Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

it would seem that clarkson hit the other chap twice, and as such that has to be instant death
for bbc to do otherwise would completely undermine any employment policy they might pretend to
indeed, if clarkson did hit the producer not once but twice, he is very lucky not to have been charged

I have not seen that ,however the other fellow has not made a complaint .

However it was ok to keep Jimmy Saville on all those years .

ITV will be knocking on the door, not to mention sky.

Yes they will but i would imagine he can't take that format with him ,i would think there are restrictions .
Bloody pompous BBC , also now you have to put up with all the do gooders talking about the politically incorrect things he said ..makes me so ANGRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and iv'e always said the day the BBC (and it's been talked about) loses Wimbledon is the day i stop buying a license .

it's rather more more than just non-pc ..... it's assault at best and potentially ABH, though there may not be enough hard evidence to stand up in court

Don't be so delicate cynic ,the other fellow is not pressing charges ,clarkson 's not exactly Lennox Lewis is he ? what do you think happens when you tour with a rock band ,their scrapping every night .

And they are all attacking him now for his history of political incorrectness

sorry, but i don't think beeb has or had any choice

They had a choice with Jimmy Saville for god knows how many years but chose to sweep it under the carpet .

sorry but not comparable
js "crimes" were not in the public domain 40 years ago, so anything known about his proclivities were kept closely under wraps
whether or not clarkson set up this whole thing and ensured it came to public notice is an interesting question

Do you think no one at the BBC knew about Saville ???

Anyway i'm out of here before the politically correct crew arrive

What did annoy me was yesterdays Mail On Sunday (which i wouldn't buy) had the headline CLARKSON AS BAD AS SAVILLE which however the story read inside was disgusting .

no; i'm very sure senior management did and it is a racing certainty that it was deliberately kept under wraps for whatever nefarious reasons

as there was no "social media" and the likes of js were seen as being on an untouchable pedestal, no one else saw fit to spill the beans either

Big Mistake by the BBC ,if he goes it's the end of the viewing figures for that show without doubt in my mind .
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top gear is rather more dependent upon clarkson than hignfy was on angus deayton
anyway, if that is the price that has to be paid, then so be it

Whilst JC was undoubtably the perfect man for the job it would be wrong, given what he has alleged to have done, for the BBC to continue as normal, no one person should be allowed to be bigger than the show/programme. This was the problem with JS he was too big a 'star' so his criminality was overlooked/swept under the carpet, does that mean we should do the same with JC's thuggery?
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If I lied like Chairman Snappy of the Confidence Tricksters' Party, or Radio or TV, can I say I "screwed up" and I am a pal of Dodgy Dave's and it is time to move on.

What representatives for modern day toryism.

Not even blush.

No wonder the public will reject the cabal in May.

Would even make the UKIPPER'S embarrassed!


Mind with Wavey Dave's full confidence I don't give him much of chance!

. Hic!

fred - you're writing as if you've been on the piss today ... it reads as pretty much gibberish

chuckle! .... so i take it it was a good lunch then :-)

Manuel,

Lunch time was spent looking for a peg with files and passwords on.

Thank god they were double encrypted.

Found them, weighed myself and found I had lost two stone in weight.


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But you must admit your party is an embarrassment.

Don't know how you dare to go out.