Ding dong..

Finally the assumed inevitable has happened. 

Rebekah Brooks has taken the hint and handed in her resignation. 

Due to the wealth of information that is circulating the web re. phone hacking scandal here are what I believe to be the most important points on the matter from Chris Bryant in TheGuardian...

“It is "inconceivable" that she didn't know what was going on in her paper. Large sums of money were being paid to the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. What did she think they were getting in return? And how did she think the scoops she was running had been sourced? Many of them were potentially actionable. Surely she checked? If she did know, she's been lying all this time – and if she didn't she's been culpably negligent.” (Please see previous blog entry...great minds think alike).

“It is also "inconceivable" that she had no inkling of the payment of police officers. In 2003 she actually admitted that the newspaper had paid them for information, which is straightforward bribery. This April, though, she wrote to the home affairs committee that she had never meant to suggest she actually knew of any specific examples. And yet now we learn she has handed over information to Operation Weeting that suggests another senior executive did indeed know about such payments. Frankly, I think she briefly told the truth in 2003.” (Please see previous blog entry..I am a genius).

To round it all off..

“The people working in the boiler room, many of them thoroughly decent journalists, carried the can for those at the helm. But still protecting Brooks remained Rupert's sole "priority".”

This is clearly a case of skewed morals when faced with exclusive scoops and boosting sales. This is also a woman who hours after the 9/11 attacks sat in a newspaper office and made it a priority to ask the papers official Harry Potter correspondent (actually required to change his name via Deed Poll to Harry Potter for the job) to dress up as the wizard for a news conference the following day.

A course in morality and a house in the country for the Witch of Wapping please.