(24-11-2013 01:24 )eccles Wrote: [ -> ]Apart from the schadenfreude, and this thread being about Tory views
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This thread is actually about tory plans
for Ofcom, not tory views in general
And if you read the article, it is not
David Cameron's twitter account, it is
the prime minister's account, a generic account which applies to the role he happens to be currently occupying, and the system set in place that led to this situation was instituted under Gordon Brown and the Labour Party's leadership.
An amusing little sideshow worthy of a chuckle, but nothing to get excited about, and irrelevant here.
(24-11-2013 01:24 )eccles Wrote: [ -> ](The irony is that it was Margaret Thatcher, who was hardly porn friendly, who made it easy for any home to receive foreign porn channels, by removing planning restrictions and the requirement to get a special radio operators licence.)
Remarkable isn't it, how the party of the individual and Adam Smith's "invisible hand" became in just a few short years the party of big society and David Cameron's ubiquitous mug.
As for Tory plans for Ofcom? It's clear those were put on hold the second DC got his foot in the door of No. 10.
Now that we've seen the extent to which he wants, in the words of one commentator, to "colonise our internal world", Cameron in full "control the message" mode a la his political idol (no, not Maggie) was hardly about to relinquish this most useful lever of the State, now, was he?