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Arlene Foster suing Dr Christian

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MissyB1 · 14/04/2021 16:26

Apparently he tweeted that she was having an affair (without any proof), and the way he put it was a spiteful little jibe about her being a “sanctity of marriage preaching woman” adding “it always comes back to bite them on the arse”
Now I understand he might have an issue with her as I think she was against same sex marriage. But this man always strikes me as an arrogant twat and a nasty piece of work.

I tried to post the link but I’m such a technophobe! it’s on BBC news website

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Patapouf · 31/05/2021 14:32

I don't like either of them but he has made some particularly nasty remarks about fat woman and I therefore consider him a cunt.

SheldonesqueEstDansLaGalaxie · 31/05/2021 14:45

Can’t really argue too much with that cherub…

TeacupDrama · 31/05/2021 14:45

I think we are all pleased not so much because we agree with Arlene's views but because her victory may make the next woman ( who is less famous with less clout and money) just a bit more likely to win against the next lot of online trolls/ libellers etc
Look how mary beard is / was treated because she had long grey hair, not just comments that she wasn't up to their standards of female physical beauty but because of this she deserved sexual assult rape etc for being an older lady presenting programs about classical history; if she was being factually inaccurate there are avenues to persuee this but male historians rarely get smeared this way for things they didn't do
People complaining online about actual true things people have said that maybe racist sexist or any other -ism or ist is fair enough
so complaining about AF stance on marriage etc is fair enough however making up rumours calling people slags ugly etc because you don't agree with their politics is not really on and libelling people has always been illegal ( it is not libel if it is true) so no one is libelling Boris Johnson by saying he commited adultery because he did but they are libelling AF because she didn't

RoyalCorgi · 31/05/2021 15:00

I just can't get over him saying he hasn't been able to work for a year due to Covid. Hasn't the country been in need of doctors? Why couldn't he go and get a proper job and help out....or am I missing something?

I think he's claiming that his mental health problems render him unable to work.

AppleJane · 31/05/2021 15:02

If he thinks losing was bad wait till he reads the comment section of that DM article. They're handing him his arse.

NiceGerbil · 31/05/2021 15:16

Hasn't he pretty much libelled her again in the mail with his 'if she says it isn't true' thing?

He's still saying it could be true.

What's the matter with him?!!

Tibtom · 31/05/2021 15:21

@NiceGerbil

Hasn't he pretty much libelled her again in the mail with his 'if she says it isn't true' thing?

He's still saying it could be true.

What's the matter with him?!!

That's what I thought.
IheartJKR · 31/05/2021 15:23

@Patapouf

Quite. Cunt indeed.

EmeraldShamrock · 31/05/2021 15:47

I don't like either of them but he has made some particularly nasty remarks about fat woman and I therefore consider him a cunt.
Tbf they're both a cunt who have said and done some dreadful things towards women.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 31/05/2021 16:16

Can he declare himself bankrupt if he has assets in excess of £2 mill? Would he not just be forced to sell one of his flats?

RedToothBrush · 31/05/2021 16:30

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Can he declare himself bankrupt if he has assets in excess of £2 mill? Would he not just be forced to sell one of his flats?
www.moneyexpert.com/debt-management/bankruptcy-and-your-assets/

As part of your bankruptcy order, money will have to be raised to pay off as much of your existing debt as is possible. This will involve the sale of some of your assets.

I believe he could sell his assets himself to avoid liquidators doing it for him.

If liquidators do it, he'll get less money for his assets because they will want a quick sale not the market value of his assets.

So he'd have to be bloody stupid to go down that route.

Tibtom · 31/05/2021 16:32

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Can he declare himself bankrupt if he has assets in excess of £2 mill? Would he not just be forced to sell one of his flats?
If he declares himself bankrupt them they will look at all his assets and income too. Disposing of assets before declaring himself bankrupt could also be a criminal offence. If he has assets to that value it would be a pretty stupid/pointless thing to do.
ScreamingMeMe · 31/05/2021 16:34

[quote ArabellaScott]Exhibit A - perhaps the first time I read a DM article that many of my leftie friends had furiously denounced, and thought - hold on.

Do be sure to scroll all the way down, not just stop at the opening 'angry holidaymakers' paras.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099736/Holidaymakers-misery-boat-people-Syria-Afghanistan-seeking-asylum-set-migrant-camp-turn-popular-Greek-island-Kos-disgusting-hellhole.html[/quote]
Ah yes I see what you mean. Draw them in with outrage, then hit them with the awful, tragic stories from the migrant people.

ArabellaScott · 31/05/2021 17:07

Yes, precisely, Screaming. I thought it was very cleverly done. Especially when you know how a readership usually leans. Hook them with the relatable outrage 'my hols were ruined' then slowly give it over to more and more devastating stories, until everyone is just left hollow eyed and shocked and sympathetic. The comments demonstrated how it worked, too.

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MissyB1 · 31/05/2021 17:26

Has he ever actually worked as an NHS GP? I presume he must have? Apparently he’s not registered as a GP now, so how does he practice his private medicine?

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CovidCorvid · 31/05/2021 17:31

@MissyB1

Has he ever actually worked as an NHS GP? I presume he must have? Apparently he’s not registered as a GP now, so how does he practice his private medicine?
I’m not sure ...iirc he was really quite young when he started on embarrassing bodies....I think too young to have completed vts training. I always had the impression he’d done med school year, done a year of junior house officer and then never done any proper doctoring again. I could be wrong.
Tibtom · 31/05/2021 17:37

@MissyB1

Has he ever actually worked as an NHS GP? I presume he must have? Apparently he’s not registered as a GP now, so how does he practice his private medicine?
Being a GP is several years training - it is a specialist role just like other specialist registrars/consultants. I am not sure how much if any extra training (once fully registered as a doctor) is required in private practice on the uk - I dread to imagine
CovidCorvid · 31/05/2021 17:38

Ok, he graduated in 2001. Embarrassing bodies started in 2007. So 6 year gap.

Foundation training after meeting school is 2 years, gp speciality training is 3 years. So it’s possible he crammed it in. But his wiki page says he spent 2 years working in Africa and also has studied for an msc (doesn’t say if full time or part time study). So I can’t see how he’s ever been a registered GP unless he completed his training after Embarassing bodies.....and I don’t see how as it’s full on training and he’s done a lot of tv work every year since then.

Mrsmorton · 31/05/2021 17:49

Two things.

He has apparently never done any specialty training so as an NHS doc, he would be paid the same as someone 2 years out of Med school.

I absolutely commend the judgement. It's an easy read at 39 pages and is an eloquent summary of why you shouldn't be a knob.

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MissyB1 · 31/05/2021 18:03

OK I presume he must be registered with the GMC though to practice as any kind of Dr.

an eloquent summary of why you shouldn’t be a knob
Ha brilliant!

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 31/05/2021 18:10

I could be wrong but I believe anyone with a medical degree can practise privately. Specialist training is required to work in the NHS as a GP or as a consultant. NHS also has locums who are not fully trained to consultant level but limited in what they are allowed to do, I think.

iklboo · 31/05/2021 18:19

@MissyB1 - yes, he's definitely GMC registered with a licence to practise.

dianebrewster · 31/05/2021 18:46

@Bouledeneige

Pretty surprised that a feminism board would be so wholeheartedly supportive of Arlene Foster. Apart from being personally embroiled in the green energy saga and mis-spending claims, she was leader of the party that led the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign in the 1970s, which opposes gay marriage and is against abortion except for in the few cases of life ending disabilities. Okay a few of their policies may have been cosmetically softened under her leadership but she's not someone I'd want to be in alliance with. Very shocked.
"“Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore. It doesn't matter who the individual women are. They all have the same vulnerability to rape, to battery, as children to incest. Poorer women have more vulnerability to prostitution, which is basically a form of sexual exploitation that is intolerable in an egalitarian society, which is the society we are fighting for.” Andrea Dworkin.

This is what many liberal feminist have forgotten.

A misogynistic man tried to rubbish a woman's reputation by propagating a lie about her, a lie about sexual misconduct. Whether you agree with her politics or not, this is a feminist issue.

AlfonsoTheMango · 31/05/2021 21:13

@Bouledeneige wrote: Pretty surprised that a feminism board would be so wholeheartedly supportive of Arlene Foster.

How very dare Arlene Forster, that big ol' meanie, sue Jessen for libel? Everyone knows she's a villain so therefore people should be able to say whatever they want about her, even though it's not true.

C8H10N4O2 · 01/06/2021 08:25

The TImes' moderation team must have been in overdrive on their version of his "poor me" article. Up until half an hour ago only one comment had been approved and that was suggestion that drunk tweeting was never a good idea!

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