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  No I don't think things should be left as they are - far from it. For years people have been complaining about the press for a multitude of reasons but what we have with the final report is a dog's dinner.
  It seems to me that they have concentrated on the bleatings of minor celebs and other high profilers with an axe to grind mixing that up with those who have been truly damaged and hurt by the goings on with every single newspaper in the market.
  Rather like banking where the retail and investment sides of the banks were lumped together which created one almighty mess what the Leveson report has done is fail to have looked at the investigative aspect of journalism (good) and the public assassination and tawdry tabloid reduction of people's lives (very bad) and separate the two.
  So what will happen if the proposals go through is a clampdown on real investigative reporting of the rich, infamous and high minded hypocrites where the original intention was to protect the public.
  Very, very clever lawyers and lobbyists will use any changes to protect their interests in the most forceful of ways only imaginable in banana republics and despotic regimes.
  The road to hell is paved with good intentions and what really gets my goat is the exploitation of those such as milliband who are only using the issue for political gains.
  Hopefully the public will see through it but I suspect they won't.
  Hopefully Cameron will stay true to his word and oppose these measures but, again, I suspect he won't.

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