Email to my MP


To        Mark Reckless MP

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Subject        BSKyB - please stand up to Murdoch

Message,

I apologise if I seem to badger you, but stopping Murdoch is essential to the very foundations of our democracy.

I have seen reports that there may be a vote on Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB takeover this Wednesday. Please can you assure me that you will vote in favour of halting the takeover?

Much more information is available than at the start of the takeover process started last year. Rupert Murdoch's empire stands accused of appalling crimes and is now under criminal investigation. There are fears that his act of damage limitation in closing the News of the World conceals a deeper purpose: the hiding of information that would once have been recorded or remembered there. That looks entirely credible in the light of the over-specific and over-narrow advice carefully given by Abramson at Harbottle & Lewis, and last night given to the BBC. That advice carefully did not address whether the evidence reviewed by Abramson disclosed (as it allegedly did) bribery of apparently a number of police officers. As a consequence the police investigating the Murdoch empire were kept in the dark about important information for several years.

The reliability of "undertakings" Murdoch is offering must be in doubt.

I must press you to do the right thing. The government must control Murdoch, not the other way round.

Yours sincerely,

Richard Bridge