Sunday, January 23, 2011

To whom and to whom nothing is too

To whom and to whom nothing is too. We even heads of government plurinquisiti you dream of leaving the chair. Elsewhere, even if the wife will put the horns you throw in the towel. In the UK there's even an excess of resignation, with two excellent heads rolling in just 24 hours. The first is Alan Johnson, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer of the British Government: he resigned because his wife cornificava with a bodyguard employed to protect his family when he was interior minister of the Brown government.

He left with a short letter to the Labour party leader Ed Miliband, where he explains: "In order to address serious issues that relate to my private life resigned because my personal situation is more compatible with high role it plays" . Johnson, 60, a former postman and trade unionist, known for his gaffes and considered too cheeky character, gives way in Miliband Ed Balls and forces in a small reshuffle in the Shadow Cabinet.

No one will cry because they lack all of the comments agree that the former interior minister was totally incopetente in financial matters and therefore at this time of economic crisis, Labour is happy to be able to replace. Although the history of the horns was a useful screen to mask a political motivation, what is striking are the consequences of what the newspapers tell how big a sex scandal.

A few hours after the announcement of the resignation of Johnson started disciplinary proceedings against the policeman lover, Paul Rice, who is likely to be suspended from office within 24 hours and will most likely fired for reprehensible conduct. Scotland Yard talks about "rumors that will be taken very seriously." The sex scandal is serious not because of the impact on Johnson, but because it threatened to "blacken" the high position that he covered.

Different situation but same end for the other head last fall, that of David Cameron's spokesman Andy Coulson. The former director of the News of the World has resigned after being at the center of the scandal over illegal wiretapping conducted by his newspaper. Cameron said: "I regret that Andy has decided to resign even though I understand that because of pressure on him and the family felt compelled to do so.

He told me that the focus on him prevented him from doing his job and began to prove a distraction for the government. " Resignation of those heavy Coulson, a big shot, the common man Cameron, who has always denied being directly involved in the wiretapping unreadable, run by Rupert Murdoch's tabloid when he was its director, to the detriment of the phones of actresses, models of Elle Macpherson and even the pincipini William and Harry.

The illegal wiretapping of the News of the World had emerged in 2007 and have already sent to jail a journalist for the tabloid, Clive Goodman and a private detective hired by the newspaper. Now the shadow of the scandal reaches across govenro Cameron and solelva "serious doubts" on the opinion of the Prime Minister when he chose a man like Murdoch's spokesman.

Coulson, however, is suspect and his position has been called into question last summer when an investigation of the New York Times had to pull it back into play as principal of illegal methods to obtain scoop. The resignation of a cuckold and a suspect are not over-correct or that we have raised the level of tolerance so as not to surprise us more than anything? We do an exercise in political fantasy: what would happen in the UK if a prime minister was alleged to have paid an underage girl for sex.

And when told of dozens of girls partying at red lights in his residence. What if ....

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