Jeremy Hunt Set Up A Secret Back Channel To Feed Information To News Corp.
On April 24th explosive emails were released that show that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt schemed with the Murdoch's to help them win the BSkyB deal. This is an outrageous breach of his public duties, but if we raise our voice now we can get him fired. Instead of properly scrutinising this deal, the emails show that Hunt set up a secret back channel to feed information to News Corp. One of the emails revealed that Hunt thought that it was crucial to weaken Avaaz's campaign. We had them running scared! Now, let us use our power to get David Cameron to remove Jeremy Hunt.
This is the top story across the country right now, and Avaaz is the best placed community to finally put an end to this crooked collusion between the Government and the Murdock Mafia. Sign the urgent petition to remove Hunt and send this message to everyone.
Hunt was supposed to judge the BSkyB takeover in an independent, quasi-judicial manner. However hundreds of pages of internal News Corp emails and texts just released by the Leveson enquiry show regular correspondence between News Corp and Hunt's office. The emails show that Hunt shared" News Corps objectives" and sent confidential drafts of key statements to News Corp before making them public - a move News Corp itself say's was "absolutely illegal".
Despite this clear conflict of interest and lack of professionalism, Downing Street is digging in and insists that Hunt still has the Prime Ministers full confidence. But Cameron knows that he faces a vital decision for the credibility of his Government and our massive public outcry will force him to get rid of Hunt, and to reveal the full details of all his interaction with the Murdoch's and their staff. Hunt has shown that he is not fit for his role and cannot be trusted. He thinks this is business as usual and it is up to us to prove him wrong. Join the urgent call. Click the link and forward to all your friends. Together, we helped scrap the Murdoch Mafia's bid for BSkyB last summer. Now we have a chance to clean up the dirty politics that nearly allowed it to sail through.
Emma Ruby Sachs - Avaaz.org
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