Hackgate -ridding the UK of the Murdochs

A good posting on the phone hacking scandal from The Slog, linked here, which concludes as follows:

Imagine further that – as The Slog has argued strongly for years – all monied influence on UK elections and Party funding was abolished and criminalised. Taxpayers would pick up the bill…but there would be no more Lord Ashtons, no more Unite meddling – and no more rich bankers or media owners with a potential hold over Prime Ministers.

That’s why the phone-hacking scandal deserves the ‘Watergate’ soubriquet. And that’s why none of us should let it die until all the miscreants have been neutered by the sharp sword of justice.