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Presenter Kay Burley taken off the air by SKY news

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Urmstongran Tue 08-Dec-20 23:04:44

She was replaced by another presenter this morning. She broke Covid rules by having a 60th pre-birthday bash with a dozen SKY colleagues in a London restaurant & then continued the party at her home.

She’s apologised profusely for ‘inadvertently’ breaching the rules.

SKY news say she won’t be back until next year.

Beth Rigby was there too. They’ve given a hard line to other rule breakers ‘are you going to resign over this?’ for similar breaches.

Wonder if she’ll resign? No, I don’t think so either ...

Lexisgranny Thu 10-Dec-20 13:07:00

A thought just occurred to me. Why wouldn’t the original restaurant allow Kay Burley to go back in to “use their facilities” whilst waiting for a taxi. It would seem that a party of 10 would have run up a sizeable bill, and would have expected some consideration.

paddyanne Thu 10-Dec-20 15:44:04

Margaret Ferrier was kicked out of her party,Cath Calderhead lost her job ....that didn't happen to ANY of the tories who broke the rules and there were many .Tell me again how we're all in this together?

Lucca Thu 10-Dec-20 15:49:08

Mamardoit

I think you are correct about MPs unfortunately. That is why the MP for Peterborough was able to remain an MP and vote even though she done time in prison.

So nicola sturgeon not to be blamed for not “ sacking” Margaret ferrier then ??

welbeck Thu 10-Dec-20 16:25:04

news just in:
she has agreed to be off air for 6 months.
two colleagues, beth rigby and inzamam rashid have agreed to be off air for 3 months.

Vickysponge Thu 10-Dec-20 16:33:34

welbeck

news just in:
she has agreed to be off air for 6 months.
two colleagues, beth rigby and inzamam rashid have agreed to be off air for 3 months.

Not enough! They should be sacked!

EllanVannin Thu 10-Dec-20 16:35:44

Surly Burley won't be missed.

Glorybee Thu 10-Dec-20 16:37:54

Agreed? That was nice of them!

Pantglas2 Thu 10-Dec-20 16:51:13

paddyanne

Margaret Ferrier was kicked out of her party,Cath Calderhead lost her job ....that didn't happen to ANY of the tories who broke the rules and there were many .Tell me again how we're all in this together?

It also didn’t happen to Stephen Kinnock, Vaughan Gething, Jeremy Corbyn et al..... what selective memories folks have!

Urmstongran Thu 10-Dec-20 17:31:26

Well, well.

6 months suspension from SKY for Kay Burley.
And 3 months suspension for Beth Rigby & the others.

MayBee70 Thu 10-Dec-20 17:38:23

Lexisgranny: I totally agree with you. I’m just trying to get into the mindset of supposedly intelligent people to try to make sense of it. I probably feel more let down/angry/disappointed than a lot of people because I did really enjoy seeing them on Sky News.

varian Thu 10-Dec-20 18:05:07

Perhaps the notion of British exceptionalism gives some of the London elites permission in their own minds to disobey the rules that were obviously never meant to apply to them.

Mamardoit Thu 10-Dec-20 18:32:00

Lucca

Mamardoit

I think you are correct about MPs unfortunately. That is why the MP for Peterborough was able to remain an MP and vote even though she done time in prison.

So nicola sturgeon not to be blamed for not “ sacking” Margaret ferrier then ??

Do you make a habit of moderating posts??

Mamardoit Thu 10-Dec-20 18:39:51

Sorry I may have miss understood Lucca's post. Pity we dont have a delete function.

V3ra Thu 10-Dec-20 18:48:53

Mamardoit you can report your own post and ask for it to be deleted.

Namsnanny Wed 16-Dec-20 14:34:14

Of course the suspension is on full pay!

Lucca Wed 16-Dec-20 17:17:34

Mamardoit. Originally I was querying your comment referring to nicola sturgeon as cranky and saying she hadn’t “sacked” Margaret Ferrier. I guess from memory my second post was maybe asking you to agree that nicola sturgeon was not to blame ?
I don’t think I was “moderating”.