“Christine Pratt is a habitual whistleblower.
In the past 15 years, she’s sued two multinationals, claiming hundreds of thousands in compensation for alleged discrimination.”
I think the Mail may have just broken Prime Directive 4.
Isn’t the enemy of your enemy meant to be your friend?
Well that must be awkward. I had imagined that the DM would have been all out for this whole bully semantics thing with Bully Brown being splashed everywhere, knives gleaming.
“A.N. WILSON: Sorry, bullies often make the best leaders.”
As soon as I saw the Brown bullying story splashed over the front page of yesterday’s Mail, I suspected that an opinion piece about how “bullies make the best leaders” would soon follow. If there’s one thing the Mail hates more than Gordon Brown, it’s the very idea of bullying help lines.
Jan Moir is disapproving of the ‘tawdry soap opera’ which has been front page Mail news on several occasions recently?? It’s only a soap opera if you make into one you hag.
The Mail hates Brown, Labour, and will really want to be giving their full support to a quite obvious Tory smear campaign (where does Coulson find them?).
At the same time, it hates the compensation culture, and “wimpy” staff crying over “bullying”. They feel bosses have a right to be hard, and people should just grin and bear it.
Who wins? To be fair to them, and I don’t say this often, but at least the Mail has stuck to it’s principles, and gone after this awful woman. Rather than tow the party line.
Since Pratt’s story fell apart yesterday as she backpedalled and said the calls had nothing to do with gordon brown (then claimed it was the – nonexistant – deputy PMs office instead) the newspapers just couldn’t continue to support her and remain remotely credible.
Even the BBC has gone quiet about her… probably in embarrasment at giving her so much airtime without even so much as a google search about the NBH.
Is the Mrs Pratt expose a reflection on the alleged friendship between Paul Dacre and Gordon Brown? It more or less kills the Brown bully story IMO.
“Christine Pratt is a habitual whistleblower.
In the past 15 years, she’s sued two multinationals, claiming hundreds of thousands in compensation for alleged discrimination.”
I think the Mail may have just broken Prime Directive 4.
Isn’t the enemy of your enemy meant to be your friend?
“Dacre’s close relationship with Gordon Brown is … well-established and, according to Brown’s political allies, based on a genuine friendship.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/09/paul-dacre-daily-mail
Well that must be awkward. I had imagined that the DM would have been all out for this whole bully semantics thing with Bully Brown being splashed everywhere, knives gleaming.
“A.N. WILSON: Sorry, bullies often make the best leaders.”
Live and learn, etc…
As soon as I saw the Brown bullying story splashed over the front page of yesterday’s Mail, I suspected that an opinion piece about how “bullies make the best leaders” would soon follow. If there’s one thing the Mail hates more than Gordon Brown, it’s the very idea of bullying help lines.
Jan Moir is disapproving of the ‘tawdry soap opera’ which has been front page Mail news on several occasions recently?? It’s only a soap opera if you make into one you hag.
Rock meet hard place.
The Mail hates Brown, Labour, and will really want to be giving their full support to a quite obvious Tory smear campaign (where does Coulson find them?).
At the same time, it hates the compensation culture, and “wimpy” staff crying over “bullying”. They feel bosses have a right to be hard, and people should just grin and bear it.
Who wins? To be fair to them, and I don’t say this often, but at least the Mail has stuck to it’s principles, and gone after this awful woman. Rather than tow the party line.
I think they have called it about right on Pratt; the NBH does not seem to be the national charity it is being made out to be:
http://torytroll.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-are-national-bullying-helpline.html
It seems rather questionable that anyone from No 10 really called them.
Since Pratt’s story fell apart yesterday as she backpedalled and said the calls had nothing to do with gordon brown (then claimed it was the – nonexistant – deputy PMs office instead) the newspapers just couldn’t continue to support her and remain remotely credible.
Even the BBC has gone quiet about her… probably in embarrasment at giving her so much airtime without even so much as a google search about the NBH.