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13-03-2023, 01:26 PM | #26 | |||
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13-03-2023, 01:33 PM | #27 | |||
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Sadly in the 70s men did hit their wives, it wasnt such a big deal then
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13-03-2023, 01:40 PM | #28 | |||
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13-03-2023, 01:41 PM | #29 | |||
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The idea that wife beating was ever "the norm" is just not true. It was common and more openly common. It's still common behind closed doors. None of it is any sort of excuse. |
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13-03-2023, 01:41 PM | #30 | ||
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Spot on 100% right. She was appalling. Whether he broke her nose by accident is immaterial. How she came to break her nose by his actions are the real relevant points. She did set out to minimalise it. |
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13-03-2023, 01:43 PM | #31 | |||
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fun fact I once met Fiona Bruce whilst playing golf, she was charming
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13-03-2023, 01:47 PM | #32 | |||
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13-03-2023, 02:13 PM | #33 | ||
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She's absolutely awful as presenter of QT.
Although that programme is now maybe beyond making in any way good again by anyone. She's always struck me as being false. Smiling to your face. Then possibly snarling about you behind your back. |
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15-03-2023, 09:22 AM | #34 | |||
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All she did was read a prepared statement from BBC producers
She should not have resigned from the charity |
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15-03-2023, 09:31 AM | #35 | |||
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15-03-2023, 09:48 AM | #36 | ||
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Up to this moment in time.
I don't see or hear the Charity calling for her to stay or come back. So possibly they were as stunned by the stance she took too as anyone else would be who abhors any kind of domestic abuse, or, who has suffered because of it. The problem with Bruce is, she can't set aside her own political leanings. Which is fine absolutely EXCEPT when you're supposed to be the chair of a political programme across the political spectrum and therefore chairing a heated debate too. Last edited by joeysteele; 15-03-2023 at 09:49 AM. |
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15-03-2023, 10:34 AM | #37 | |||
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these days, it takes just one wrong word and you are a goner, that's the sad reality. Fiona Bruce is in the spotlight because a vocal proportion of viewers don't like her politics, the same with Gary Lineker. This impartiality clause is not going away and it will ultimately lead to the end of a licence fee supported public broadcaster.
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15-03-2023, 10:36 AM | #38 | |||
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15-03-2023, 10:49 AM | #39 | |||
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15-03-2023, 11:42 AM | #40 | ||
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15-03-2023, 11:45 AM | #41 | |||
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15-03-2023, 11:54 AM | #42 | ||
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People would have been outraged if she was suspended for not reading out a line that underplayed domestic violence and she would have been reinstated with the BBC licking their wounds. I have less sympathy for her for making that choice when she could have done things differently that didn't undermine what she apparently believes in. |
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15-03-2023, 11:57 AM | #43 | ||
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IF it was a prepared statement by a BBC producer. ' IF' I add.
She really out of loyalty to the charity she claims to be so fond of. She ought to have clarified she's been TOLD to read this out. How did she know Yasmin Alibhai Brown was going to make such an issue of the domestic violence claim on Johnson senior. Why then too close it down to further discussion too. Claiming it was only a one off incident according to Johnson's Father's friends words. No need whatsoever to minimise the abuse just because it was a one off. She WAS the chair. She IS the authority in that chairing of the programme. She showed more her own true colours as she usually does. Because she's frankly hopeless as the chair of Question Time, has been all through. She cannot hide her political leaning. Dimbleby had many faults however he was vastly superior to Bruce. |
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