For several days now, more days than I care to recall, Arturo and I have been fixed to the floor transfixed by the Leveson Inquiry TV coverage. It's been one long round of the so-called Good and Great parading their foibles and prejudices before the sharpened clinical dissecting questions from Mr Jay. More assured than any David Frost, Michael Parkinson, Jeremy Paxman, Mr Robert Jay QC exposed the weaknesses of the UK's top politicians!
Former Prime Ministers Blair, Major and Brown were shown to have feet of clay! 'Georgy' Osborne blinked and smirked at the camera giving the impression of a man of light mental weight - this is worrying since he is supposed to put the country back on its economic feet. However, he has the perfect excuse that we are all 'going to Hell in a handcart' because of the Euro! And if it all goes wrong, he'll no doubt say: 'It weren't me, Guv!'
Today, the event that provoked Arturo's outcry of 'No, he can't' was the testimony of 'Boy David' Cameron before Leveson and the revelations of various texts that he had received.
There was one text, in particular, that should have caused shudders to be felt around Downing Street and not just by us cats! The text was from the 'Red-Haired Creature' Rebekah Brooks. It read:
But seriously I do understand the issue with the Times. Let's discuss over country supper soon. On the party it was because I had asked a number of NI [News International] people to Manchester post endorsement and they were disappointed not to see you. But as always Sam was wonderful (and I thought it was OE's [Old Etonians] were charm personfied!) I am so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a proud friend but because professionally we're definitely in this together! Speech of your life? Yes he Camhttp://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/?day=2012-06-14'
I am so rooting for you tomorrow ... as a proud friend' Yuk! '...professionally we're definitely in this together!' And yuk again! Isn't this the lingo of teenagers? Yet, it is from a newspaper editor who is almost 40 years of age to the Leader of the Conservative Party aged over 40! Hardly two gauche teenagers planning a barbecue!
Of course, the implications are even more worrying. This could be observed from 'Boy David' Cameron's obvious discomfort on hearing the text read out. It was bad enough to be signing off his own texts with LOL! Now this text shows how in thrall he was to the News International set who were 'disappointed' not to have seen him at some party to which he had sent his wife instead.
To be fair - and Arturo and I are always fair - the text was written in 2009. In the subsequent three years, an awful lot of water has gone under the bridge! Cameron is no longer just Leader of the Conservatives, he is Prime Minister. Brooks was riding high, in every sense of the word (remember Raisa) with no whiff or sniff of overt scandal around her. Now, she is awaiting trial together with her husband, Charlie, former Old Etonian pal and neighbour of the Camerons.
In the interim, the PM once a PR man par excellence has been made to look, as any Cockney would say, 'a right old twerp'. Arturo and I are going to cool our fevered brows by taking a look at the countdown clock in Trafalgar Square. Arturo is sure to ask:
Do you think Jeremy Hunt will still be Secretary of State when the Olympic clock shows zero?
'Bye'
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