How this could escalate (BBC Injunction on Cash for Peerages)

The rumours are flying left and right at the moment. All the known characters must have some sort of claim to exposure in the media, so a case for not getting a fair trial ( as does just about every other arrest the media ever reports on ).

So what could be critical that it requires the Met to get the AG to apply for an injunction.

Surely the information will leak, and leak soon - if only on foreign media or the net. The Met must know this.

Then the whole business of trying to prevent its coming into the public domain will add to the credibility of that information - making a fair trial less likely, not more.

So perhaps there's some sort of time critical element here - if so the Met will need to move before Monday as the BBC may challenge the injunction.

Or there is something else involved here - like the influence of a foreign government which relates to national security ? If so its all going very Robert Maxwell. Do you follow me ? (Currently starting to look like I was well wide of the mark on this aspect )

I'm just wildly speculating - but the answer is probably staring us in the face here. What doesn't make sense is what we have been told so far....

Update: Iain Dale is wondering if the injunction isn't to avoid giving the CPS and excuse not to prosecute ...

Update: John Hirst ( who has comments below also ) has been talking to a contact near the BBC ..

"A source in London has informed me that it is close, very close. And, that the BBC was about to broadcast a story which the police intend to use as evidence in a prosecution. My source, reflected on Thatcher, and said that she was bad, but that this is worse, a lot worse. My source said, that we used to call Fleet Street the street of shame. Now it is Downing Street which is the street of shame. I find myself agreeing with my source who has close links with the BBC."

John is starting to feel sorry for those who are Labour supporters but not involved, but Man in a Shed's empathy goes only so far ...

Update: The BBC is now saying the injunction was concerning an internal email within Downing street - see here. Now given Downing street protestations of full cooperation with the police then why is this news ? Clearly there's a legal reason why we shouldn't find out until after a trial - or a decision not to prosecute by the CPS under Lord Goldsmith's guidance.

Rumour Alert:: Iain Dale's Diary: EXCLUSIVE: Has the Government Gagged the Beeb?

Iain Dale's Diary: EXCLUSIVE: Has the Government Gagged the Beeb?
and you get 3 guesses to what it might be about ( but you'll need only one. )

This is either just a rumour - or its going to leak on the net soon. I'm off to search for it ... (adding updates to this blog as I go ..)

Update: John Hurst has some ideas here....
and Luke Akehurst's blog here - he doesn't know any more - but plays it well in an eye catching blog, for a Leftie.


Further comment:

If Lord Goldsmith is protecting the 'rights' of a member of Tony Blair's staff then they get better treatment than the general public do. Who can forget the man alledged to have sent the parcel bombs to various offices lately. The cameras were outside his home within hours telling us he 'live with his mother' ( as all TV psycho's do ) - doesn't that impact the chance of a fair trial ?

Its one rule for the socialist rulers and another for their victims. Strangely my son is on the Socialist Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) for indoctrinating children (BBC Schools). He's been looking at Elizabeth Fry and how people without connections get sent to prison but not the well connected "Toffs". Go play yourself if you don't believe me ... go here - choose Elizabeth Fry then click on the Prison Game.. ( Afterwards tell me what has changed .. since ). Maybe I should use Net Nanny to block the BBC site from my children.


Maybe Leo could show Tony this site also ?

Update: The BBC just reported on the radio that no one had yet been charged ... so that's the end of that rumour.

Update: Iain Dale now thinks its to do with an email incriminating someone, and has a name in mind - but for reasons of justifiable caution isn't saying yet. The blog feeding frenzy will continue until we find out ....

Update: Benedict White of A Conservative's Blog seems to know what he's talking about legally - worth a read to see how things may go over the next few days.

Update: Static Squid tries to reason things out here - and he also knows that "The verb from injunction is not 'injunct'; it is 'enjoin'. So the BBC has not been injuncted, it has been enjoined." So he is at least spreading some light on the debate !

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