Re: Carole Thatchter
 

I don't dislike Carole Thatcher. and if anything feel sorry for her -having Maggie as a mother must be a cross to bare and at least, unlike her brother Sir Mark, she hasn't (as yet) tried to organise a coup in an African country. But she should have been more careful in what she said in the Green Room.
About 12 months ago my daughter was in London (en route to a union meeting) and she was sat near to Carole Thathcher on the Tube - she was very tempted to say to her 'My mother hates your mother'.

For Andrew (before he gets any ideas that my daughter was abusing expenses by travelling to London) my daughter lives in Kent and the regional office of her union is in London.

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

I would imagine she's got used to that by now!

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

If anyone should be sacked it's the oversensitive, mard-arse Adrian Chiles, who was allegedly offended by whatever Carol Thatcher said. I hope West Brom are relegated.:D

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

I find Adrian Chiles's Brummy accent offensive, and his million pound salary.:D

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

Anyone that grasses a fellow worker up should be shot.It's just not British.:uzi:

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

...unless that worker is stealing all the company assests, and there's a possibility you might not get paid that month, or might lose your job altogether if the firm closes.

Then it's ok to grass, before shooting them.;)

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

comment was much less offensive than n aussie calling me a pommie barsteward, n i do not find that offensive. far more offensive than her comment is what "Ross" got away with,in my book. much ado about nowt in my book.:rolleyes:

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

I would imagine that families with young children would find it far more offensive for the "f---" word to be broadcast at 6.55 just as they were sitting down to their breakfasts, as it was this morning on BBC1.

Reckon the BBC are losing it somewhat.

Re: Carole Thatcher
 

Well they did make a grovelling apology as the show was closing at 9-15, the thing is Carole didn't actually call the tennis player a Golliwog, she said his hair resemble that of a Golliwog, which makes it even more ridiculous

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

i might have misheard ,but i think David Platt came out with that word on Corrie,,,cor that was supposed to be a family show

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

It just gets worse for the Beeb...now Clarkson has called Gord "a one-eyed Scottish idiot".

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

I think it's about time we had a reasonable BBC licence fee. It's a tax, lets be honest. Why are we not paying for it based on income?

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

Means tests need admin - the costs of administering such fees would use up a big chunk of whatever fees were gathered - not economic to do that

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

Not really economic for a poor family to pay as much as a rich one to get vital news information..

Re: Carole Thatchter
 

Having spent a large chunk of my career applying means tests - just take my word for it - assessing each individual family's ability to pay would cost so much that the actual fee would go through the roof and the poorest families would pay more than they pay now

PS and there would have to be a staffed fraud dept for the ones who lie