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Owen Hunter
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Did Jeremy Clarkson go too far with his comments about strikers?

Yes, it was offensive  24.49%  (6,664 votes)
 
No, he was obviously joking  75.51%  (20,543 votes)
   
Total Votes: 27,207. at present.


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A comment from a poster called David:

I wonder how many of the people baying for Clarkson to be sacked actually saw the interview.  I’d hazard a guess at not many.  Most will have jumped on the bandwagon after hearing about it thirdhand or seeing edited clips hours after the event.  And of those who did see it, I wonder how many actually understood what he was saying.  He basically gave two opinions of the same subject to appease the BBC’s ’everything must be balanced’ stance.  The first was; how nice it was in London and what a good idea it was to go on strike.  And the second was the opposite view - to create a balance!  Unfortunately, most people have chosen to forget the first bit.  And "legal action" ?.............................best joke in ages!
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The Top Gear host once wrote a spit-frothing column saying everyone is thinking of buggering off because Britain is stuffed. “They see the stupid war on drugs and the war on drink and the war on smoking and the war on hunting and the war on fun and the war on scientists and the obsession with the climate and the price of train fares soaring past £1000 and the Guardian power-brokers getting uppity about one shot baboon and not uppity at all about all the dead soldiers in Afghanistan, and how they got rid of Blair only to find the lying twerp is now going to come back even more powerful than ever, and they think, ‘I’ve had enough of this. I’m off.’”

Whew, that was just one sentence. Come to live with us, Jezza, your blood pressure will thank you. Admittedly, Clarkson says he can’t move to New Zealand because we don’t take people over 40, [which is factually incorrect] but I’m sure we can find an “unless they’re blindingly funny" clause in the immigration rules. And it’s not as if there is anywhere else he fancies. “You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for ‘organising’ a plumber.”

So you see, Jezza has done it all before, but it would seem there has been yet more erosion of the humour, if they ever had any, of the PC mind control freaks.
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Should Unison take this to court the only sure winners will be the lawyers. As this will involve the BBC it will be QCs and not your average legal aid type. Even if Unison wins there will probably be appeals, counter appeals etc in the legal game of who runs out of money first.

A few years ago down here a tv and radio so called personality described the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a "cheeky darky" on air and kept his job.

Another tv presenter, talking about an Indian diplomat by the name of Sheila Dickshit said her name exactly as it is spelt and got sacked.  The pc brigade gave all sorts of ways that the name should have been pronounced but it turned out the the sacked presenter pronounced it correctly.


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Quoting: Gerard Grout
Should Unison take this to court the only sure winners will be the lawyers. As this will involve the BBC it will be QCs and not your average legal aid type. Even if Unison wins there will probably be appeals, counter appeals etc in the legal game of who runs out of money first.

A few years ago down here a tv and radio so called personality described the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a "cheeky darky" on air and kept his job.

Another tv presenter, talking about an Indian diplomat by the name of Sheila Dickshit said her name exactly as it is spelt and got sacked.  The pc brigade gave all sorts of ways that the name should have been pronounced but it turned out the the sacked presenter pronounced it correctly.





Alright Gerard, I think Unison is shooting it’s self in the foot by pushing on what was obviously a joke. As it stands 62% of the British public (according to the polls) support the strike their reaction to Clarkson will only serve to make them look petty & may errode that support.

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