Off Topic Politics Thread

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FFS there is more information to be gathered and carefully considered before any action if any is taken.

I am astonished over this matter given that there are people who would have the presenter dragged into the streets and lynched without first thoroughly investigating the details from both sides fully.

I am also astonished at the parents in this case who thought that going to the Sun with their accusations was in the best interest of their child.

What a rotten squalid little world some people inhabit.

Must be my age but I totally agree.

Of course we should be wary of 'powerful important' people exploiting others, particularly children. However, this looks like a crock of ****.

The BBC are probably right to suspend the 'celebrity' so that due process can be followed, but for pity's sake get on with it.

(By the way I do love this thread for the way that even though the thread is declared 'off-topic' people go way outside even those parameters. There are so many mad people on here - long may it continue!)
 
Things are certainly looking worse for this presenter. The original story may not have been enough to cook his goose, but the hornets nest has been shaken and more nasties are escaping!

I also agree with him not being named, by the way, even though we all know WHO he is.
 
Things are certainly looking worse for this presenter. The original story may not have been enough to cook his goose, but the hornets nest has been shaken and more nasties are escaping!

I also agree with him not being named, by the way, even though we all know WHO he is.

His goose is cooked either way, frankly. They’re out to get him, and he’s been ‘got’, regardless of rights, wrongs and moral murkiness.
 
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Things are certainly looking worse for this presenter. The original story may not have been enough to cook his goose, but the hornets nest has been shaken and more nasties are escaping!

I also agree with him not being named, by the way, even though we all know WHO he is.

I am surprised that no one seems to have any concern for this individual's wife amongst all this fuss.

The other point I feel obliged to make is that, whilst the behaviour may have been ill-judged and the tone of the text messages is suggestive that this person is not a particularly nice individual, I am struggling to see how this is in the public interest. It was pretty much a non-story when everyone was initially assuming it was a bloke pursuing a teenaged girl but I think the fact we are now assuming it is likely to have been a homosexual relationship has seem tje media interest intensify. The age difference must have been unwise and the fact that no one has confirmed at which point the "victim" became of age does make me wonder. If the photos had been shared when they were 18 ( the fact that no criminal act is being reported to have taken place suggests this may be the case), I think the only "issues" are that he cheated on his wife and they he does not consider a 40-year age gap to be an issue. There a plenty of cases of older blokes picking up young "totty" and no one bats an eye-lid. Seeing at the relationship appears to have been gay, I do think there is an issue of double standards.

I am not convinced that this affair is a scandalous as people make out unless the older party had been aware beforehand that the individual had been under-aged. It looks like a massive error of judgment yet I do not feel it is serious enough for him to lose his job. Paying £35k for pictures too just underscores that the presenter's salary has seriously distorted his perception of money.

What I could not help thinking about was the case of David Jones over twenty years ago when it ultimately transpired that the alllegations has been made up by an individual whose credibility should never have been accepted and was ultimately revealed to have had some really serious issues. Whilst not of the same magnitude., this case seems to have originated from a schism in a family prompted by a son's coke habit. The presenter's judgment has clearly been misplaced and he certainly does not come across as pleasant. However, in the light of the war in Ukraine, the migration crisis and all the other issues throughout the world, this news story barely seems worthy and those fellow BBC employees calling for the identity of the presenter to be formally revealed are not more than voyeurs who probably have a work-related axe to grind. For all the protestations about respecting "diversity", at the end of the day the BBC has fallen over this week.
 
I am surprised that no one seems to have any concern for this individual's wife amongst all this fuss.

The other point I feel obliged to make is that, whilst the behaviour may have been ill-judged and the tone of the text messages is suggestive that this person is not a particularly nice individual, I am struggling to see how this is in the public interest. It was pretty much a non-story when everyone was initially assuming it was a bloke pursuing a teenaged girl but I think the fact we are now assuming it is likely to have been a homosexual relationship has seem tje media interest intensify. The age difference must have been unwise and the fact that no one has confirmed at which point the "victim" became of age does make me wonder. If the photos had been shared when they were 18 ( the fact that no criminal act is being reported to have taken place suggests this may be the case), I think the only "issues" are that he cheated on his wife and they he does not consider a 40-year age gap to be an issue. There a plenty of cases of older blokes picking up young "totty" and no one bats an eye-lid. Seeing at the relationship appears to have been gay, I do think there is an issue of double standards.

I am not convinced that this affair is a scandalous as people make out unless the older party had been aware beforehand that the individual had been under-aged. It looks like a massive error of judgment yet I do not feel it is serious enough for him to lose his job. Paying £35k for pictures too just underscores that the presenter's salary has seriously distorted his perception of money.

What I could not help thinking about was the case of David Jones over twenty years ago when it ultimately transpired that the alllegations has been made up by an individual whose credibility should never have been accepted and was ultimately revealed to have had some really serious issues. Whilst not of the same magnitude., this case seems to have originated from a schism in a family prompted by a son's coke habit. The presenter's judgment has clearly been misplaced and he certainly does not come across as pleasant. However, in the light of the war in Ukraine, the migration crisis and all the other issues throughout the world, this news story barely seems worthy and those fellow BBC employees calling for the identity of the presenter to be formally revealed are not more than voyeurs who probably have a work-related axe to grind. For all the protestations about respecting "diversity", at the end of the day the BBC has fallen over this week.
:emoticon-0148-yes: but ... has the BBC behaved badly?
They've suspended someone pending an investigation which involves the police and not revealed the person's identity
What else could they do?