The on going phone hacking scandal is bringing up more information and resignations every day. It could be on the same scale as Watergate in 1972 when the affair brought about the imprisonment of the former Attorney General John Mitchell and the impeachment two years later of President Nixon. In 1963 we had the Profumo affair that saw the then minister for war John Profumo having to resign from parliament for lying to parliament, about his affair with Christine Keeler. Months later it brought about the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government. Though Profumo resigned from parliament he also resigned as a privy councillor, so as to save the queen being embaressed due to the fact that she would have had to revoke his position as a privy councillor. Today we have the phone hacking scandal that is bringing about possible prosecutions and the now resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson head of the Met. Yet we have a prime minister who took on Andy Coulson of the News of the World newspaper even though he was advised not to because he was carrying baggage from that paper over the phone hacking from four years previously. Perhaps it would be an honourable thing for this prime minister to fall on his sword as he is tainted with some of his dealings with at least some dubious people within his circle of acquaintances. Again I want my leaders to be like Caesar wife above reproach and this I believe does not apply to the Prime Minister David Cameron. Who I believe should be tried if only for treason for the way that he has decimated Britain's Armed Forces, at a time when they are dealing with at least three on going major conflicts in the world. Its quite obvious that this person knows nothing about the history or the military of this country.
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