Stive Pesley

The one thing that really irritates me is that the away team’s national anthem is booed at Wembley.  It’s incredibly disrespectful.

Funnily enough they have created the sort of country that many would want to see here. Detached, nationalist island, strictly controlled borders isolationism - and almost no covid restrictions
 
 

That must be the oldest new joke ever!

We beat Germany. Before the game we were going to get battered. Then after the game, it's a poor German side. Some people just don't like England. Our group was actually one of the harder groups. Croatia took Spain to extra time and Czech Republic made it to the quarter finals. But again it's an 'easy run.' 
Makes me laugh how people are piping up saying that Sterling dived for the penalty and hoping Italy batter us. Are we suddenly forgetting that Italy are the biggest cheaters in this tournament! Some of their antics, it's a joke. But it doesn't get spoken about because people want England to fail. 

Spot on. There's an agenda against England and people can't even hide it. Whatever the team do, whatever Southgate does, they never seem to get the credit from some. I said before the tournament, even if England manage to win it, there'll be some people out there who find a way to discredit it. It's embarrassing really.

Hmmmnoit the inventor exactly, but I can see why people would want to believe that and repeat it ad nauseam
 I found this online which paints a more balanced picture than the video you posted (which was essentially antivax people trying to amplify every little negative or cautious thing Malone said).
 
 
 
 

Hmmmnoit the inventor exactly, but I can see why people would want to believe that and repeat it ad nauseam
 I found this online which paints a more balanced picture than the video you posted (which was essentially antivax people trying to amplify every little negative or cautious thing Malone said).
 
 
 
 

I've seen a few people using the variant/mutation idea as a reason to maintain restrictions. Their theory being that the more cases we have, the more chance the virus has to mutate 
Whilst that latter point is true - I'm pretty sure that the behaviour of virus mutation is usually towards easier transmission/replication and not towards becoming more deadly

I've seen a few people using the variant/mutation idea as a reason to maintain restrictions. Their theory being that the more cases we have, the more chance the virus has to mutate 
Whilst that latter point is true - I'm pretty sure that the behaviour of virus mutation is usually towards easier transmission/replication and not towards becoming more deadly

I've seen a few people using the variant/mutation idea as a reason to maintain restrictions. Their theory being that the more cases we have, the more chance the virus has to mutate 
Whilst that latter point is true - I'm pretty sure that the behaviour of virus mutation is usually towards easier transmission/replication and not towards becoming more deadly

Well I think that all people should wear masks forever. And whilst by themselves at home. And if anyone doesn't feel absolutely 100% they should refuse to go to work. Only then we will be safe.
(I don't think this at all, but I can pretend I do if you want, so you have the argument you clearly want)

This all depends on what happens to the rules around isolation in the event of a positive test. Under the current rules yes - a good point, which people already started to report around hospitality places being closed when on holiday because they have no staff who aren't isolating. Extrapolate it out and you start to see the problem
This is why pre-vaccinations, the anti-lockdown idea of "leaving it to people's common sense" held no water. You would have ended up with the freedom to go to shops/go on holiday/go to the pub - but a huge chunk of the service staff required to enable these activities would be isolating
 
So what does the future look like? I think now that mass vaccination appears to have weakened the link between cases and deaths - then enforced/mandatory isolation of contacts has to be reconsidered. "Freedom" won't function otherwise
Maybe we're back to Boris Johnson's original comment over a year ago "do we just let it burn through the population to achieve herd immunity?"
 
 
 

That might be the narrative that certain media outlets are plying for clicks but I really don't see that. Nobody I've spoken to is of the view that coverings should be required or widely mandated.

I don’t know it, but the land remediation costs of a former gas works would be huge. More straightforward to offer the site to another ‘contaminator’ selling pollutant and noxious liquid. Clever to tack a new petrol station on too.

JHB should have more people on who don't agree with her viewpoint but I think she got to the point of bullying them so much none of them dared come onto her show.

This is the main point isn't it? They are a private company and absolutely free to sack him if they want. 
His specific actions aren't why he was sacked - you don't get sacked for getting a bit drunk and annoying a stranger in a park
But when that stranger is a well-recognised public figure and those actions become national news and your face is everywhere, the company has a solid case in employment law for you bringing their name into disrepute
https://www.davidsonmorris.com/bringing-the-company-into-disrepute/
Estate Agents are the professional income-generating front of the business. They are the salesmen. I wouldn't want this guy fronting a business that I ran after doing something so idiotic that it became national news
 

Me too and we're due to go to Crete in August! 

This is the main point isn't it? They are a private company and absolutely free to sack him if they want. 
His specific actions aren't why he was sacked - you don't get sacked for getting a bit drunk and annoying a stranger in a park
But when that stranger is a well-recognised public figure and those actions become national news and your face is everywhere, the company has a solid case in employment law for you bringing their name into disrepute
https://www.davidsonmorris.com/bringing-the-company-into-disrepute/
Estate Agents are the professional income-generating front of the business. They are the salesmen. I wouldn't want this guy fronting a business that I ran after doing something so idiotic that it became national news
 

Same here - my first was 4120Z003 but my second was from a batch not on the naughty list
FFS Boris!
 
 

That was a 'pilot event' though which Covid knows to avoid. 
 

Haha - you are correct, I should have phrased it slightly differently "free to *try* and sack him" - and he is free to bring an unfair dismissal claim against them
If they acted before it was national news then that doesn't reflect well on them. 
My gut feeling would be that he wouldn't want to dwell on it any longer than necessary. An unfair dismissal case only brings more attention to what a nob he was. Even if he's proved right in the eyes of the law it won't change that

Haha - you are correct, I should have phrased it slightly differently "free to *try* and sack him" - and he is free to bring an unfair dismissal claim against them
If they acted before it was national news then that doesn't reflect well on them. 
My gut feeling would be that he wouldn't want to dwell on it any longer than necessary. An unfair dismissal case only brings more attention to what a nob he was. Even if he's proved right in the eyes of the law it won't change that

This is the main point isn't it? They are a private company and absolutely free to sack him if they want. 
His specific actions aren't why he was sacked - you don't get sacked for getting a bit drunk and annoying a stranger in a park
But when that stranger is a well-recognised public figure and those actions become national news and your face is everywhere, the company has a solid case in employment law for you bringing their name into disrepute
https://www.davidsonmorris.com/bringing-the-company-into-disrepute/
Estate Agents are the professional income-generating front of the business. They are the salesmen. I wouldn't want this guy fronting a business that I ran after doing something so idiotic that it became national news
 

No they are not absolutely free to sack him. He has employment rights as much as anyone. Hark at us arguing the polar opposite to our normal political leanings. You right wing activist you.
As far as bringing the company into disrepute, I am led to understand that they acted before his name made the national press. I heard a senior employment lawyer yesterday saying that the company acted too quickly and that would not be seen to well at a tribunal. Also that bringing the company into disrepute is not easy to prove and very difficult when not on company time.
Saying that, I would not want him working for me but an employer has to follow the law and sometimes the law is a ass.

I was at a local pub gig in a beer garden last weekend - all done to "the rules"
socially distanced tables, no standing, and no singing along - capacity of about 50-60 people in the audience
Then two days later you see Wembley with 40,000 fans in it, all over each other singing their heads off
Something not right in there somewhere...