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As I say, it's a slippery slope. Theres lots of moral high ground being taken. I have no sympathy for the individual, but when people are sacked for opinions that dont break the law, I think it leads to a bad place. As I've said earlier, free speech is the cornerstone of democracy and it's being eroded. That worries me.

 

It’s free speech with responsibility he has had his say so has his partner and they are being judged on it and it has been found offensive

 

Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, what if the person that organised this banner was your child's teacher. Would that change your opinion about their continuing employment?

 

What engineering company wants to have an employee on its books who admits to getting 'cocked up'?

 

The idiot has lost his job and will be banned from watching his team for life. I wonder if he thinks his stupid stunt was worth it now?

 

No worries David Lammy will be on tv today telling us it was just high spirits after observing lock down for several week.
And Dominic Cummings is the bogey man get a grip.

 

But but but theyre so oppressed your honour.

 

Coppers keep on bending their knee to them and they're bound to see it as a weakness, as do all of us....

 

That's not strictly true, anyone can take their employer to an unfair dismissal tribunal because there are a huge range of exceptions to the 2 year rule that makes it pretty much redundant. It's certainly a lower risk though for employers dismissing anyone serving less than 2 years but there's absolutely no guarantees.

Do we know if the bloke in question has served less than two years or the reasons given for his sacking? I'm just wondering if this debate is irrelevant anyway?

 

I think huge is a bit of an exaggeration


Automatically unfair reasons for dismissal
Even if you’ve acted reasonably, some reasons for dismissal are classed automatically unfair. These are to do with the following areas:

• pregnancy, including all reasons relating to maternity
• family, including parental leave, paternity leave (birth and adoption), adoption leave or time off for dependants
• acting as an employee representative
• acting as a trade union representative
• acting as an occupational pension scheme trustee
• joining or not joining a trade union
• being a part-time or fixed-term employee
• pay and working hours, including the Working Time Regulations, annual leave and the National Minimum Wage
• whistleblowing

 

That seems a very short list? I realize you've googled it but you don't have to be legally educated to realize there's some glaring omissions.

 

iirc if youve been there less than a year they can just bin you off, was brought in by camerons government.

edit: less than 2 years and you have no right to claim unfair dismissal

 

I’m done with Sky. No attempt at balance in any of their reporting on this vitally important subject. The part of a mainstream media narrative that’s making the problem worse.

Talk Radio interviewed Kevin Hurley yesterday and actually gave him the time to air his views.

 

It's because they scared as we are of uncontrolled immigration legal or otherwise and uncontrolled protests, rioting and lawlessness in general.
This government has a strong enough majority to carry their policies through and would have the backing of a large majority of decent people...

 

I'm not sure the Tories are prepared to go along with taking the press and other media on, remember when Labour tried to get papers to be more responsible with their reporting (phone tapping etc) or the law might be changed to control the media the Tories were very much against it and eventually the all clear was given for the media to self regulate.

 

What about when you want a kebab an your in Burnley?

 

White takeaways matter.

 

Not allowed , people like Anthony Joshua and Lewis Hamilton are promoting this idea . So if somebody said ok fine with that , but the day after every white person in the country boycoted black owned shops and services their would be uproar .

 

Well I have certainly been doing my bit for BPD been in three shops today and not one owned by a white person.