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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 51,207
    edited June 9
    Jordan speaks a lot of sense in this. From about 6:25

    https://youtu.be/00qUu9fE0vU?si=0a5yQuQtu6hdLJ2G
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,314
    I’m not saying this makes it right in any way, shape or form but, as a female, I find it hard to believe that woman going into the glamour model industry didn’t know this sort of thing went on. There was plenty of it in the bloody civil service at that time! ‘Sleeping your way to the top’. 
    Like I say, it doesn’t make it right, but I think there was a level of choice to be made before going for a job like that. And for those under 16, as has already been said, where were their parents in this?
    It’s alleged he locked them in a room and forced them to have sex. That’s not sleeping your way to the top, it’s rape. 
    Like I said twice - it doesn’t make it right. BUT considering what it was like back then it seems odd to imagine someone thinking of a career in glamour modelling would be that naive

  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 15,137
    edited June 9
    I’m not saying this makes it right in any way, shape or form but, as a female, I find it hard to believe that woman going into the glamour model industry didn’t know this sort of thing went on. There was plenty of it in the bloody civil service at that time! ‘Sleeping your way to the top’. 
    Like I say, it doesn’t make it right, but I think there was a level of choice to be made before going for a job like that. And for those under 16, as has already been said, where were their parents in this?
    It’s alleged he locked them in a room and forced them to have sex. That’s not sleeping your way to the top, it’s rape. 
    That wasn't alleged in the programme was it? Genuine question as half watched it on train this morning.

    What i saw in programme was him asking for sex etc and saying he'd help them career wise if so and whilst creepy as fuck (and exploitative given power dynamic) it wasn't alleged he "forced it" in the panorama...or was it? 

    As i say, was only half watching so genuinely asking.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 51,207
    I’m not saying this makes it right in any way, shape or form but, as a female, I find it hard to believe that woman going into the glamour model industry didn’t know this sort of thing went on. There was plenty of it in the bloody civil service at that time! ‘Sleeping your way to the top’. 
    Like I say, it doesn’t make it right, but I think there was a level of choice to be made before going for a job like that. And for those under 16, as has already been said, where were their parents in this?
    It’s alleged he locked them in a room and forced them to have sex. That’s not sleeping your way to the top, it’s rape. 
    That wasn't alleged in the programme was it? Genuine question as half watched it on train this morning.

    What i saw in programme was him asking for sex etc and whilst creepy as fuck (and exploitative given power dynamic) it wasn't alleged he "forced it" in the panorama or was it? 

    As i say, was only half watching so genuinely asking.
    It was suggested he tried to force it.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,929
    I’m not saying this makes it right in any way, shape or form but, as a female, I find it hard to believe that woman going into the glamour model industry didn’t know this sort of thing went on. There was plenty of it in the bloody civil service at that time! ‘Sleeping your way to the top’. 
    Like I say, it doesn’t make it right, but I think there was a level of choice to be made before going for a job like that. And for those under 16, as has already been said, where were their parents in this?
    It’s alleged he locked them in a room and forced them to have sex. That’s not sleeping your way to the top, it’s rape. 
    That wasn't alleged in the programme was it? Genuine question as half watched it on train this morning.

    What i saw in programme was him asking for sex etc and whilst creepy as fuck (and exploitative given power dynamic) it wasn't alleged he "forced it" in the panorama or was it? 

    As i say, was only half watching so genuinely asking.
    It’s in a lot of the BBC News reporting around this directly from the victims. 
  • Ok thanks for the clarification. Wrong un. 
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,314
    Jordan speaks a lot of sense in this. From about 6:25

    https://youtu.be/00qUu9fE0vU?si=0a5yQuQtu6hdLJ2G
    It’s worth listening to this. Times were like this 40 years ago and must be seen in this context. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,446
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,314
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    That doesn’t sound very ‘historical’
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,336
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    And Baroness Brady knew nothing about it?!

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,776
    Brady's wiki page is an interesting read. She has had a number of interesting jobs with some interesting 'gentlemen'
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,929
    Bloke is a wrong ‘un. Simple as. And that’s being kind. 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,546
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    And Baroness Brady knew nothing about it?!
    Karren Brady was a different type of woman to all those we saw in Panorama. Secure family background, utterly ruthless about building a career, a rat up a drain type salesperson. That was the picture painted to me by people on the media side of the ad agency biz I worked in when she got the  Birmingham gig. They are the source of the snooker table thing, which of course may just be legend, but it refers to when she first met him aged 19 while flogging ad space at LBC. In Panorama it's suggested that exercising power was what motivated Sullivan to seek such joyless sexual encounters with those young victims. Brady was different gravy, you could say she turned the tables on him😉

    But that begs the question for me, why only now, dear Baroness? Because of course you knew. You also knew how to handle it and turn it to your advantage.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,446
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    And Baroness Brady knew nothing about it?!
    Probably didn’t participate in bring your daughter to work days.
  • Carter said:
    Amazing how Baroness Brady is keeping her name out of all this. I haven’t seen the Panorama programme -did she get a mention even in passing? 
    Thats astonishing levels of blissful ignorance on her part. I've said for years to anyone who will listen to me that she has gotten where she has by tagging onto some incredibly unsavoury people 
    And hobnobbing with Birmingham players under her charge! I think they are still married.
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,367
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    And Baroness Brady knew nothing about it?!
    Karren Brady was a different type of woman to all those we saw in Panorama. Secure family background, utterly ruthless about building a career, a rat up a drain type salesperson. That was the picture painted to me by people on the media side of the ad agency biz I worked in when she got the  Birmingham gig. They are the source of the snooker table thing, which of course may just be legend, but it refers to when she first met him aged 19 while flogging ad space at LBC. In Panorama it's suggested that exercising power was what motivated Sullivan to seek such joyless sexual encounters with those young victims. Brady was different gravy, you could say she turned the tables on him😉

    But that begs the question for me, why only now, dear Baroness? Because of course you knew. You also knew how to handle it and turn it to your advantage.
    Until now. I wonder if  this is the reason why she resigned recently??.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,295
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    And Baroness Brady knew nothing about it?!
    Karren Brady was a different type of woman to all those we saw in Panorama. Secure family background, utterly ruthless about building a career, a rat up a drain type salesperson. That was the picture painted to me by people on the media side of the ad agency biz I worked in when she got the  Birmingham gig. They are the source of the snooker table thing, which of course may just be legend, but it refers to when she first met him aged 19 while flogging ad space at LBC. In Panorama it's suggested that exercising power was what motivated Sullivan to seek such joyless sexual encounters with those young victims. Brady was different gravy, you could say she turned the tables on him😉

    But that begs the question for me, why only now, dear Baroness? Because of course you knew. You also knew how to handle it and turn it to your advantage.
    Until now. I wonder if  this is the reason why she resigned recently??.
    No shit Sherlock.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,763
    What’s the snooker table story?


  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,477
    MrOneLung said:
    What’s the snooker table story?


    Oh please dont
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,691
    JohnBoyUK said:
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    And Baroness Brady knew nothing about it?!
    Karren Brady was a different type of woman to all those we saw in Panorama. Secure family background, utterly ruthless about building a career, a rat up a drain type salesperson. That was the picture painted to me by people on the media side of the ad agency biz I worked in when she got the  Birmingham gig. They are the source of the snooker table thing, which of course may just be legend, but it refers to when she first met him aged 19 while flogging ad space at LBC. In Panorama it's suggested that exercising power was what motivated Sullivan to seek such joyless sexual encounters with those young victims. Brady was different gravy, you could say she turned the tables on him😉

    But that begs the question for me, why only now, dear Baroness? Because of course you knew. You also knew how to handle it and turn it to your advantage.
     :D:D:D  

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  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 2,014
    Sullivan has been banned from any contact with the West Ham women’s team and under age teams for the last three years. It has emerged today.
    That doesn’t sound very ‘historical’
    From the BBC website article it sounds like it was the historical allegations that led to the safeguarding team banning him from contact with the women and the kids. Safeguarding issues are generally kept pretty quiet, but you have to tell senior people because you have to make sure they don't organise events that break the safeguarding arrangements. So Brady may not have known the details but there's no way she didn't know there was an issue.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,691
    MrOneLung said:
    What’s the snooker table story?


    I doubt that those who "know" are going to post it on here. 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,160

    The BBC presenter Tony Livesey is to “step back” from his radio show after allegations were raised about his previous career as the editor-in-chief of David Sullivan’s Sport Newspapers.


     Yeah his prior high profile career and autobiography would never have been discovered or known by the BBC had Panorama not made this. 

    Something more to it all than what was shown last night surely as his implication in the programme was literally in his autobiography/ book back in 1998.
    Exactly. Remember a documentary about the Sport with him as editor. I worked for a double glazing company at the time. I was thinking that I didn't quite fit into the scene.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,697
    Carter said:
    Amazing how Baroness Brady is keeping her name out of all this. I haven’t seen the Panorama programme -did she get a mention even in passing? 
    Thats astonishing levels of blissful ignorance on her part. I've said for years to anyone who will listen to me that she has gotten where she has by tagging onto some incredibly unsavoury people 
    Yeah, that's one way to phrase it... 
  • MrOneLung said:
    What’s the snooker table story?


    Apparently he didn't know whether to go for the pink or the brown?
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,691
    MrOneLung said:
    What’s the snooker table story?


    Apparently he didn't know whether to go for the pink or the brown?
    Never understood why you get more points for the pink  :#
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,446
    MrOneLung said:
    What’s the snooker table story?


    Apparently he didn't know whether to go for the pink or the brown?
    Never understood why you get more points for the pink  :#
    It’s always hard to earn brownie points.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 19,232
    MrOneLung said:
    What’s the snooker table story?


    Apparently he didn't know whether to go for the pink or the brown?
    ..and whether it was Ok to lick the chocolate fingers on offer :D
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,929
    Karren Brady stayed at West Ham despite knowing of Sullivan women's team ban https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0me8p579ko