Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Nick Clegg as PM ?

The fallout from the phone hacking scandal is moving at lightning speed. Resignations are piling up at Downing Street's door. Both the commissioner and AC have gone in the last 24 hrs and Brooks at NI on Friday. Tomorrow we have the select committee hearing and Wednesday Cameron cuts short his trip to Africa to attend another debate surrounding associations and fallout from this hacking scandal.

The heat appears not to have been taken out of this scandal by the above mentioned resignations. In deed it appears that pressure is increasing on Cameron to justify his associations with Coulson and his 26 meetings held over the last 18 months with NI executives.

Borris has just explained at a news conference this afternoon that the Met Commissioner and his AC have had to go because of distractions getting in the way of doing their job (such as questions surrounding their associations with the ex- deputy NOTW editor, later hired as a PR man by the Met and other circumstances).

Is Cameron's association with Coulson and News International beginning to hamper his efforts to get on with the job of running the country? Will he end up resigning as PM?

If so, could we see Nick Clegg as the next Prime Minister?

Or even the possibility of a snap election in the autumn?!

Right now events breaking daily on the news seem almost stranger than fiction.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on July 18, 2011 at 15:49

He is damaged though. He could be pushed rather than fall.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 19, 2011 at 20:33

Ladbrokes, 16/1. William Hill, 16/1 that he won't last past Sunday.

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Permalink Reply by Angela on July 19, 2011 at 20:55

Conservative blooger Iain Dale writes; 'I can't believe I'm writing this but it's no longer an impossibili...

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 19, 2011 at 21:52

Seen the NZDGBP rate lately? The world is getting VERY weird.

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Permalink Reply by matt on July 20, 2011 at 0:04

The pound is worth a lot less anywhere which is why many of us are holidaying within UK borders this summer. Of course it's not going very far here either!

'Very weird' - that comes as we get closer to the euro imploding ( re Italy & Spain situation) and the US dollar getting downrated for the first time in its history (see Standard & poor's judgement). Which is why we need a strong leader in power right now ... not distracted by scandals seeping through the British establishment.

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Permalink Reply by james walsh on July 18, 2011 at 15:48

I predict Rupert Murdoch AND his son James to resign - News International board have the power to remove Rupert (as happened to Henry Ford way back). NI are hemorrhaging cash every day this goes on.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on July 18, 2011 at 16:00

Possible. What are ordinary shareholders supposed to make of it, when the chairman flies in to crisis manage and when asked what his top priority is, turns to Ms Brooks and says "this one!". Er, what about the owners of the company? This might wash in a small provincial town newspaper but on an international company with listed around the world?