Clarkson cleared by Ofcom

[Six Fiend]

I did a search first but the search is a bit pants at the moment. Anyhow, some common sense is alive in the world...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17094...

[bad company]

Yes I was pleased but then I generally agree with Clarkson's views.

[Simbu]

Not really a surprise. There weren't 31,000 offendees, only 31,000 sheep willing to do what their union masters told them to do.

The most depressing part of that story is that my taxes are paying for 31,000 idiots who can't or won't think for themselves.

[EDLT]

Ofcom, unlike the people who complained, probably watched the entire interview.

[mybrainhurts]

Can we shoot them now...?

[perdu]

I wonder if he wasted a day with a "carefully selected Care Assistant"?

Claptrap from start to finish

I believe I should "MEH" at this point

yes meh is just right IMO

A day with someone looking after anyone is hardly likely to influence me, let alone the fabled Jezza!

[W124Bob]

My wife spent 6months recently as a care assistant,JC would probably get on very well with nearly all the elderly my wife met in that time.My wife on the otherhand can't stand him,my you she did live in Barnsley in the late 80's!

[louiebaby]

EDLT said:

Ofcom, unlike the people who complained, probably watched the entire interview.

That's the whole thing summarised. Perfectly. The whole thing has been a non-story from the start.

[Apache]

louiebaby said:

EDLT said:

Ofcom, unlike the people who complained, probably watched the entire interview.

That's the whole thing summarised. Perfectly. The whole thing has been a non-story from the start.

agreed, it was a pitiful excuse for a whinge

[Digga]

Apache said:

louiebaby said:

EDLT said:

Ofcom, unlike the people who complained, probably watched the entire interview.

That's the whole thing summarised. Perfectly. The whole thing has been a non-story from the start.

agreed, it was a pitiful excuse for a whinge

And a good opportunity for Unison to demonstrate quite how detached from reality (and utility) they are.

[Getragdogleg]

The bit that made me chuckle was "Unison invited mr Clarckson to spend the day with a healthcare assistant" Why healthcare ? is it because that is a noble decent end of the public sector and is therefore going to be a humbling experience for him ?

No, they want to put him with a healthcare assistant because putting him with a road planner or chief executive would just re-enforce the idea that a great swathe of the public sector exist only to keep themselves in a job.

Seriously, if you are going to invite him to spend a day with a public sector employee then at least let him choose which area is most relevant to the accusation of irrelevance he implied with his original statement.

[Disgusted]

Getragdogleg said:

The bit that made me chuckle was "Unison invited mr Clarckson to spend the day with a healthcare assistant" Why healthcare ? is it because that is a noble decent end of the public sector and is therefore going to be a humbling experience for him ?

No, they want to put him with a healthcare assistant because putting him with a road planner or chief executive would just re-enforce the idea that a great swathe of the public sector exist only to keep themselves in a job.

Seriously, if you are going to invite him to spend a day with a public sector employee then at least let him choose which area is most relevant to the accusation of irrelevance he implied with his original statement.

A day with a Diversity Coordinator in Tower Hamlets would have been a laugh.

[mybrainhurts]

Apache said:

agreed, it was a pitiful excuse for a whinge

But a useful reminder that some union leaders are as thick as pigst and twice as nasty...

[Digga]

mybrainhurts said:

Apache said:

agreed, it was a pitiful excuse for a whinge

But a useful reminder that some union leaders are as thick as pigst and twice as nasty...

And let us not forget that the incident took place in the very same week that representative of the very same Union were sending bullying emails to non-striking workers calling them scabs and, effectively, damning them for using their democratic right to ignore the industrial action. s.

[FourWheelDrift]

mybrainhurts said:

Can we shoot them now...?

We don't have 31,000 bullets left in supplies. We could burn them? Or what about a good old fashioned stoning.

[Mikeyboy]

BBc news repeated the out of context comment that caused the problem in the first place and then said he had got off.

Somewhat delivered in a style that implied that his own employers didn't want him to have got off.

[Digga]

Mikeyboy said:

BBc news repeated the out of context comment that caused the problem in the first place and then said he had got off.

Somewhat delivered in a style that implied that his own employers didn't want him to have got off.

They are hopeless spackers aren't they? Just cannot help themselves.

[KrazyIvan]

Dear god, what in the world were they thinking, using common sense like that

[0000]

Mikeyboy said:

BBc news repeated the out of context comment that caused the problem in the first place and then said he had got off.

Somewhat delivered in a style that implied that his own employers didn't want him to have got off.

I do get the impression that the BBC can't afford to lose Clarkson, but that they absolutely detest that he's popular enough for that situation to be so.

[Apache]

0000 said:

Mikeyboy said:

BBc news repeated the out of context comment that caused the problem in the first place and then said he had got off.

Somewhat delivered in a style that implied that his own employers didn't want him to have got off.

I do get the impression that the BBC can't afford to lose Clarkson, but that they absolutely detest that he's popular enough for that situation to be so.

I imagine so, he's as politically correct as George Galloway on speed and every time he opens his mouth it diminishes their pensions investments