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Originally Posted by joeysteele

I don't know as I said before on this thread, Cameron is being seen by many as dragging his heels on this one,even people who cannot stand Ed Miliband are saying he is saying the right things.The Conservative party has rumblings in it against Cameron, they are worried about this one,they know only too well how scandals destroyed them in 1997.
I think Cameron has a hard road ahead unless he grasps the whole thing and ensures that Murdoch's bid for full control of BSkyB is blocked for the time being, that he gets these inquiries up and running faster than he seems to want to and that he really starts to massively distance himself from the Murdoch papers and empire.

The Lib Dems, with their itchy feet, could well be crucial too in whether Cameron rides out the storm that's brewing.
So much still to be made known, Police investigations seen to be at best a farce, it's not a good time to be seen as a friend of the Murdochs.

A lot of people and growing by the day, I have spoken to or know of, are not impressed at all with Cameron's response to this issue and if Coulson is in really deep trouble then Cameron has a very hard road ahead indeed.

He is still not high in the polls, barely where he was at best in 2010 at the election,the Conservative backbenchers and the 1922 committee will not be impressed if this scandal seems to take them down further.They will blame Cameron for that.

Of course Ed Miliband is saying all the right things, he is not under the same pressure as Cameron, the NOTW situation is a gift to him, he'll milk it dry, talk is easy to him he doesn't have to put it into action.

Yes, the public want to see distance between Murdoch and Cameron, but that isn't going to be that simple, Cameron has inherited this relationship with the Murdoch that goes way back, he didn't suddenly start it and it's going to take time to create that distance and Murdoch has such power, of course Cameron will be nervous about how damaging it will all be for him to break off the relationship. This is just another mess that Cameron has inherited and has the nightmare of trying to clean up. As someone has posted, he's damned either way.

You're right Joey, he's still not high in the polls, that's why this will be used as a weapon to bring him down further. But if it wasn't this it would have been something else, no one seems to want him to suceed, so he's not really going to be given a chance.

As Livia said, this is just diverting from the actual situation and the real people responsible. David Cameron is just an easy target, and if the focus is on him, the problem will never get solved