clarkson suspended by BBC

[MaryPoppins]

This is it. Its no longer entertaining.

Im not arsed if BBC sack clarkson or even the show, I dont watch it any more.

+1

[d000hg]

Its very hard to sack people on the spot (any HR lawyer will tell you its a bad idea). You suspend on full pay and follow due process then sack them

Its cheaper to pay the weeks salary than to deal with the tribunal...

Surely a punch, if observed by a witness or two, is the very definition of Gross Misconduct?

[BlasterBates]

bring back Jimmy Saville ......


oh hang on...

[eek]

Surely a punch, if observed by a witness or two, is the very definition of Gross Misconduct?

Which is a reason to eventually sack him. Just don't do it immediately as you really want to do things exactly by the book....

[scooterscot]

I heard Jeremy threw a punch because his lunch was late? And on that bombshell...

If Clarkson is up for misconduct Alex Ferguson is shurly up for his umpteenth custodial sentence by now.

[DodgyAgent]

A thug is someone who wears a knuckle duster and makes sure he breaks your nose, not someone who loses his temper and swings a punch.

Still a good opportunity for pink tie wearing lefties to get on their soap boxes and get Top Gear replaced by Blue Peter.

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[OwlHoot]

God, all the bleeding hearts whining about how they like him and therefore it's not fair of the BBC to suspend him

He punched somebody he works with. Of course he should be suspended over it, at the very least. In any normal workplace, he'd be sacked on the spot for that, and the police would probably be involved. The BBC are going bloody easy on him.

(Possible stupid question alert .. )

Do we know he actually punched somebody, or was it just a public shouting match?

I've contracted at the BBC, and I know just how tiresomely arrogant and willfuly obstructive some of the jobsworths are there

[CloudWalker]

who's signed the petition then?

https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

[EternalOptimist]

A lot of the people calling for his head thought it was great when Prescott gobbed an egg thrower in an election campaign, and they howled with laughter at the thought of Bobble eye Brown gobbing 'posh boy' Cameron in the first election debate.

It's interesting to note that the BBC journalists who blew open the J Saville story are quietly being sacked or demoted

[BlasterBates]

Do we now have a new generation who've never thrown a punch ?

what's going on....?