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February 18, 2012 12:08 pm

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Today’s Today programme interview was a fiesty one, with Kelvin Mackenzie telling Tom Watson to “shut up” and “go back to sleep” – listen to it below:

Mackenzie and Watson on The Sun (mp3)

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  • treborc

    Both camps are trying to gain Brownie points.

    If  whistle Blower comes to you and says look I have a great story about this or that, but you will have to pay me ex thousands, would that mean the Story may well be made up not true or in fact they are not blowing a whistle as such but selling a Story.

    Protection for Whistle blowers would be those that are  telling a Story because it’s wrong, not to make profits

    • TomFairfax

       There is the small matter of police staff supposedly being paid on a regular basis. Whisleblower doesn’t fit even vaguely.

      I agree though. Real whistle blowing isn’t for cash, that’s a case of information for sale.

  • JoeDM

    Having listened to it live, I thought that Kelvin Mackenzie was up against both the BBC and the Labour party bod.   Considering that, he did rather well.   Particularly the comments about the MP expenses.

    • Craig1968

      Tom Watson hates it when expenses are brought up.

      The little scam he pulled with his London flat and the subsequent £100,000 he claimed to refurbish it at our expense has probably enabled him to joind Ed’s Shadow cabinet of millionaires.

      The NI titles were particularly good at sniffing out MP’s scandals (from all parties) and this is why the political establishment is going for them.

      • TomFairfax

         And there I was thinking it was the Torygraph exposing the expenses scandal.

        • Craig1968

           And you would be right but I said scandals not specifically the expenses scandal.
          Incidentally I believe that the Sun was offered the discs with the expenses data on it first but refused which turned out to be great news for the Telegraph who decided to buy them.

          • TomFairfax

             Good point. That’s either the equivilent of turning down The Beatles because guitar bands are old hat, or a case of mutual back scratching.

            I’d like to hear their reasons.

  • 000a000

    I must say I find both of them exceptionally irritating
    individuals. You never escape the feeling it’s about coverage of them, and the
    issues in question are incidental.  At least Mackenzie doesn’t hide behind
    MP status in quite the same way Watson does.

  • M Cannon

    When it comes to choosing between Mr Watson MP and Mr McKenzie one falls back upon the great Dr Johnson: “Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.”

  • Dan Mccurry

    Tom seems to have got the tone completely wrong with this. It was an interesting ethical discussion between Evan and McKenzie until Tom came into it. 

  • Dan Mccurry

    Tom seems to have got the tone completely wrong with this. It was an interesting ethical discussion between Evan and McKenzie until Tom came into it. 

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