I don't know why they use one or the other - they should use the median between the two figuires.
The BBC's contract with Clarkson must have contained the usual clause about not bringing the organisation into disrepute by his actions/words. It is about time the BBC reminded Clarkson he is an employee
and the government don't waste money by taking unions to the courts? i.e when a legal ballot has been held and they try to get it ruled invalid and fail
clarkson is funny on top gear but should be restrained from commenting on politics, its no coincidence that he is mates with the muppet prime minister either
Said like someone who didn't watch the whole thing.A joke has some humour. There was nothing to laugh at in his excretable comments. The only humour, if it can be called humour is Clarkson making an arse of himself.
Matt Baker [presenter]: Well Jeremy, schools, hospitals, airports, even driving tests, have all been affected. Do you think the strikes have been a good idea?
Jeremy Clarkson [guest]: I think they have been fantastic. Absolutely. London today has just been empty. Everybody stayed at home, you can whizz about, restaurants are empty.
Alex Jones [presenter]: The traffic, actually, has been very good today.
Jeremy Clarkson: Airports, people streaming through with no problems at all. And it's also like being back in the 70s. It makes me feel at home somehow.
Matt Baker: Do you know anyone who has been on strike today?
Jeremy Clarkson: Of course I don't, no. What, somebody public service? No, I don't. No, absolutely. But we have to balance this though, because this is the BBC.
Matt Baker: Yes, exactly.
Jeremy Clarkson: Frankly, I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean, how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?
Matt Baker: Well, on that note of balancing an opinion, of course those are Jeremy's views.
Alex Jones: Only Jeremy's views.
Jeremy Clarkson: They're not. I've just given two views for you.
[TW]Fox;20703710 said:He isn't though is he? He's an employee of his own company, and is contracted to the BBC.
I don't think he's a BBC Employee in a traditional sense, he's simply a contractor. The BBC buys services from him.
if the PM is a muppet what does that make the leader of the opposition
To be fair Dolph if he'd have said "all Tories should be lined up and shot" we'd be having exactly the same discussion.
Oh I see, I didn't realise you were playing devils advocate. For what it's worth I don't have a problem with what he said or why there's so much attention being given to Jeremy Clarkson.So am I allowed to misinterpret his comments, or is it only Clarkson that can be misunderstood?
Oh I see, I didn't realise you were playing devils advocate. For what it's worth I don't have a problem with what he said or why there's so much attention being given to Jeremy Clarkson.
RCN have said the government has till December to improve the offer or else they will ballot on the 10th January for industrial action for the first time ever.
Was he being critical or was he merely asking how someone in a position of massive stress and responsibility can relax at the end of the day?
I've watched it a few times and the first time I thought it was just a general question.
Till when in December?
What the hell is going on?
I got my answer from a chance remark made by Jeremy Vine after our interview. He was telling me about the phone-in he'd done the day before during the public sector workers' strike and what had astonished him was the mood of the callers. If I remember what he said correctly, one of his studio guests was a nurse on a £40,000 PA salary, with a guaranteed £30,000 pension, and this had not gone down well with the mother-of-three from Northern Ireland struggling as a finance officer in the private sector on a salary of £14,000 and no pension to speak of. The callers were very much on the side of the private sector. In fact, they were on the whole absolutely apoplectic that privileged, relatively overpaid public sector workers with their gold-plated pensions should have the gall to go out on strike when the people who pay their salaries – private sector workers – have to go on slogging their guts out regardless.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/j...-the-militant-left-to-attack-jeremy-clarkson/The popular mood has swung dramatically against the public sector. Jeremy Clarkson can go on TV, say they should all be taken out and shot – joshingly, of course – and find an awful lot of agreement from his audience.
How does the left turn round a PR disaster like that? Why obviously, it contrives to make Clarkson the story. It affects to take Clarkson's remarks literally; it explores legal action for "incitement to hatred"; it foments class envy by comparing the millions this public schoolboy earns with the relative peanuts earned by most of those in the public sector; it tugs at the heartstrings, as in this cheaply manipulative bid for sympathy by Unison's Dave Prentis:
Whilst he is driving round in fast cars for a living, public sector workers are busy holding our society together – they save others' lives on a daily basis, they care for the sick, the vulnerable, the elderly. They wipe bottoms, noses, they help children to learn, and empty bins. They deserve all our thanks – certainly not the unbelievable level of abuse he threw at them.
The pity is that the BBC is more in sympathy with the views of leftist militants like Dave Prentis than it is with the preoccupations of its broader audience. Its behaviour in the Clarkson affair has been disgraceful. But then, given what we know of the BBC's political bias, what else could we have expected.
LOL, just lol.
Seriously, don't like the public sector, leave it or bugger off to be honest