Employing someone who 10 years ago may have engaged in some, or known about dodgy journalistic tactics is hardly much to write home about.
Of course he had meetings with execs from NewsCorp. They own a bunch of newspapers! Blair and Brown did exactly the same.
It sounds like you'd like the government to fall. I don't think most people in the country would.
I think most people are thoroughly bored of this 'scandal' about a bit of corruption that happened 10 years ago. There's more important news out there. Like the collapse of the Euro.