Thank you for your email in response to the decision by Vince Cable to refer News Corporation’s plan to take full control of BSkyB to Ofcom.
I would much have preferred Vince Cable to use his powers to block Mr. Murdoch’s ambitions and he could have made this decision himself. The problem about referring this take-over to Ofcom is that they owe their existence, as do all other regulators, to Government dictact and if they produce a report which is not strongly against the take-over then this provides Vince Cable and the Coalition with the justification for not blocking the proposed take-over because he is not obliged to refer it to the Competition Commission.
I do not want Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation to take control of BSkyB and if Vince Cable and the Coalition were opposed to this take-over then powers exist to stop it without referring it to a body like Ofcom.
