGlobalPanacea]

Hugh Grant was great but Jon Gaunt was just a cunt.

[NOTWPhoneHacking]

LOL!

I just can't argue with that summation. Thumbs up from me.

[Tony the Wanderer]

It was the other way round

[Glaswegianmark]

Sent here via a text by NoW

[nansir]

Money, I'm afraid we are all corrupted by money. We urgently need to evolve beyond it. Please research the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement. Paradise awaits us.

[christinejane83]

Amen, brother



[Kat Hazelton]

At last someone who gives straight answers to questions. Well done Hugh you have balls!

[Joe Blow]

@RaidenAsher I'd empty the bullets from the gun on the ground...and beat him to death with the gun!

[cellartroll68]

Shoot him twice and feed him to the lion. Hopefully the lion will be too full to eat you.

[jacksawild]

If you type "1975 Australian constitutional crisis" into a wikipedia search engine then you can read the story of how the prime minister was dismissed by the governor-general (who holds the Queen's power in Australia). It also happened in the UK at the end of the 19th century and the rumour goes that the UKs election last year was forced by the queen due to the expenses scandal (It was a terrible time for Brown to call an election, so we wonder why?) This saves civil war.

[imaginativelads]

So let me get this right, your Queen does have constitutional powers, is that correct? If that's the case then Britain has certain self correcting mechanisms that we don't have. Unfortunately, America will have to go through many years of growing up to get to your system of government. Can she sack people by public opinion, how does that work? Just curious.