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This Witch doesn't burn
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We love junior colleagues
![]() The idea that she had 'no idea' she was breaking rules, and so many stupid people on FB kept going on about her being in a 'covid secure' restaurant and that no rules were broken as she just had to pee ![]() T WAS an opportunity for revenge on an over-mighty colleague that proved just too good to ignore. When a group of resentful junior production staff at Sky News heard star presenter Kay Burley boast about plans for 60th birthday celebrations which would break strict lockdown rules, they didn’t hesitate to pounce – and set in motion a chain of events that would lead to her being banished from the air for six months, her reputation severely tarnished. As the £600,000-a-year presenter yesterday started an African safari holiday, away from the British spotlight, The Mail on Sunday can reveal the full story of how Burley was the unwitting architect of her own downfall and how she was ambushed in what has been described as the ‘perfect inside-job coup’. The plot by colleagues – long disgruntled by her imperious ways – began when they overheard her talking in advance about last weekend’s night on the tiles, which culminated in her and three other Sky News journalists partying at her home in Knightsbridge, Central London. They secretly recruited a paparazzi photographer to take pictures of Burley breaking lockdown rules and created an encrypted email account to leak the story to the media. For years, Burley, who turns 60 on Thursday, has been the queen of Sky News, having been part of the team since the channel first broadcast in 1989. Hugely professional and respected by her bosses, she has, however, attracted envy among colleagues. Words such as ‘divisive’ and ‘untouchable’ are used about her – as they so often are about successful people. And so it was that nine days ago, at Sky’s vast headquarters in Osterley, West London, that Burley was sharing her excitement about her plans to celebrate her birthday, leaving colleagues in no doubt that she would be dining inside a venue with people from outside her own household. She was overheard explaining that she would be visiting the Century members-only club, a celebrity haunt near Piccadilly Circus, with a group bigger than six. ‘It was a case of boom, this could really bring her down,’ says a source. ‘They thought, “If she gets caught, that would be the end for her.” ’ BURLEY named certain people she had invited, including Beth Rigby, Sky News’s political editor and Burley’s best friend since joining the channel from The Times in 2016. The plotters acted swiftly. Just over 24 hours later, photographers from the top celebrity paparazzi agency Eroteme were in place outside the club, waiting for Burley and her chums. https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?f...an+email+sting
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#102 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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I think she is finished now, can't see her returning
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Likes cars that go boom
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His job was to enforce a government message and he failed, he rendered the whole covid restrictions during lock down requirements toothless. He kept his position and that ended public confidence, nothing they proposed after that had any gravitas with the public.
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I think I mentioned before that The Cummings incident that was overlooked set a precedent for others.... However Kate Burley will find it extremely difficult to execute her tactics in her role after what she has done... unlike Cummings. |
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You are suggesting she can't hold the govt to account for her personal failings and I'm suggesting that the personal failing
(Durham trip) by Cummings by the same token made it almost impossible for the govt to hold the public to account for breaches of lock down rules.
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She can't hold anyone to account now, which was all she ever did ... i can't see her able to do that type of interview ever again
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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...so some colleagues knew of the plans and put the media story it would bring above any public health/safety concerns by trying to prevent the gathering from happening by informing their employers...the whole thing is so distasteful, their actions as well...which seem quite reprehensible also...the prime concern would have been informing for public safety, surely...
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Exactly that is the point Rusti, Cummings is not interviewing MPs or trying to get them on the back foot which is her reason for being on Sky
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Deny, Defend, Depose.
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She's pretty hot for 60 though, I have to say.
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Deny, Defend, Depose.
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£600k a year.... for that.
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Let’s see if she also breaks the self isolation rules as well now !
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ew-strain.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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This Witch doesn't burn
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Maybe they have raised concerns previously and were ignored, she is known as ‘untouchable’
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[Suspended Sky News presenter Kay Burley is forced
to self-isolate after flying back from South Africa as government issues new quarantine measures to stop spread of mutant Covid strain ] Yes she picked the Wrong African nation. Last edited by arista; 24-12-2020 at 09:07 AM. |
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