(21-05-21, 01:19 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: [quote author=Grahamm link=topic=22082.msg325433#msg325433 date=1621596507]
"GB News" is going to be the UK equivalent of Fox. Is it[/quote]
"Andrew Neil reveals politics team for GB News channel. Reporter from right-wing Guido Fawkes website joins line-up"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media...04566.html
Oh, and, yes, "GB News chiefs have warned against “false imagining” of the channel as a British version of the opinion-led, right-wing US network Fox News", but given that Fox considers itself "Fair and Balanced", I think I'll take that with a large pinch of salt!
Quote: I don't actually care if my news is biased left or right but what I do care about is when a broadcaster is biased but hides behind a veil of neutrality. Sounds to me like GB news is going to be about proper debate from both sides. Can only be healthy.
"Proper debate" is not "Here's Mr X talking about the racist abuse he's experienced and here's Mr Y of the KKK to present the other side of the argument"!
21-05-21, 07:01 PM
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21-05-21, 08:27 PM
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Won't watch any channel where the newscaster wears a shredded wheat on top of his head 
Channel 4 News and Newsnight for me. They both ask difficult questions
21-05-21, 09:15 PM
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22-05-21, 09:37 AM
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I said Quote:"I don't actually care if my news is biased left or right but what I do care about is when a broadcaster is biased but hides behind a veil of neutrality. Sounds to me like GB news is going to be about proper debate from both sides. Can only be healthy."
Then your reply was
(21-05-21, 05:12 PM)Grahamm link Wrote: "Proper debate" is not "Here's Mr X talking about the racist abuse he's experienced and here's Mr Y of the KKK to present the other side of the argument"! How can you make such a wild jump to end up at such an extreme outcome.
I only learned about GB news from people kicking off about it - so I tried to find it and have a look for myself, only to find its not even on air yet. Very odd.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
22-05-21, 10:13 AM
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I just got a job in a factory making plastic Draculas
There are only two of us on the production line, so I have to make every second count
30-05-21, 01:46 PM
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Quote: I've never warmed to anyone that wears comedy socks and ties as a substitute for a sense of humour
Just a fan of comedy haircuts then
(30-05-21, 07:54 PM)mtread link Wrote: Quote: I've never warmed to anyone that wears comedy socks and ties as a substitute for a sense of humour
Just a fan of comedy haircuts then you probably never minded Arther Scargils hair did you.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
30-05-21, 08:50 PM
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30-05-21, 08:52 PM
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Quote: On a technicality I'd dispute that wire wool counts as 'hair'
I was thinking more of that blond buffoon who ruffles his hair up before every interview, in order to attempt to be 'amusing'.
In other words, he just wants cheap staff, wherever they come from :rolleyes
I haven't set foot in a Wetherspoons since 2016
02-06-21, 12:22 PM
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(02-06-21, 11:39 AM)Grahamm link Wrote: Another one from the "You just CANNOT make this shit up!" file...
Wetherspoons boss calls for more EU migration as bars and restaurants tackle staff shortage
:rolleyes Cannot afford the paywall but from what is available sounds perfectly on message with brexit to me
"immigration system' controlled by the UK - rather than the EU -"
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
Quote: They were saying yesterday that the labour shortage is due to the furlough scheme. Ie people are happy to stay on 80% to do nothing. Once travel/parking/lunch etc...costs are deducted they're not much worse off apparently.
Except of course, the decision to furlough and when to end furlough, is made by the employer, not the employee.
02-06-21, 01:52 PM
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02-06-21, 02:49 PM
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Quote: I stand corrected if I'm wrong, but doesn't the employee have to agree to being taken off furlough?
Not as a right. Normal contract of employment rules apply. You would have to prove that the circumstances prevented you returning to the workplace ie that the workplace is unsafe. Otherwise you run the risk of dismissal.
https://www.daslaw.co.uk/blog/covid-19-e...rn-to-work[size=78%] [/size]
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