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General Topics => The Debating Chamber => Topic started by: Daffodil on March 11, 2015, 12:47:38 PM
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It may not be true but it is in the news that Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended because of a "fracas" over punching Oison Tymon when, after a days filming there was no food for him to eat. I no way condone violence but know how a lot of men react when left hungry! :)
Would you get rid of him?
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Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the sooner the better !
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Who would you like to see replace him. I understand Piers Morgan is keen!
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It may not be true ...
So why are you making a judgement on it and asking others to do the same ?
However, it's strange to see that the BBC now seem to have indicated that they find allegedly punching a member of staff far more serious than "kiddy fiddling" or groping young women.
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Where did I make a judgement? I know it is not a proven fact and said so. I would not be surprised if the whole thing just blows over and the programme goes on as usual. Jeremy Clarkson is not someone I personally dislike. My sons enjoy watching the show and I occasionally watch it as well.
Why so defensive
I don't think the show would be the same without him but he does court controversy.
As regard to molestation of children and the attitude of the BBC that is awful and not unfortunately confined to the BBC.I do not wish to bring this aspect up though and would hope the BBC has learned its lesson.
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When I heard that Clarkson had been suspended I thought "Good" . But then I realized that the death penalty had not been brought back.
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So now he will go to Sky for megabucks - they have wanted the Top Gear format for years.
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I agree with you Fabian, Clarkson "does court controversy"
I see you have already met CBF's own version of Clarkson ;)
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Yes I went on one of his walks years ago when I lived in Turkey. Lovely day out and he was a very good guide! Good to see he is alive and well and hasn't changed!
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I see you have already met CBF's own version of Clarkson ;)
Be fair Steve, I'm better value for money than Clarkson. ;)
Yes I went on one of his walks years ago when I lived in Turkey. Lovely day out and he was a very good guide! Good to see he is alive and well and hasn't changed!
And I even showed you how to get back if I remember correctly. ;)
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So now he will go to Sky for megabucks - they have wanted the Top Gear format for years.
As stated on BBC News today, Top Gear is syndicated to the Beeb, so cannot be " sold" to, or otherwise traded off to any other company !! Clarkson owned 50% of the entire Top Gear business, until 2 years ago, when he sold it for an unpublicised sum, many, many £millions , it is believed , but still behaves as though he is the sole owner. The man is a total embarrassment to manners and decorum, and a buffoon !!
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I'm sure SKY could formulate another 'motoring show' for him though (but I wouldn't watch it !!)
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Please sign the reinstatement petition.
Google reinstate Jeremy Clarkson to find.at www.change .org
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I've heard he's already in negotiations to present a revival of "It's A Knockout!"
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Whichever way this develops it's going to cost the BBC millions in lost revenue.
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When I first read about the allegation of Jeremy Clarkson getting upset about the catering I could not help laughing. It reminded me of an episode of "Yes Prime Minister", when Jim Hacker could not get anything to eat and was trying to have a chef employed for his own use.
KKO,yes thank you for your walk. In fact I think I did more than one and arrived back safely.
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Please sign the reinstatement petition.
Google reinstate Jeremy Clarkson to find.at www.change .org
Why ? Please give me one good reason why people should sign.
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Who cares?? I think the most important news today is that Duckenfield has finally admitted he lied 26 years ago. It was only today he said sorry. This is just to save his own skin. He should be jailed.
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Yes, tragic.
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I think the petition's a good idea. We haven't had an accurate idiot count in the country for quite a while.
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Please sign the reinstatement petition.
Google reinstate Jeremy Clarkson to find.at www.change .org
NO CHANCE, and begging on an open forum is jolly bad form, and should not be permitted !!
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Jacqui..Re-- Duckenfield >:( I totally agree plus he should also lose his police pension and repay any pension he has already received >:(
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Do you think that a subject as tragic and heart breaking should be included in a topic about old grumpy Jeremy Clarkson. If this is to be discussed would it be better discussed as a separate topic out of respect for people who lost loved ones on that terrible, terrible day.
No disrespect intended.
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Well i like top gear with him in it ,with him not in it it could end up like the american version what a load of crap that is come back jeremy .
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He's a Marmite character , you either love him or loathe him but he's obviously got a huge fan base.
There is talk of the BBC replacing Top Gear with a show based around Claire Balding where she
selects a team from BBC Managers and they pull stunts on mountain bikes. She claims it would
decimate Top Gear viewing figures, be far safer and more eco friendly. ;) ;)
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What, no horses involved ?
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Neigh.
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The BBC have decided not to renew Clarkson's contract.
Yorkshire Police have asked for the BBC's file on Clarkson with a view to taking action. !!
Stand by for a televised, orchestrated, well attended police raid on Clarkson's home, twice daily
news conferences, press releases, press updates ect.
Senior police officers are constantly telling us they are seriously underfunded and unable to function properly.!!
This is the same police force that organised the Cliff Richard raid .
Total abuse of their powers and a total waste of our resources. >:(
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Top Gear has been on TV for 37 years (yes, really) and has had 20 different presenters. Losing the thug Clarkson and the other two muppets is clearly a disaster and will bring about the ruin the BBC. Did anything else happen today?
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Thug is exactly what he is.
How anyone can defend his actions is totally beyond me.
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i was quite surprised to hear that the first presenter of this programme was Angela Ripon. Well, they could always bring her back ;) ;D
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The guy had a swollen lip, he hasn't complained, he hasn't reported it, Clarkson told his bosses about it.
What has it got to do with the police.? The same police who so badly let down 1,400 white girls.
If they have sufficient funds go and catch the Pakistani gangs that raped and abused these girls.
Some mighty ego's need kicking out the force. Do other members think taking this swollen lip
through the courts, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of our money is the way to go.? I despair.
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James May's description today of the whole sorry saga as a "tragedy", tells you all you should need to know about not only Clarkson but his also co-presenters.
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Clarkson is a loudmouth, allegedly a thug, and arrogant.I am in no way defending him but.!!
Watch top flight professional footballers on TV inflicting intentional injuries on each other.
Watch top flight Rugby players knocking lumps out of each other intentionally, again on TV.
Horrific racial and foulmouthed abuse. And the police are where.?
Don't get me started on Hillsborough or the Birmingham pub bombings.
There is an elite in the police force and the CPS that loathe or envy Stardom/celebrity or
seek their 15 minutes of fame, and I don't wish to fund it.
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Top Gear has been on TV for 37 years (yes, really) and has had 20 different presenters. Losing the thug Clarkson and the other two muppets is clearly a disaster and will bring about the ruin the BBC. Did anything else happen today?
Will I still have to renew my television license ??
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Normally I would try to apply the UBT Iron Law of Indifference to Clarkson and celebrity in general, but with this one I suspect a conspiracy in place. Clarkson checked out last year from the lucrative financial deal he had with the BBC leaving himself on contract salary only, and since then all I see is him trying to get himself sacked so he can, I assume, go away and work for even greater loot for some other TV organisation. This would enable the other two public school type chimps to join him, again for more dosh!! Now let's ignore them to get on at some, probably sky, channel, and get Top Gear back to being a motoring show..... Oh and my choice to present would be Robbie Coltraine, someone who does know about cars.
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I think there's more than a little coincidence that Zayne Malik announces that he's leaving 1 Direction on the same day that Clarkson becomes available for work.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/25/18/26FC5AB100000578-0-image-a-7_1427306754311.jpg)
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Who's Jeremy Clarkson?
JF
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He's the guy on the left with the stiff neck, I think.
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I have to wonder at those who knock jezza on here will be, like the menopausal men and women of Islington who run the bbc today will be holding their hands to the sky at jezzas action only to lower them with their hands out stretched wanting a higher licence fee to replace the fifty million top gear made for bbc worldwide, not forgetting the contacts the bbc has with worldwide broadcasters who will know doubt sue for compensation. If this had been an assault why did the producer not go to the police in the first place instead of wasting A and E time with a fat lip. Proud to have signed the petition.
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Did you just say: he earns a lot of money for the BBC so he is allowed to go around punching people? If not, what did you say - apart from making silly comments about the menopause and Islington?
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If this had been an assault why did the producer not go to the police in the first place instead of wasting A and E time with a fat lip. Proud to have signed the petition.
Clarkson has admitted the assault !
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Who cares either way
It's not even worth commenting on
Er, just wasted two minutes
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It's not even worth commenting on
Said someone who commented.
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It would be worth commenting on if it were your son/brother/father who was physically assaulted at work by a buffoon who thinks he is above things like the law.
Bet nobody of the 1 million plus who voted to save him would have done so had it been their relative or friend who was the victim of this act of bullying in the workplace.
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H it was clarkson himself that reported it in the first place, we all know that. The point I was trying to make was this is a mountain out of a mole hill, and the cost to the licence payer will be high. I expect this will not satisfy those who expect clarkson to be hung,drawn and quartered and you know who you are, as your hobby horses often ridden are being saddled as I type.
The BBC can't fail to notice that the talent has walked in the past, from the likes Eric and ernie to Mr Ross. Etc and I think top gear "talent" will repear with another broadcaster.
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I was encouraged whilst driving to a windy and wet Skye, that a large majority of callers to a radio phone in were in favour of the BBCs' actions.
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A man being interviewed on The BBC today said that Clarkson has been under a lot of stress and had had a really bad day which is why he lashed out.. Poor man. No excuse whatsoever!!... How would it be if we all thumped someone because we had a bad day.. If he had gone home and lamped his wife he would have been arrested... No body should be allowed to attack a work colleague no matter who he or she is..... Money doesn't come into it... The producer was only reluctant to report it because of who Clarkson is...It is doubtful that it will go to court...I am willing to bet that if a petition went round asking if he should be sacked that there would be a damn site more signatures that a million.
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Millions in the bank for driving fast cars and saying words into a camera. Then after another day of that, staying at your favourite luxury hotel that even with all that money, someone else is paying for.
I'm sure many people would like such a stressful day as that.
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I remember when he was on Have I Got News For You. He was annoyed with Ian Hislop and threw a pen at him. The pen pierced Hislop's face and made it bleed.
Apparently, Clarkson apologised to Ian Hislop after the programme.
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It's not even worth commenting on
Said someone who commented.
Taken out of context.
That's a waste of another minute
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It would be worth commenting on if it were your son/brother/father who was physically assaulted at work by a buffoon who thinks he is above things like the law.
Bet nobody of the 1 million plus who voted to save him would have done so had it been their relative or friend who was the victim of this act of bullying in the workplace.
But it wasn't anybody's relative on CBF.
His sacking was a forgone conclusion as the BBC had no choice but to observe the normal rules regarding employee conduct.
We can now look forward to a new "top Gear " which might just be about the cars rather Han the presenter
Another six minutes wasted ( I am a one fingered typist )
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I remember when he was on Have I Got News For You. He was annoyed with Ian Hislop and threw a pen at him. The pen pierced Hislop's face and made it bleed.
Apparently, Clarkson apologised to Ian Hislop after the programme.
I don't remember that being mentioned in Walter Citrine's "A.B.C. of Chairmanship" - the standard work on the subject.
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But it wasn't anybody's relative on CBF.
Oh wasn't it? Let him stay on and bully people we don't know, that's fine.
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But it wasn't anybody's relative on CBF.
Oh wasn't it? Let him stay on and bully people we don't know, that's fine.
Taken out of context. Please read the whole post
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A death threat has been made to the Director General.
And did Clarkson condemn the threats. No. ! His response was "to asked fans to show restraint".
Now I know the world has gone mad. :(
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So, a death threat because someone is annoyed that Clarkson has been sacked.... This is just T.V. !!!!
:o :'(
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No Jacqui, a "death threat" issued because someone is annoyed at the sacking of an overweight, pompous thug is not "just TV" it just shows how pathetic some of his "fans" are >:( they really need to get a life.
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They're just Keyboard Warriors who usually only type with one hand. But, the threat HAS to be taken seriously until it can be firmly established without doubt that it was just talk.
It's another sign of the times that personal protection services is a growing industry being fed by the cuts in funding to police forces. There's a huge market now for well trained Close Protection Officers (CPs).
Interesting though that the papers announced the 'top secret operation' to provide protection on their frontpages.
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Aye steady on us one hand typists!!
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" Your lives in my Index finger ".
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No Jacqui, a "death threat" issued because someone is annoyed at the sacking of an overweight, pompous thug is not "just TV" it just shows how pathetic some of his "fans" are >:( they really need to get a life.
The real tragedy of this sorry story is that there are over a million people who think physical assault should not be a sackable offence. But I agree the "death threat" does indeed add to this and further show how pathetic his fans can be.