Geoffrey Robertson QC pontificating

Every day (almost every hour it seems) brings new and shocking developments in the 'phone hacking scandal - and yet Daily Politics has gone off on a long summer holiday!

I have just watched BBC News 24 (I am holiday myself for a couple of weeks) and saw Geoffrey Robertson QC pontificating about the Prime Minister's supposed lack of judgment in employing Andy Coulson.  Geoffrey Robertson is reputed to have a brilliant legal mind, so it is odd to see him make such lazy and illogical comments.  IF the Labour government of Tony Blair / Gordon Brown AND the Metropolitan Police had been doing their job in the first place Andy Coulson would not have been available for hire - he would have been arrested long ago and processed through the criminal justice system.

Therefore there cannot be much of an "error of judgment" by David Cameron in employing Andy Coulson.  Mr Coulson had already been given an implicit clean bill of health by the Labour government and Metropolitan Police.  The most you can accuse David Cameron of is being too trusting (and it now seems we cannot trust the Metropolitan Police - which is a very serious state of affairs).

The focus by the media on David Cameron is irritating as it seems to be going off on an unimportant tangent.

The real issue is what happened during the Blair government.  In particular the Murdoch press cheerleading for British involvment in the Iraq war.  What reward did the American government give the Murdoch press in return for delivering British participation in the invasion of Iraq (since it is inconceivable that Blair would have gone to war without the support of Murdoch)?

PS If we are to have a female new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police can I suggest Julie Spence, former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire and the current president of the British Association for Women in Policing, given an OBE earlier this year for "management of complex and contentious organisational issues".