I'm sick of it......

Is anyone else sick to death of the phone hacking scandal?

I know I am. Every time I turn on the TV news, listen to the radio or open a newspaper there is the smug face and ginger Ninja mane of Rebecca Brooks looking back at me with her equally smug husband learing over her shoulder and Andy Coulson smirking in the background.

In my opinion, of course they did it and knew all about it! And if they didn’t they should be sacked for gross incompetence, because if one of my staff wanted to d something so momentous I’d certainly want to know about it and sign it off. We all know the media are crooks, up there with estate agents and running bankers a very close second. They manipulate, misrepresent and distort almost everything they report because by and large and barring enormous natural disasters like tsunami and earthquakes which cause immense human suffering, news is boring and dull and doesn’t sell papers. So it’s all spiced up, sexed up and amended to be more existing and juicy.

It would come as no surprise to me to learn that in actual fact the hacking is far worse than we even now realise and more ‘big’ names come out of the woodwork. Recently it has been revealed that police and palace officials have been selling confidential lists of mobile numbers belonging to public figures so maybe even Her Maj herself has been hacked. Now what a coup that would be!

They ought to just lock all these people up in cells which have 24 hour CCTV broadcasting live on the web and see how they like it if their every move, word and bodily function is available for all to view. Give ‘em a taste of their own medicine.

And while we’re about it, I am also sick of the ‘plebgate’ scandal which is following close behind phone hacking in news reports and the media generally. So what if some prat of a politician called a few coppers plebs and so what if he actually didn’t and they’re fibbing? Just like we know all of the media, estate agents and bankers are crooks, we also know that all politicians are idiots. How much is the bloody five second episode costing to investigate, is what I’d like to know? Shouldn’t they all just sit down together, say sorry (even if it’s not their fault), shake hands and agree to move on? That’s what we’d tell our children to do but we seem to be allowing this ridiculous episode to assume an importance far beyond what is deserved. Grow up Andrew Mitchell, and focus on what you were elected to do – run the country and represent your constituents instead of trumpeting your inflated view of your own importance!

A couple of years ago I resolved not to read a newspaper again or watch the news because it just made me frustrated and cross, and sometimes depressed. It’s a feeling I get when I’ve been on holiday and not read an English newspaper for two weeks, then get back on the plane, buy one and become increasingly bad tempered as I read through. In particular the Daily Mail, which never misses jumping on a band wagon and only really deserves to be called a comic and not a newspaper, produces this effect.

I think I am going to have to revisit my resolution. I can feel my blood pressure rising as I type. Doctor …….