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Talk Sports squeaky voiced Right Wing shock Jock suspended for calling a Counciller a Nazi :D

Gaunty has to be a favourite of most Daily Mail readers. I see this as a strike back at the knob heads who got Brand and Ross taken off the air.

This war hasn't ended! no Radio Presenter is safe from the complaing hordes.. Wogan,Moyles,Blackburn,Diddy David Hamilton had all better watch out..


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3416778/Radio-talk-show-host-John-Gaunt--suspending-after-Nazi-comment.html

yay, gaunt's a pirze twat!

Agreed, but FFS it like the Salem witch hunt for TV/Radio presenters right now.

Clarkson was in the firing line again today for hand gesturing to a cop, and last week after joking about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes.

Neither may be funny to certain people, but who the fuck employed them as the morality police.

Gaunt's more your Sun/Express watermark than Daily Mail I think. But he is a dick, nonetheless

if its not already been posted we should get oxford scummer cunt Jim Rosenthal suspended/sacked for this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzmhXuUlNi8

for what exactly?

racalisticism

cant say "spear chucker" when talking about a black in 2008

BBC Bristol sacked some doris today for ordering a taxi but requesting an English driver. Racism apparantley.

Not strictly true. She requested a taxi and asked specifically not to be sent a Muslim/Indian person as a guy in a Turban would have scared her 14 year old daughter.

Aren't turbans more of a sikh thing? Although I suppose the whole things a bit wtf so it's not really a key point.

Sorry, my mistake she said Asian person. I did actually know Sikh's wear Turbans as one of my best mates in Scotland was a Sikh. report below.

A BBC radio presenter has been replaced over allegedly racist comments made during an off-air phone conversation.

Sam Mason, who took over the BBC Radio Bristol weekday afternoon programme six weeks ago, was suspended on Friday.

She was informed by station bosses on Saturday that she would no longer be working for the BBC.

According to The Sun newspaper, Miss Mason allegedly told a Bristol taxi firm "not to send an Asian driver to pick up her daughter".

The Sun said Miss Mason, 40, told a cab operator: "A guy with a turban on is going to freak her out."

Worker 'outraged'

When her request was refused, she is alleged to have said: "You've managed it before."

The taxi worker was said to be outraged and recorded the conversation, passing a copy to The Sun.

Miss Mason is reported to have called the taxi firm off-air as she played a song on her afternoon show.

A transcript of the conversation, published in The Sun, records how she ordered a taxi to take her 14-year-old from her Clifton house to her grandparents' home.

A BBC spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."

Sam Mason was not immediately available for comment

I can kind of see where the lady is coming from

I had to get a taxi on my own a couple of weekends ago and the first taxi in the queue was a a man not of English descent!!

Im not going to lie I was too scared to get in his taxi on my own - There was no female driver around so a policeman directed me to a taxi driver who was well known and trusted by the police in the end

Erm, WTF? I could understand if you were concerned about getting a taxi with a male driver on your own but why was his race relevant in any way whatsoever?

Paki's are scary to women.

Maybe it's a personal thing.  I couldn't give a monkeys if the driver was British or not, just as long as they could drive properly, but if someone doesn't feel at ease with a driver because of their nationality/race of driver, is that really wrong?  So what if JFW felt uncomfortable?  They can't help the way they feel.

The policeman told me alot of the foreign speaking taxi drivers are unlicensed and you hear storys of girls being took off and raped and stuff. I know I shouldnt be more scared of Asian/Polish etc drivers but I am.
Whenever you hear bad stuff in the press its always about naughty foreign people

Right, because there's no English rapists/murderers are there? Jesus.

NO!!! I didnt mean it like that - There are horrible people in all races Im well aware of that

I guess I shouldnt have said anything! but its just the way I feel - When you get it banged in your head about personal safety all the time and even the policeman told me not to get in the taxis with foreign drivers it makes you not sure what you are supposed to think.

If anyone's likely to believe what they read in the Mail...

i wouldn't want my kids getting in a taxi alone at all.
i can see why the woman requested what she did.hardly a sackable offence.
maybe she was ott but was only looking out for her child.
the worlds gone mad with stuff to find that offends someone or another.

I wouldn't send my kids alone by taxi either, but my kids are 6 and 4, this woman's daughter was 14. If she doesn't feel safe sending her 14-year old daughter alone by taxi then fair enough, I can understand that, but the race of the driver has absolutely f**k all to do with it. If she was that bloody concerned maybe she should have picked her daughter up herself.

maybe there have been crimes in the area involving asian taxi drivers?
we dont know the facts.i'm not defending her,i can just see why she did what she did.
the race of a driver doesn't concern me either.alot of em white, black, green, or fucking sky blue pink drive like cunts

Don't think I'm having a go, we've all got our own opinions and feelings, but what would you have done if it had been the ONLY taxi ?

paul, are you calling jesus a rapist?

I'm not defending the racist (JFW) but she's only admitting to the way she felt at that time, after being warned by a copper about "dodgy" foreign taxi drivers.  What's up with the Spanish (sorry to scare you JFW ;-) ) Inquisition?

Jeez her a break.

being totally honest - I wouldnt have got in it - I would have gone back to the pub and waited till my other mates came home.

Ultimately she’s a paying customer, so she’s entitled to ask for something that she is happy with, it doesn’t matter how bigoted or ignorant you, me or anyone else thinks she may be, she is still entitled to her views and to ask for a taxi service she feels comfortable with.

It is a pretty sad state of our society that a grown woman should be scared to get into a taxi these days. Unfortunately there are nutters all over the place, regardless of creed or race.

Hmmmn going on from another story in the news today, maybe we should ban foreign taxi drivers then, as if JFW is anything to go by their very existence is adding to the binge drinking problem that, according to the press, is plaguing our nation.

Maybe it was a typo paul? maybe you meant papist?

charlotte is a fucking racist bitch :)

according to Jan a binge drinking racist bitch!

you lot try being a girl for a day and see what its like!!!

i would just sit around feeling my tits and fingering myself all day

If I was confident I could kick seven shades of shit out of the bugger if he tried anything, I'd get in no matter what race he was. JFW's very slight of frame so I understand her caution about this. Bet she just wanted to go back to the pub though  ;)

The Policeman commended me on my personal safety awareness!! I was actually sober on this evening and was leaving early as I had to work in the morning which probably adds to my fussyness on the evening

That should be your new description thing under your user name!!  Quality!

Ill change it now!  ;D

Oh can we still change it ourselves?? didnt Ben take over?

To be fair, it sounds like the copper was more at fault than JFW as it was he who set her off on the road of "Oooh, wouldn't trust those dodgy foreign drivers if I were you, love, rape you soon as look at you they would". Of course as a lone woman you have to be aware of personal safety (including making sure the cab is licensed) but tbh that kind of racist crap makes you less safe as it makes you complacent about whole shedloads of blokes who are just as likely to be a threat (more so statistically as there's more of them) because they're the "right" race.

a lady driver would always be my first preference anyway - They are about 5 in Chippenham so its not normally a problem

I won't get in a taxi with a white driver because they're quite often racist.

If you get a cab from a reputable taxi firm and the taxi number is displayed on the back of the taxi you should be ok. If you're really unsure all licensed cabbies display their license in the cab.

Of course, the problem with that is they all look the same.

What, the driver or the cars?  :doh:

Do they have unlicensed cabs in Swindon?  There's normally a rape a week up here because of a drunken lone woman getting in an unlicensed cab, and yes, those are normally foreign drivers.

Perhaps its the couple of beers I have had but top work John

Made I larf

 :D

Racist!!

I meant black cabs. Oh wait, that sounds awfully racist.

Anyway, if you phoned V Cars and you got an unlicensed cabbie, I should expect they would get a rather large fine for doing so. Which is really the point of the story, we're not talking about hailing a cab off the street.

Incidentally, I caught a black cab outside Tescos in the early hours once. When he dropped me at the bottom of my road I asked him how much I owed him. It was then he told me I had already paid and 'here is my special number if you ever get stuck for a cab' as he handed over a receipt with a mobile number on it.

Needless to say I got the hell out of there rather quick. I even took the trouble of walking away from my house until I was sure he'd driven out of my road, before pegging it back into my house. The moral of the story is, never hail a cab from outside Tesco.

Many years ago when I were a lad, me and my mate got slaughtered and ordered a taxi to pick us up outside the Wheaty in Old Town. A car pulled up and we got in and we told hom to go to Park South where I lived at the time. Anyway we got there and I asked him how much we owed him and he said nothing and that he wasn't a taxi. We asked him why he let us get in the car - he said he couldn't stop us and he was scred shitless so he thugoht he'd better do as we said.

Are you a Paki, chalkies_shorts?

No, I'm a Bog Wog to be sure.

No it doesn't, they really ARE black...

I got in a taxi with a english driver who went on to slate the polish and how these illiterate non english speaking people are taking all the drivers jobs. After telling him my wife is polish and that any man who is replaced at work by these people must clearly be a retard and should be aiming higher in life he shut up

Even DRS's polish wife would have spotted the irony in my post(s).

She isn't polish, wish she was

Mwahahaha

Gaunts been sacked

I went through a phase of posting on the Daily Mail forum. I posted a story about immigrants receiving a christmas decoration allowance so that they could feel part of the festive celebrations. There was much wailing a gnashing of teeth. The moderator emailed me asking me for more info to back up the story. All this despite the government spokesman being called Mr P.Enis. I did another one about a bungalow getting a form of structural cancer and undergoing a kind of chemotherapy treatment that caused all its tiles to fall out. They'll believe any old shit.

Ha ha, that's good Spacey!!

I'm going to make two points only:

1. If you're getting into a cab at night on your own and you're a woman then either make sure you get a minicab that you've booked yourself over the phone or make sure you get a licenced black cab and check the fucking licence. That's the personal safety issue sorted as it cuts out any potential unlicenced illegal drivers that will have had no CRB checks, which is what JFW is hinting at when she talks about immigrant drivers). Beyond that your getting into just plain old racial prejudice I'm afraid. Try moving to a big city love and if you won't get into a cab unless the drivers white with an English accent you'll be getting the bus or walking a fuck of a lot.

2. Loads of people on here were dead keen to point out that the idea of "racial profiling" when it came to checks on people around potential terrorist threats wasn't racist it was just sensible. Similarly there's a good few of you who seemed to think that the increased use of stop and search procedures by police on young  black men was acceptable as "racial profiling" indicated that a lot of street crime was carried out by this group.

Well guess what? Paedophilia, abductions and rapes of young girls as an offence has got a racial and age profile as well. And it's middle aged white men. Exactly the sort of person that stupid bitch in Bristol wanted to drive her 14 yr old daughter home.

You guys need to cut JFW some slack.  The truth of the matter is SOME asians treat women with a little less respect/dignity than other, struggling for a word here that wont offend anyone, can't finf one, so here goes, other races.
There done it.  I'm well aware there is good and bad in all societys but some asians can be alittle curt when talking to women.

Be safe JFW.  Follow your instincts.

Thats OK - Im not going to apologise for how I feel

I may not be able to get across my point as eloquantly (sp) as some - but hey look at the big debate I started!

Tell that the victims of Asian (Muslim) Paedo rings in the Bradford area. Doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Yeah and white people also mug people, and not all the london bombers were asian or middle eastern, and the bomber in the Brighton cafe was white.

Racial profiles are not exclusive, they are an indication of the general trend.

That was my point. What the fuck was yours exactly?

The asians Ironside is talking about, are grooming young white, non muslim girls into a life of prostatution, based in the north.  In London it's WEst Indians that have the corner in this market. These aren't your average kiddie fiddlers, as organised crime.

To put it bluntly, you're a cunt.

That is all.

What a cogent argument.

Thank fuck your good opinion isn't something I value that highly otherwise I'd be destroyed.

Can someone ban ironside please?

I checked for Lumps on the BNP members list. He isn't on it so I think he's not.

Why? It's not like anyone's going to be swayed by his....erm....arguments.

Gaunt is right nob, but he had a point in the "debate" where he called this counciller a nazi

Does anyone have a BNP application form handy?

Much obliged.

I dont know? i now know lumps is a cunt :)

Oi!

Right can a mod delete that shit I put on the organ donation thread. The fucker can rinse his own piss through a sponge for all I care!

Why? because I have different political viewpoint? Does that not make you a fascist?

Yeah we're gonna ban Dave after.

Rod Lucas has been kicked out of talkSport after his name appeared on the BNP list: so that's one gone for calling someone a Nazi, and one for being a Nazi. Wonder who's having a worse week, talkSport or the BNP? I reckon the BNP are ahead on points

JFW, if you went on holiday to India, or any other Asian country for that matter, would you get in a taxi?

FWIW, most of the Polish guys driving seem pretty decent chaps (although my views are often clouded by drink) filling a blindingly obvious need that meant for years in Towns like Swindon you'd have queues over an hour long waiting for a taxi in Town at 2am.

Getting in an unlicensed Cab is clearly a bad thing too do, you may as well be Hitcthiking, which hopefully was the point the copper was trying to make.

In London these days, you be walking a lot because you'd encounter the same problem on the bus service.  Too much fear these days, some would think we've had centuries of good behaviour.  Wasn't that long ago we were sending kids into fix the machines before they'd have their limbs lopped off for their efforts when succesfull.

jim rosenthal is in trouble now for calling tessa sanderson a 'spear chucker.'

Thats tessa sanderson the javelin thrower

i thought that was ages ago?

Well i've only just heard about it. it would seem to be quite old news though

If Jim had called Danny Williams a spear chucker this would obviously have been a reference to his race. However, as he was referring to a javelin thrower it's pretty clear it was just a thougthless choice of words. I think the question you have to ask yourself is "would Jim have described Steve Backley as a spear chucker". My guess is yes and if he had no-one would have thought anything of it. But the phrase is does have those racist conourtations and using it about a black person, even one that made a living chucking spears, is a bit of a gaffe.

How have you only just heard about it when you asked a question in response to the video I posted showing this incident on the 11th Nov.. page 1 of this very thread!!