By Michael Smith (Veshengro)
While we all may fall victim to bad judgment every now and then the Coulson affair is beginning to become a serious problem.
Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former director of communications, is being investigated by police for allegedly committing perjury while working for David Cameron in Downing Street.
Coulson, former editor of the now defunct News of the World and later spin doctor at No.10 is becoming more and more and embarrassment to the PM and more.
The development renews pressure on the prime minister over his judgment in hiring the former News of the World editor and in retaining him only until not so long ago.
It also renews the question as to whether David Cameron is a suitable person to lead this country, that is to say, Britain, and whether his position as Prime Minister has not, indeed, become untenable.
I am not a Labor man, as my readers will have noticed from my writings during the Labor years; far from it. But I am not a Tory man either, and neither a Lib-Dem one and thus, I believe, I am places well enough to ask the question as to whether it is not time that we looked at the Con-Dem regime in Britain, or at least at the Prime Minister and his position.
David Cameron has gotten serious egg on his face with his support for Andy Coulson even when it became evident that Mr. Coulson was rather economical with the truth.
Friendship and loyalty to a friend are great attributes but... there comes indeed a time, especially when one is in such high office, to cut all ties and set someone e like Coulson adrift. The problem is that the Prime Minister did not do that soon enough. This has seriously dented and tainted his image.
In addition to Andy Coulson there is his friendship with Rebecca Brooks, another former editor of the paper in question and until recently CEO of Murdoch's empire's UK arm.
It is serious time that David Cameron reconsidered the way he does things and maybe even his position as Prime Minister and whether it would not be for the better of his party, the coalition government and the country if he stepped down as Prime Minister, leader of the Conservative Party and, ideally, even as a Member of Parliament.
How say you, Mr. Cameron? Would you not say that you have been compromised and probably beyond repair?
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