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Good news coming out Reuters. also "Blair flew across the world when summoned by Murdoch. The first day of Cameron being Prime Minister Murdoch is seen leaving no.10 by the back door. " James you forgot the near "deafening silence" from your own party when Vince got jumped by 2 NewsCorp sponsored Telegraph Journo's. But hey in the end Vince went to war and it looks like war won.

Amazing eh....when politicians work together because of the sheer weight of public togetherness, looks like good news story for everyone. In the end Murdoch may well have been done by the very force that he has blackmailed successive governments with, the so called masses channelled through the SUN. This time however all the petitions were being held by OFCOM. NewsCorp panicked and tried to swerve ofcom who they had no leverage over, loose cannons in newsCorps eyes. Ofcom were going to veto it because of 300000+ public petitions. Lets hope they really get taken out over the other side of the pond, FOX news is in the cross hairs. (Reuters) - The government will vote in favour of a Labour opposition parliamentary motion calling on News Corp to withdraw its bid for pay TV operator BSkyB, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday. "The prime minister will support it and the government will support it," the spokesman told reporters. The Liberal Democrats, the junior partners in the coalition government, will also vote in favour of the motion, according to a party source. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is overseeing the decision on the takeover bid in a quasi-judicial role, will abstain from the vote Wednesday. The vote is non-binding but cross-party support for the motion would send a strong signal to News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch that he would be acting against the will of parliament if the bid was not withdrawn. Shares in BSkyB fell on the news, to be down 3.3 percent after earlier trading down about 1 percent.

I think it has been posted here before , but here is a fresh one. It's the final push to pressure Ofcom , the government are looking for a way out and ofcom is it, NewCorp is threatening to sue. The BBC has also been warned by NewsCorp and are being frightened into just reporting the statments that NewsCorp give them. "Rupert Murdoch arrives in the UK to take control of the situation" that was yesterday's NewsCorp spin, and everyone was made aware that the news headlines and copy was being watched. Nobody deviated from that line. Ofcom can act, they may get sued but the governemt knows it is ringfenced and the legal fire, if it starts, can not jump. Send the petion count up even further and make them take note, they have been given the green light by the government, the coalition is holding. The petition text: Dear David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, We're standing up for higher media standards, and respect for the rule of law. We demand a stop to the BSkyB takeover, and a full public inquiry into the Murdoch empire's phone hacking activities. We can't trust Murdoch's ?promises? about respecting UK democracy and media plurality if he takes over BSkyB, while his newspapers stand accused of immoral and criminal activities. These allegations prove we need a full inquiry into phone hacking and whether Murdoch is a fit and proper media owner - not another Murdoch media power grab. http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/murdoch-deal-petition Take 5mins and just do it if you have not already done so.